Mohamed Salah, Emre Can and Daniel Sturridge on target as Jurgen Klopp’s men dispatch Maribor at Anfield

Liverpool edged closer to qualifying for the Champions League knockout stages with a workmanlike 3-0 win over Maribor. Jurgen Klopp’s side are hardly charging towards their target – despite the 7-0 thrashing of the Slovenians a fortnight ago – and this match reflected their incremental progress in Group E. Back-to-back wins over the Slovenians, courtesy of leading scorer Mohamed Salah’s 10th of the season, a classy Emre Can goal and a late Daniel Sturridge strike, mean they lead Sevilla by a point and victory in Spain in three weeks’ time will see the Reds qualify with a match to spare. They could even afford another squandered missed penalty, a fourth in succession at Anfield, as James Milner missed his second in a row having scored his first 10 for the club. After their previous battering in Slovenia ther...