A bulldozer passed by, a volcano exploded and lava fell on top of it, the tsunami came and, although everyone sensed it, no one realized it until they saw it all over their heads.
Liverpool, with its new kindergarten and resting regular starters like Luis Díaz, beat Sparta Prague 6-1 in the second leg of the Europa League round of 16 and dispatched them on aggregate with an unappealable 11-2. Everyone knows in Europe that they can lose if they face Klopp’s men, but is humiliation necessary?
The ‘reds’ didn’t propose it, but they did it because they don’t know how to do anything else, because the job doesn’t go badly when they get together and have fun almost training with their fans.
At 10 minutes Darwin Núñez had already scored with a pass from Szboszlai, Clark on the service of Mohamed Salah and the Egyptian himself for a 3-0 that was already being hit by a train that was only known to be red. Totally unable to get up were the poor Prague boys, who at 14 saw Gakpo’s enter, the fourth of the night.
And the game was almost over. Even when Birmancevic, in the 44th, scored for the visitor, no one felt that the situation would improve after the break.
Because at 48 Szoboszlai would report with his for the fifth and at 55 Gakpo, who inadvertently directed Elliot’s shot towards the goal for 6-1, which was more of a tennis score than a soccer score but which clearly described the abysmal difference between one team and another.
The boys played well again, Salah gained momentum ahead of the duel against Manchester United for the FA Cup and Klopp came to feel somewhat bored with the end of the game, and a mere formality at the end. Liverpool advanced without difficulty and the roster, starting with Díaz, rotated and rested. Nothing to reproach, nothing to add to an unequal duel that the owner of the house, in any case, took absolutely seriously.