MO’S THE KOP HERO

FROM BACK PAGE dreaming of next week repeating their 3-0 home win over Barcelona in the quarter-finals.

Salah had Anfield buzzing with two sublime finishes before half-time and Liverpool were five goals up before Roma’s late surge gave them hope.

Reds boss Jurgen Klopp bemoaned the loss of the two late goals but refused to let that take the shine off “a fantastic result”.

The German said: “Perfect performance for pretty much 80 minutes or so. We made defensively one mistake.

“Penalty is not a penalty but that is the situation and now it is 5-2. Of course we would have been more happy with 5-0 or 5-1 but 5-2 is a fantastic result. We go there and try again.

“We had all these runs behind, it changed the game completely and they couldn’t cope with that. We scored these goals and could have scored more.

“That is all positive, at this moment it doesn’t feel all positive because they scored these two goals but tomorrow I will see the really good part of the game.

“It is absolutely better than I thought before the game but at the moment of course a little mistake.”

Another sour note for Liverpool on an otherwise memorable night was a bad injury to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain that may have wrecked his World Cup dream.

The England midfielder was stretchered off after damaging knee ligaments and Anfield medics fear he has suffered a serious tear.