Live Liverpool vs Spartak Moscow, Champions League: live score updates

9:30pm
GOOOOAL! Liverpool 7-0 Spartak (Salah)
And Salah has his goal. He latches on to Milner's cross after Sturridge's dummy, fakes a shot to sell two defenders before firing into the top corner. Just so easy.

9:27pm
84 mins
Lovely ball inside the full back from Mane, Alexander-Arnold comes steaming into the area and crosses low for Sturridge, but he can only turn over the bar.

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9:26pm
81 mins
Big penalty shout and Sturridge cannot believe it hasn't been given. Coutinho scoops a ball over the defence, Sturridge runs onto it, tries to tap it past the onrushing keeper, but replays show Selikhov gets an inadvertent touch on it before Spartak scramble it clear.

9:20pm
GOAL! Mane makes it 6-0!
Mane nicks possession inside the centre circle and Liverpool burst to life. Can finds Salah and Sturridge is advancing to his right. He looks up to see Mane arriving in the six yard box and squares the ball across goal for Mane to tap in. It was just behind him but he does well to force it home.

9:18pm
74 mins
Quincy Promes with the best effort of the game for Spartak, controlling Zabalic's pass before whipping an effort towards the far post, but it flies just wide of the post.

9:14pm
71 mins
Finally Klopp relents. Firmino is replaced by Daniel Sturridge, who will want a goal here.

9:11pm
68 mins
Liverpool only have one sub left, but can anyone work out why Klopp isn't taking one of his attackers off with the Merseyside derby in mind?

Liverpool players celebrate
Haven't these guys done enough? CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
9:08pm
66 mins
Pasalic turns Wijnaldum well enough in front of the Liverpool defence and shoots from the edge of the area but it flies well over the bar.

9:05pm
61 mins
Very nearly six for Liverpool, Selikhov tips Salah's effort around the post after the Egyptian dances his way into the Spartak box, opens his body up and shoots left-footed towards the bottom left-corner. Good save.

9:02pm
60 mins
Subs for both teams: Trent Alexander-Arnold replaces Lovren for Liverpool (Gomez will go to centre-back.

Pasalic replaces Dzhikiya for the visitors.

9:01pm
59 mins
And I can confirm Liverpool have had a touch in the Liverpool half. Zobnin lofts a cross into the box. Klavan clears.

8:58pm
55 mins
Spartak can't get out of their half and Liverpool are rampant. Luiz Adriano turns well near halfway, and lofts a ball over Gomez for Melgarejo to chase, but the newly-introduced sub can't beat the Liverpool man for pace. I don't think Spartak have touched the ball in the Liverpool half since the break.

8:56pm
GOOOOOALL!! Coutinho completes his hat-trick to make it 5-0!
Liverpool are on fire! It's another move that starts off patiently and then sparks into life in the final third. Firmino finds Milner, who drills a ball into Coutinho on the edge of the box. One touch with his right to control, and a shot with his left without breaking stride, and a deflection wrong-foots Selikhov in the Spartak goal.

8:52pm
GOOOOOAALL!! Sadio Mane makes it four!
Maybe I was a little premature with that 5-0 prediction...

Milner gets forward down the left and Coutinho finds him. With his first touches Milner controls the ball and whips in a perfect cross to Mane at the back post, and he meets it on the volley nearly at chest height to slam into the top corner! What a finish that is and Liverpool score within two minutes of the half starting.

8:48pm
The players are back out
And Liverpool get the second half started. I'm predicting two more home goals and a 5-0 final score.

8:34pm
Half time
This game is over, in all honesty. The soft penalty after two minutes gave Liverpool the chance to take full control and they didn't need asking twice.

3-0 up within 19 minutes and cruising, they will finish top of the group. The next 45 minutes are inconsequential, really.

Here's the half in graphics:

Shots

Possession

Pass map

This last one is really interesting. Spartak have had more of the ball and have just about played more passes in the final third, but just look at how many straight passes Liverpool are playing in attacking areas. They are just so clinical on the break and the scoreline reflects that.

8:31pm
45 mins
Moreno is down again, and it doesn't look great. He has his head in his hands. James Milner is getting ready to come on.

Moreno is in tears as he hobbles off.

8:29pm
44 mins
Moreno is back on the pitch.

8:29pm
41 mins
Spartak are committing men forward and they have a couple of shooting opportunities blocked by good Liverpool defending. One of those challenges has caused Alberto Moreno an injury - he is down receiving treatment, and for some reason Philippe Coutinho is over there helping out...

Moreno is hobbling to the sideline. He's nodding, which I am interpreting as "yes, thanks. I'm ok."

8:24pm
38 mins
Dzhikiya is lucky to escape a second yellow for what looks a deliberate handball as Liverpool try to break.

8:23pm
36 mins
Firmino turns well into space in midfield, and slides a ball towards Salah who is racing through the space between the two centre-backs. He knows he has Mane in support and plays a beautiful little flick around the corner for the Senegal international to run onto. He's bearing down on goal and should make it four... but miscues his shot and skies it into the stand.

8:21pm
34 mins
A nasty-looking collision as Ze Luis goes charging through on goal with Gomez. The Liverpool man looks favourite to get there but here comes Loris Karius! He goes flying into the challenge and all three players smash into each other. They all get up to see the linesman's flag was up! Rush of blood to the head, that.

8:15pm
29 mins
Promes shows a rare sign of brightness for the visitors, bursting through a gap in midfield and shooting from just outside the area. It's deflected wide.

8:12pm
26 mins
Liverpool certainly aren't finished yet, Coutinho lining up an effort for his third by he is halted as he kicks Luiz Adriano's leg and crumples to the floor on the edge of the box. The Spartak man gets none of the ball, so surely that was a foul??

8:10pm
This would be fun

8:09pm
I imagine this could increase by the end of the night

8:07pm
21 mins
Liverpool have another chance with Mane shooting wide from edge of the box when he had plenty of options left and right.

8:06pm
GOOOOOALLL! Liverpool 3-0 Spartak (Firmino)
This is ridiculously easy for Liverpool. Glushakov drills an awful pass at the heels of his advancing left-back, it bounces off him and falls to Sadio Mane. He drives at the Spartak goal, dinks a ball in to the centre, it hits Bochetti (possibly on the arm) and Firmino comes steaming in to slam home Liverpool's third. Game over.

8:02pm
GOOOOOAL!!! Liverpool 2-0 Spartak Moscow (Coutinho)
Coutinho gets his second of the game to double Liverpool's lead, and it's a lovely goal involving each of the Fab Four.

Mane starts things off by drifting through midfield unchallenged, he feeds Salah, whose first time pass finds Firmino, and rather than shooting from an angle the Brazilian finds his compatriot Coutinho arriving at the back post and lays it on a plate for him. Two goals for Coutinho and Liverpool are strolling.

8:00pm
14 mins
A good break from Spartak with Zobnin getting forward well on the right, and feeding Luiz Adriano in a central position. He never gets his head up and doesn't notice he has options ahead of him. Instead he shoots from the edge of the box and though he hits it well enough, it's a save Karius will expect to make.

7:56pm
10 mins
Mane wastes a decent opportunity from Liverpool choosing to shoot from a tight angle when Salah and Firmino were waiting in the middle for a cross.

7:55pm
8 mins
Spartak have responded well, linking play in midfield and forging their first half chance of the game. Promes shoots from Ze Luis' lay-off but his effort is deflected over. The corner comes to nothing.

7:53pm
7 mins
The volume is rising at Anfield and the referee is allowing the game to spice up. He dishes out a second yellow inside seven minutes, with Emre Can harshly booked for lunging in, let's say, enthusiastically, in midfield.

He'll miss the next game Liverpool game in Europe through suspension.

7:52pm
GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Spartak Moscow (Coutinho pen.)
Nerves settled at Anfield, as Coutinho calmly slots the spot kick home, and that could is huge for this Liverpool team. It was a gift of an early goal, but they won't care.

7:50pm
PENALTY TO LIVERPOOL!
Coutinho lofts a hopeful ball into the Spartak box and Mo Salah goes to ground along with Dzhikiya and there are some hopeful calls for a penalty in the stands. The referee takes a second and then gives it! It's so, so, so soft, but the defender gets a yellow card, too.

7:48pm
2 mins
All the early possession for the visitors, and all the early noise coming from the away end. There simply cannot be any complacency from Liverpool tonight against a side many will be expecting them to beat.

7:46pm
Are we in for more Anfield drama?
Let's find out - Spartak get us under way.

7:45pm
A reminder of the situation
Liverpool need a draw to qualify, and a win to guarantee top spot.

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7:42pm
Here come the players
Liverpool all in red with white trim; Spartak all white with red trim.

7:27pm
Spartak's dangerman
Quincy Promes is the man to keep an eye out for tonight. He arguably hasn't reached the heights some thought he might, much like the rest of the current Holland team he is part of.

Quincy Promes (centre) during a training session at Anfield
Quincy Promes (centre) during a training session at Anfield CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
But he is Spartak's top scorer and has the most assists in the Russian Premier League, while he has two goals and two assist in four Champions League games. We know Liverpool's weaknesses are at the back, and Promes will carry much of the visitors' threat.

7:17pm
Liverpool's youth team played Spartak earlier...
And it ended with Rhian Brewster being dragged away from his Russian opponents following the final whistle. Liverpool accused Spartak of racism - not for the first time this season - and Brewster alleges that he was abused by opposing players.

Youth team coach Steven Gerrard confirmed Liverpool will be following the matter up and Uefa will no doubt investigate.

6:54pm
Klopp explains his selection decisions
“I thought the best way not to lose is to win the game. Like always, we will need perfect organisation and we show our respect for the opponent with our attitude in the game.

“No line-up gives you the guarantee for a win, we always work with probabilities and stuff like this.

“It’s a completely different game [to the one in Russia], they have a different side with three or four important players back in the squad. There is no difference in our approach because you cannot draw with the intention to draw for 90 minutes, that does not work.

“We have to work, be well organised and play football. It is our home game and we are a strong side, so we should show that – we should show what we are fighting for.”

6:45pm
The teams are in
And Klopp makes five changes to the team that beat Brighton on Sunday, and reverts to four at the back. Philippe Coutinho captains the side:

Liverpool: Karius; Gomez, Lovren, Klavan, Moreno; Can, Wijnaldum, Coutinho; Salah, Mane, Firmino

Subs: Mignolet, Alexander-Arnold, Milner, Henderson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Solanke, Sturridge

Philippe Coutinho
Coutinho captains the side tonight CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
As Klopp highlighted yesterday, Spartak have three key men in Quincy Promes, Ze Luis and Denis Glushakov available again. Here's the team.

Selikhov; Eshchenko, Tasci, Bocchetti, Dzhikiya; Fernando, Glushakov; Zobnin, Adriano, Promes; Ze Luis

6:23pm
Preamble
Here we go then, it's all or nothing for Liverpool tonight. Well, that's what Jurgen Klopp said yesterday ahead of this tie. He wants "Anfield to be at its best" as Liverpool aim to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League for the first time since 2009.

So, this is the situation: Liverpool are top of Group E, and require a point to guarantee their place in the next round. However, with second-place Sevilla expected to beat rank outsiders Maribor in the group's other fixture, Klopp's men may actually need three points to fend off Sevilla and secure top spot. Here's how the table looks going into tonight's game:

You might think Liverpool should just be happy to make it through, but there is a difference between first and second place when it comes to second round opponents.

Finish second, as Chelsea did last night, and the only teams Liverpool could face would be Barcelona, PSG or Besiktas. Finish top and the options aren't much easier, but they could include Basel, Porto and Shakhtar Donetsk. Small margins and all that...

Anyway, we should have team news for you in the next 20 minutes.