Liverpool vs Manchester United is one of the greatest rivalries in European football.
But it was as one-sided as it was on Sunday, when Jurgen Klopp’s team beat United 7-0 in a rout for the ages at Anfield.
United capitulated in the second half when goals from Darwin Nunez, Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino sealed one of Liverpool’s greatest victories against their rivals. Indeed, it was the biggest victory for either side in the match’s long history.
And yet, how does this score compare to the biggest wins in some of Europe’s other great rival games?
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El Clasico
The biggest win in Clasico history came in the second leg of the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey (then known as the Copa Generalissimo) in 1943. Barcelona owners beat Les Corts 3-0 in the first leg and appeared to be on one foot in the final, but Real Madrid pulled off an incredible 11-1 win in the second leg.
Los Blancos turned the situation on its head in 45 minutes of the second leg at Estadio Chamartin, leading to half-time with a score of 8-0. This match is often cited as one of the key factors in the Clasico rivalry that led to the sacking of the Barça president.
Sabino Barinaga scored four goals, Pruden scored a hat-trick and Chus Alonso scored a brace, while Antonio Alsua and Pascual Botella scored goals for Real Madrid and Mariano Martin scored a consolation goal in the 89th minute. Madrid lost 1-0 to Athletic Bilbao in the Cup final.
Derby della Madonnina
Milan’s best day against Inter came in May 2001, when the San Siro won 6-0 in Serie A. Although technically the Rossoneri were the away team, they decisively secured the right to show off on their overall stadium at the end of a disappointing season. .
Gianni Comandini volleyed just two minutes later to give Milan the lead and they didn’t look back, with Comandini grabbing his second before the 20-minute mark. These were two of the three goals he scored for the Rossoneri.
Federico Giunti, Andriy Shevchenko with his brace and Serginho jumped into the game to give Milan’s acting coach Cesare Maldini a notable win. “Mamma mia,” said Inter boss Marco Tardelli on the bench. How very lucky.
Derby d’Italia
The Milan derby is not the only major clash that Inter are involved in. Their meetings with Juventus are also always hot. Juve scored the biggest win in Derby d’Italia history as the Bianconeri were beaten 9-1 in Serie A in June 1961, though there is more to the game than meets the eye.
Inter won 2-0 after their meeting with Juve in April 1961 was cut short by Juventus fans storming the pitch. Juve filed an appeal and that appeal was upheld on the last day of the season when their club president Umberto Agnelli, also head of the FICG, decided the match needed to be replayed.
In protest against this decision, Inter opted for a youth team. Juventus rebelled, Omar Sivori scored six goals. Like Madrid’s humiliation of Barcelona, this match is considered the true birth of the Juve-Inter rivalry.
Manchester derby
Sorry, United fans, but there’s still a lot of suffering ahead. United once beat City 5-0 in 1994, but City have won three more big wins in that match: 6-1 in 1926, 5-0 in 1955 and 6-1 in 2011 . Old Trafford.
This 2011 match is particularly memorable given that it signaled the changing of the guard in Manchester as rowdy neighbors fought their way out and eventually won their first Premier League title by pushing United to the post in the last seconds of the match. last day of this season.
City won the league on goal difference, at a cost to Alex Ferguson & Co.
Der Classicer
There is another 11-1 score on that list: Bayern Munich thrashed Borussia Dortmund at Der Klassiker in November 1971.
At that stage, Bayern-Dortmund was not the most important game in German football and would not become so until the 1990s. But it still remains Bayern’s biggest win in the Bundesliga.
Gerd Müller, Uli Hoeneß and Franz Beckenbauer scored goals in this wild victory in Munich, with Müller scoring four goals.
Le Classic
Neither Paris Saint-Germain nor Marseille have ever beaten each other by more than four goals.
PSG had this advantage four times: three (5:1 in January 1978, 5:1 in February 2017, 4:0 in October 2019) and Marseille once (4:0 in November 1986).
PSG’s most recent such success was just over three years ago, with Mauro Icardi and Kylian Mbappe taking Thomas Tuchel’s all-star side 4-0 at half-time.
