Football Corner

Liverpool have tonight recorded their biggest ever Champions League, and indeed the Champions League biggest ever victory by beating Besiktas 8-0 at Anfield. It's hard to believe that this same Liverpool side lost to Besiktas 2-1 only two weeks ago. At times it was like an exhibition match with Liverpool simply destroying the Turkish side in all areas of the field.

Liverpool took the lead after a quarter of an hour when Peter Crouch finished well after having a shot well saved by the Besiktas keeper Arikan. Yossi Benayoun got on the score sheet soon after when he finshed well from the right hand side of the penalty area. Benayoun grabbed a second after the break when got on the end of a John Arne Riise shot which had been saved well by Arikan.

Benayoun got his hat-trick only two minutes later when he once again finished after a Steven Gerrard shot was saved by Arikan and parried into his path. It was 5-0 soon after when captain Gerrard's shot was deflected home into the Besiktas net and he was substituted soon after. Substitute Ryan Babel got in on the act when he finished from close range.

It was 7-0 two minutes later when Babel scored again to send the Kop into raptures. Liverpool finished off the job with two minutes to go when Peter Crouch grabbed his second of the night when he headed home to send the Liverpool faithful home very happy. Obviously this was a great performance by Liverpool but to be fair they were facing a poor Besiktas side.