2017-18 UEFA Champions League SF First Leg Liverpool Vs A S Roma @ Alliance Arena Wednesday April 25,2018

Liverpool beat A S Roma 5-2

Goal Scorers

For Liverpool -

• Salah (35' minutes, 45' minutes), 
• Mané (56' minutes), 
• Firmino (61' minutes, 68' minutes)

For A S Roma

• Dzeko (81' minutes), 
• Perotti (85' minutes pen)

Another Mohamed Salah masterclass helped Liverpool take control of their Champions League semi-final - but two late Roma away goals gave the Italian side a glimmer of hope for the second leg.

Liverpool, who last reached the final in 2007, repeatedly breached the visitors' naively high defensive line and scored five times in the opening 68 minutes at a raucous Anfield.

Salah, who has now scored 43 goals since his summer move from Roma, scored twice and assisted two other goals.

He curled his first into the top corner from the edge of the box - then clipped the ball over Alisson for a second.

Salah then ran down the right and squared for Sadio Mane to make it 3-0 - before doing the same to set up Roberto Firmino.

Liverpool then became only the second team to score five goals in a Champions League semi-final match when Firmino headed in James Milner's corner.

With his side leading 5-0, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp took off Salah - and Roma gave themselves a chance for next week's return leg at the Stadio Olimpico.

First Edin Dzeko lashed home from Radja Nainggolan's pass, then Diego Perotti put a penalty into the top right corner after Milner handled Nainggolan's shot.

And Roma need only look to the last round for inspiration - they lost the first leg in Barcelona 4-1 before winning 3-0 in Italy to progress on away goals.

A repeat of the latter scoreline this time would take them into the final against Bayern Munich or Real Madrid.

Prior to Roma's late goals, the one sour note for Liverpool was the sight of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain leaving the field on a stretcher. Klopp said later the England midfielder "probably had a really bad injury".

Match stats - joint highest-scoring semi-final

• Liverpool are only the second side in Champions League history to score five goals in a semi-final match (also Ajax in 1995, 5-2 v Bayern Munich).
• This game produced the joint most goals of any Champions League semi-final match.
• Roma have won just one of their past 15 away Champions League games (D5 L9).
• Liverpool are the first side in Champions League history to have three players score eight or more goals in a single season in the competition (Salah 10, Firmino 10, Mane 8).
• The 10 goals scored by Salah and Firmino are the most by Liverpool players in a single season in European competition.
• Salah has netted 43 goals in all competitions this season - only Ian Rush in 1983-84 (47) has scored more in a single campaign for Liverpool.
• Salah's haul in the most by any player in all competitions in Europe's top five leagues this season.
• He has scored in each of his past five Champions League starts for Liverpool, something only Steven Gerrard had previously done.
• Only Cristiano Ronaldo (18) has been directly involved in more Champions League goals this season than Firmino (16, 10 goals, 6 assists).
• Milner has provided nine assists in the Champions League this season (including qualifiers), a new record. Wayne Rooney (2013-14) and Neymar (2016-17) assisted eight each in a campaign

 The second leg of this tie is on Wednesday May 02,2018