Stunning Liverpool Smash Eight Past Beleaguered Besiktas

Liverpool 8-0 Bestikas

Liverpool made it another memorable night at Anfield by smashing a scintillating eight goals past a bruised Besiktas side, in-effect dominating from the beginning and rescuing their European hopes.

zoom - galleria From a fantastic team performance, midfield schemer Yossi Benayoun stood out with a marvellous hat-trick (32, 53, 68).

Before the Israeli grabbed his trio of goals, Peter Crouch, restored to the starting line-up, opened the rout with a goal at the second time of asking (19).

Then came Benayoun’s goals, followed by a Steven Gerrard deflected goal that put the finish on a lovely piece of build-up play (68).

Dutch youngster Ryan Babel took to the field mid-way through the second-half and quickly added two more, one a cute flick, (78, 81), leaving Crouch to finish a remarkable score-line with a late header (89).

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