LONDON (Reuters) - Liverpool beat Porto 5-0 on Wednesday night at the Drogau Stadium in the Champions League round of 16.
Liverpool moved forward in the quarter-finals with a landslide victory as the Primera Liga side came to a six-goal victory at Anfield in the second leg on March 6.
Senegal striker Sadio Mani scored a hat-trick in the 25th, 53rd and 85th minutes as Egyptian Mohamed Salah scored in the 29th minute and Brazilian Roberto Fermino scored in the 70th minute.
The game was all in one direction under full control by Liverpool and an easy win over the ruins of Porto, who made one of their worst performances in their history in the Champions League.
The start was calm on the side of Porto unexpectedly, and confined to play in the middle of the stadium with a retreat back from the players of Liverpool and continued this situation for a quarter of an hour with a calm pace and lack of danger on both teams.
After a quarter of an hour, Liverpool managed to explore the goal of Porto with a shot away from the keeper and responded to the Portuguese team by a cross by the goalkeeper Carrius and then succeeded Sadio Mani to end the state of fasting goal after 25 minutes with a shot hit the body defenders and reached him again to pay back and stay strong Goalkeeper Jose Sa.
The pressure continued to Liverpool and Mohammed Salah succeeded in leaving his mark and scoring the second goal in favor of the Reds through a shot back to the Egyptian Pharaoh in the area of six yards to elude brilliantly and shakes the net ably in the 29th minute.
Porto tried to get rid of the control of Liverpool and return to the game and already wasted Tekenho try a shot close to the goal with another attempt to cross the ball to end the first half with the superiority of the English team.
Porto coach Sergey Conceesao made his first start at the start of the second half with Jesús Coruna at the expense of Otavio.
Marija missed a chance for Porto but Liverpool quickly responded with a third goal in the 53rd minute by Sadio Mani from a counter-attack led by Mohammed Salah with a magic pass to Fermino to hit the ball to Mani to give it a shot.
The pace of the match slowed down, especially as Liverpool scored a great three-pointer and dominated the game. Porto were joined by Abdelmajid Ouaris at the expense of Algerian Yassin Brahimi in the 62nd minute.
Marija wasted a close attempt to Porto and then another ball away from the dick, and Brazilian Roberto Fermino managed to roll his efforts and score the fourth goal in the 70th minute of a powerful shot brilliantly curled the net to deepen the wounds of Porto.
Porto made their last move with Gonzalo Piacinia at the expense of Tekinho Soares in the 74th minute and pushed Liverpool with Cameroon defender Joel Matip instead of Jordan Henderson.
Liverpool's Juergen Klopp has relaxed his players by pulling out duo Trent Alexandre Arnold and Roberto Fermino and involving Joseph Gomez and Danny Engs 10 minutes from the end.
Sadio Mani did not take pity on Porto's collapse and completed the hat trick with a shot that settled the Portuguese net for a fifth goal in the midst of the club's laughter and the fans of Porto. Carrios made an attempt by the Portuguese side before the match ended with a landslide victory for Liverpool.