Liverpool, recently a club in complete crisis, moved within three points of the top four with a 7-0 thrashing of rivals Manchester United at Anfield on Sunday.
Jurgen Klopp’s side, who led by a single goal at half-time, let off the handbrake after the restart and went on a rampage, scoring six more goals without reply in front of the Kop to equal United’s heaviest defeat in the club’s history. (The last was a 7-0 loss to Wolves in December 1931.)
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Indeed, it was Liverpool’s biggest win in the rivalry, which has been going on since 1894 and nearly 250 matches. The Reds have outscored United 18-1 in their last eight matches at Anfield, scoring four or more goals in each of the last five.
Such matches are usually tense, tight and contested, so witnessing a one-sided and high-scoring game is always surprising, but Liverpool’s 7-0 thrashing of United compares with the biggest scores in major local derbies and games in history. Rivalry between Europe’s top clubs?
A memorable day.
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Manchester derby
Greatest score: Manchester City 6-1 Manchester United (1925-26 and 2011-12)
First contested in 1881, United have been on the wrong end of two of the biggest points in Manchester derby history, with City winning both occasions 85 years apart. United beat City 7-1 at Maine Road in 1941, but that match was part of the War League (replacing the Football League, which was suspended during the Second World War) and was not registered as an official competitive match.
North London Derby
Greatest score: Tottenham Hotspur 0-6 Arsenal (1934-35)
Arsenal and Tottenham have played 193 times since the first Football League meeting in 1909. Since then, the Gunners have won 81 times and Spurs have won 61 times (with 51 draws), but the worst result on record has seen the former defeat their neighbours. Their curtain in the mid-1930s. In recent years, 2012 was another good year for the Gunners after they beat their old foes 5-2 at the Emirates in the space of nine months.
Madrid derby
Greatest scores: Real Madrid 6-3 Atlético Madrid (1949-50), Real Madrid 3-6 Atlético Madrid (1950-51)
A fierce rivalry dating back to the early 1900s, the two highest-scoring Madrid derbies followed in quick succession before Atlético regained the advantage in LaLiga the following season with a 6-3 win over Real Atlético in the 1950 Copa del Rey quarter-final first leg. . The biggest win in an official match between the two sides came in 1919, when Real beat their cross-town rivals 5-0 at the Campeonato Regional Center in the long-defunct competition between clubs from the Castilian region of Spain.
Classic
Greatest score: Real Madrid 11-1 Barcelona (1942-43)
The biggest winning margin Classic It came during the 1942-43 Spanish Cup when Real beat their Catalan rivals by 10 goals. The biggest win since the turn of the millennium was Barca’s 5-0 thrashing of Jose Mourinho’s beleaguered side at Camp Nou in November 2010. famous”Small hand“teasing From Gerard Pique.
Milan derby
Greatest result: Inter Milan 6-5 AC Milan (1949-50)
Since 1909, there have been 235 official iterations Derby della Madonna In the following years, “Inter” won the lead (87 compared to Milan’s 79). A famous meeting at the San Siro in 1949 produced the most goals in a single derby match (11 in total), but the biggest win came in May 2001 with two goals from Gianni Comandini and Andriy Shevchenko. Rossoneri They beat their opponents in the A series with a score of 6:0.
Derby d’Italia
Biggest Score: Juventus 9-1 Inter Milan (Season 1960-61)
At the most tense of the simmering rivalry between Juventus and Inter, the former won in what looked to be a 10-goal extravaganza at the Stadio Comunale, with the great Omar Sivori netting six times for the hosts. .
However, it is worth noting that Inter fielded their youth team in Turin in protest of a controversial decision by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Indeed, the game was a repeat of the one that had to be abandoned earlier in the season when Juve fans stormed the pitch en masse. The FIGC initially awarded three points to Inter with a 2-0 win, only to allow a subsequent appeal by Juventus (which may or may not have had anything to do with the fact). Bianconeri President Umberto Agnelli also served as FIGC chairman at the time.)
Classic
Biggest score: Bayern: 11-1 Borussia Dortmund (1971-72)
In 1965, with the first match in the newly formed Bundesliga, Classic it’s one of the youngest derby rivalries in European football, yet it simmers with the same territorial ferocity. of 132 officials classic has been playing since, Bayern has won 65; That’s twice as many wins as Dortmund (32). The most remarkable was the 11-goal elimination in the early 1970s.
Classic
Biggest scores: Paris Saint-Germain 5-1 Marseille (1977-78), Marseille 1-5 Paris Saint-Germain (2016-17)
Another relatively young European competition, first contested in 1971, Paris Saint-Germain have come out on top in both record wins to date. In November 1986, Marseille achieved a four-goal victory with a 4-0 victory over their Parisian rivals in a top-flight match.
