Liverpool climbed above Stoke City in the Premier League with a 4-1 victory over the Potters at Anfield on Sunday.
Stoke started the match brightly, but they were behind inside eight minutes when James Milner teed up Albert Moreno with a quick free kick and the Spaniard beat Jakob Haugaard with a fierce 20-yard drive across goal.
Peter Crouch then had the ball in the net for the away side, but his header was correctly ruled out for offside.
Daniel Sturridge took aim and fired wide for Liverpool in the 28th minute, but he was soon celebrating after putting the Reds back in front.
Sheyi Ojo was the provider, skipping past him man down the left before crossing for Sturridge to nod home from close range.
Stoke twice went close to levelling before the break, but Ryan Shawcross headed wide and Giannelli Imbula could not beat Simon Mignolet with a shot from 25 yards.
Jurgen Klopp brought on Divock Origi at half time and he had put the Reds 3-1 up within five minutes by heading home a cross from Milner.
Stoke almost halved the deficit shortly after when Geoff Cameron looped a header goalwards that Mignolet acrobatically tipped away.
Origi then somehow missed the target with half the goal to aim at from Moreno’s cross, but he soon put that right by making it four.
The Belgian was allowed to cut in from the left and although he appeared to look for Sturridge with a curling cross, the ball touched no-one and snuck inside the far post.
That was as good as it got for either side in the final 25 minutes as Liverpool comfortably saw out the win to move up to eighth in the table.
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