Player Ratings

MAN UNITED (4-2- -1) TEAM AVERAGE .1

DAVID DE GEA 5 Beaten five times and would have been worse without saves from Salah and Alexander-Arnold.

AARON WAN-BISSAKA 2.5 Slow to react for the first goal and went downhill from there. Abject performance.

VICTOR LINDELOF Tied up in knots by Liverpool’s front three. Dragged all over the Old Trafford pitch.

HARRY MAGUIRE 2 Indecision led to second goal and didn’t cover himself in glory after that. Where’s the leadership?

LUKE SHAW 2 Started by playing Salah onside for the first goal and it got worse. Simply couldn’t handle him.

SCOTT McTOMINAY Solskjaer stuck with his ‘McFred’ midfield. They were exposed for the second time this week.

FRED .5

Biggest impression he made was a boot to Keita’s head. Chasing shadows all game.

MARCUS RASHFORD .5 Scuffed a volley in the first half and never got into the game before he was substituted.

BRUNO FERNANDES Guilty of glaring early miss. Would it have made a difference? Maybe but probably not.

MASON GREENWOOD .5 Hooked for Pogba at half-time but it could have been any United player in fairness.

CRISTIANO RONALDO Totally eclipsed by Salah. Frustration boiled over and lashed out at Jones, but got away with yellow.

SUBSTITUTES Pogba 2 (for Greenwood 46min), Dalot 4 (for Rashford 62), Cavani 4 (for Fernandes 62).

OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER 2 Set out to press Liverpool but failed miserably as United capitulated. Utter humiliation.

LIVERPOOL (4- - ) TEAM AVERAGE 7.7

ALISSON 7 Kept himself busy by beating away a drive from Greenwood and denying Ronaldo.

TRENT ALEXANDER-ARNOLD 7 Excellent cross for the second goal. Will never have more freedom at Old Trafford.

IBRAHIMA KONATE 8 Handed only his second Premier League start and handled it superbly. A dominant presence.

VIRGIL VAN DIJK 7.5 Strode through the game without having to get out of first gear. So easy for him.

ANDREW ROBERTSON 7 Vital touch to deny Ronaldo a clear chance in the first half. Didn’t put a foot wrong.

NABY KEITA 8.5 Took his goal well but was carried off following Pogba’s red-card challenge.

JORDAN HENDERSON 8 Commanding display in the middle and produced a sublime pass for the fifth goal.

JAMES MILNER 7 Disappointed to go off injured at 2-0 and no wonder. He was missing a special occasion.

MOHAMED SALAH 9.5 Championed as the world’s best player and proved it emphatically with a hat-trick.

ROBERTO FIRMINO 8 The orchestrator of a fantastic sweeping move for the third goal. Excellent throughout.

DIOGO JOTA 7.5 Selected ahead of Mane and justified the decision by coming up with Liverpool’s second goal.

SUBSTITUTES Jones 7 (for Milner 27), Oxlade-Chamberlain 6.5 (for Keita 64), Mane (for Firmino 77).

JURGEN KLOPP 8 Demonstrated the coaching gulf between himself and Solskjaer in ruthless fashion.