Klopp was all smiles after the amazing result, declaring it the “greatest” day following the victory at Old Trafford.
The Liverpool manager admits he was happy for his players, knowing they’ve made history with this win.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been papering over the cracks so often for Manchester United this season it’s a wonder he doesn’t consider becoming a decorator on his retirement.
But there’s one glaringly obvious fact that even the petulant Portuguese cannot disguise.
In the ranking of the world’s greatest players, he now stands, like everyone else, some distance behind the incredible Mohamed Salah.
The Liverpoo l forward didn’t even have his best game here. Ronaldo, though, got to see up close the kind of devastating finishing that was once his own trademark and earned the Egyptian the first Reds hat-trick at Old Trafford in 85 years.
Salah extended his club record by netting in a 10th successive game and surpassed Didier Drogba to become the highest-scoring African player in the Premier League by moving on to 107 goals, his Liverpool tally in all competitions now 140 in 215 games.
This season alone he has 15 in 12 games including two goal of the season contenders. And this was the first treble by a visiting player at Old Trafford since the original Ronaldo netted three times for Real Madrid in 2003.
The second Ronaldo, meanwhile, had a strike chalked off to huge cheers from the away end having earlier been lucky not to be dismissed for a childish kick at Curtis Jones.
The Ronaldo era is now over. This is Salah’s time on the throne.
Now, about that new contract…
Keita deserves better
And then there were three.
If last season prompted the centre-back lament, this time around Liverpool are in danger of running out of midfielders.
The only real negative from this memorable afternoon was the loss of both James Milner and, more worryingly, Naby Keita through injury, the latter leaving on a stretcher just after the hour with arguably his best Liverpool performance cut short by Paul Pogba’s crude challenge.
Milner lasted less than half that time having been handed a fifth successive Liverpool start for the first time in three years in the absence of the injured Fabinho.
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