Roy Keane was left shellshocked on Sky Sports after his former side Manchester United were beaten 7-0 by Liverpool.
A demolition job unfolded at Anfield with braces for Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah before Roberto Firmino finished the rout from the bench.
The stunning result leaves the Reds in fifth place - just three points behind Tottenham Hotspur in fourth, with a game in hand. Jurgen Klopp's men are now just seven points before third-placed United.
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Speaking on Sky after the final whistle, Keane suggested the United players should "go into hiding" for a while after being embarrassed by their arch rivals.
He said: " The senior players for Man United - the big players, the ones we give the big build up to, the experienced players - they’re the ones who have really let the club down today. I always imagined if you got beat in a game like this six or seven nil you’d go into hiding.
"As a player you’d go into hiding for a few days. I think I’d go missing for a few months, it really is that embarrassing. But that’s the game, they’ve got to bounce back, they’ve got a big European game coming up."
Keane added: "I never thought United were back to their very best. They’ve had some very good results and I’ve been saying recently that United have been giving teams chances, even over the last few weeks. Leicester at home, they probably should have been two nil up at Old Trafford, West Ham should have been two nil up, so they’ve been giving teams chances and teams have let them off the hook.
"The chances they gave up today, Liverpool punished them and that’s where they deserve credit. They created opportunities, they were clinical, they were ruthless, and what I admired about Liverpool was they kept going towards the end for more goals."
In an honest admission about the power of Anfield, Keane also said: "When United come to Liverpool, whatever the form, all logic goes out the window at Anfield. We’ve said it many times before, it is the hardest place to come as a Manchester United player without a shadow of a doubt, whatever quality you have or form you might be in, and when you go two goals down like that you’ve got to show some sort of pride, fight, spirit, and they didn’t show any of that.
"I’ll go in hard on Manchester United, of course I will, but I also have to say that Liverpool were absolutely amazing. Their energy levels, their quality of play, decision-making, desire. We saw at the end of the game there they were still trying to get bodies in the box, still trying to get more goals - Liverpool were back to their very, very best, like they have done over the last few years. Embarrassing day for United though."
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