Rangers 1:7 Liverpool
Match report for the UEFA Champions League Matchday 4

Match Report

Goals: Arfield 17′ – Firmino 24′, Firmino 55′, Nunez 66′, Salah 75′, Salah 80′, Salah 81′, Elliott 87′

Rangers (4-2-3-1): McGregor No.1; Barisic No.31, Davies No.26, Goldson No.6 (King No.38 45′), Tavernier No.2; Lundstram No.4, Jack No. 8 (Davis No.10 60′), Kent No.14 (Wright No.23 76′), Arfield No.37, Sakala No.30 (Matondo No.17 76′); Colak No.9 (Morales No.20 76′)
Unused Substitution: Yilmaz No.3, Sands No.19, McCrorie No.28, McLaughlin No.33, Devine No.44, Tillman No.71
Coach: Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Liverpool (4-4-2): Alisson No.1; Tsimikas No.21 (Robertson No.26 67′), van Dijk No.4, Konate No.5 (Milner No.7 79′), Gomez No.2; Carvalho No.28, Fabinho No.3, Henderson No.14 (Thiago No.6 67′), Elliott No.19; Nunez No.27 (Salah No.11 68′), Firmino No.9 (Jota No.20 73′)
Unused Substitution: Adrian No.13, Bajcetic No.43, Phillips No.47, Kelleher No.62
Coach: Jurgen Klopp

Yellow cards: Gomez 90′

Referee: Slavko Vincic

Stadium: Ibrox (Glasgow, Scotland)

Match highlights

17′. 1:0. Arfield makes a run between Gomez and Konate. Jack finds him on the edge of the box, and midfielder firing the ball beyond Alisson into the bottom corner. Rangers score the first goal in this Champions League campaign.

24′. 1:1. GOAL! Firmino at the near post headed in after Kostas Tsimikas’ corner.

55′. 1:2. GOAL! Gomez gets forward on the right and makes in a perfect lower cross to the back post for Bobby. No. 9 slots the ball beneath McGregor and into the net.

66′. 1:3. GOAL! Firmino flicks it on cleverly to Darwin Nunez who slots it past the keeper first time into the far corner.

75′. 1:4. GOAL! Mo Salah brings down a loose ball in the area and fires across McGregor from a tight angle into the opposite corner.

80′. 1:5. GOAL! Salah takes as many touches as he needs before scores from the edge of the box to bottom corner. Egyptian has now scored more goals (37) than any other African player, for a single club, in the UEFA Champions League proper.

81′. 1:6. GOAL! Salah takes the ball on the right of the box. No.11 opens his body up and bends in a trademark fashion into the far corner. It only took him six minutes and 12 seconds to score three – 75′, 80′ and 81′! Mo Salah scored the fastest Champions League hat-trick at history.

87′. 1:7. GOAL! Harvey buries a rebound from Jota’s shot at the far post but the flag goes up for offside. Mo Salah puts his arms around No.19 neck in anticipation of celebrating the goal. The green light is given for Elliott after VAR. Midfielder Harvey Elliott, scored the first goal in the Champions League.

The Reds won the match convincingly with Mo Salah’s historic hat-trick.

Match Stats

UEFA Champions League Group A Table, Matchday 4