Goals from Thiago Alcantara and Mohamed Salah secured the win for Liverpool in their penultimate Champions League group stage outing on Wednesday night.
MATCH PROCEEDINGS
It was the visitors to Anfield FC Porto who got going on the attacking front and could have taken a well-earned lead through Otavio whose effort went wide of the goal.
Liverpool had an effort of their own which found the back of the net by Sadio Mane but a VAR check deemed the Senegesle to be offside in the build-up to the strike.
Both sides went into the half-time break with the scoreline at nil-nil in a game that was fought on equal footing but could have gone either way.
The home side got hold of the breakthrough early on inside the second period with a wonder strike from Thiago Alcantara making it 1-0 for Jurgen Klopp’s men.
Mohamed Salah doubled the advantage for his 17th goal in as many games as the Egyptian exchanged passes with the skipper Jordan Henderson before netting a beauty of a goal.
The final whistle was soon sounded out which meant a fifth win on the trot in the Champions League group stage for Liverpool who had already booked their spot in the Last-16 of the competition.
