Klopp: We saw today how well the front three can play

Liverpool produced a performance that no one associated with the club will forget in a hurry.

A 7-0 win against your fiercest rivals is the stuff that dreams are made of and there were many positives to come out of the historic result, some which will have long terms benefits.

As we know, the iconic front three come the end of this season will be down to one original member in Mo Salah.

The big question mark in a season of transition has been whether the players brought in in recent times could fill the boots of Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino.

Luis Diaz has showed in his time at the club that he has the qualities to do just tha,t but his campaign has unfortunately been wrecked by injury.

It has meant since the turn of the New Year that Salah has looked to develop a connection with Darwin Nunez and January signing Cody Gakpo.

It has been anything but smooth sailing since he joined with Liverpool suffering a couple of humbling defeats and questions raised if the young star from PSV was a good fit for the club at this point of time.

Meanwhile, Nunez was never brought purely for the present moment, his rawness has been evident at times, but it is just as clear that when he puts it all together, he will be an absolute nightmare for defenders.

But as a horror January turned into February, there were just a few signs that the trio were starting to gel.

But no one in their wildest dreams would have thought they would have combined for six goals in a marquee fixture, but that is exactly what occurred and they made their manager very proud as the Echo reported.

"It was one of the best performances for a long, long time, in a way I think everybody saw how good the boys could be.

“Nobody was in doubt about Darwin’s future impact when he settles because he is a real force of nature.

“But Cody plays in the most difficult area in the pitch against a man-marking side which is super tricky. How he keeps himself on the feet and has the overview for everyone else.

“Mo is Mo. You could see today, and the other night against Wolves, that having Diogo back is super important that we can give the other boys breaks here and there.”

There were notable performances all over the pitch from the veteran pairing of Jordan Henderson and Fabinho, to the youngster Harvey Elliott who arguably produced one of the more astute performances of his young career.

And Klopp wanted to give special mention to Andy Robertson who is so often the barometer for the team in big games and once again set the ball rolling with a wonderful assist for Gakpo’s opener.

“Look, that’s a top situation. I think everybody saw how good Kostas is in the last game, he had a real impact and set up a super goal. But Robbo is Robbo and he had now 90 minutes’ break and I thought he benefited from that today. It was a top performance, like really a flying Scotsman performance!”