With Mohamed Salah rested, Liverpool failed to crack FC Porto in their Champions League last-16 second-leg clash on Tuesday.
The tie was effectively over after Jurgen Klopp’s men ran riot in Portugal, hitting five unreplied goals.
And with Saturday’s game at Manchester United more important, the Reds went through the motions to chalk off a comfortable aggregate win.
It could have been so much better though late on when a Danny Ings header was superbly kept out by Spanish veteran Iker Casillas in the Porto goal.
Although the Reds controlled the tempo, they were simply wasteful without their mercurial Egyptian.
Salah has notched 31 strikes alone and contributed a further nine assists since his switch from AS Roma last summer.
