The biggest challenge in Liverpool’s Champions League group – as Jürgen Klopp had labelled an away game at Atalanta – proved no challenge at all. It was a demolition, an exhibition, with Diogo Jota’s hat-trick the individual highlight of a collective statement against last season’s quarter-finalists.
Jota became the third Liverpool player after Michael Owen and Sadio Mané to register a hat-trick on the road in Europe in only his fifth start for the club. Mané scored too, as did Mohamed Salah to equal Steven Gerrard’s record of 21 Champions League goals for Liverpool.
