Liverpool player ratings vs Man City: Salah and Van Dijk among four abysmal 4/10s

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He gave the hosts the lead from the penalty spot, after Virgil van Dijk fouled Nico O’Reilly inside the area, and sent stand-in goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili the wrong way from 12 yards.The Norwegian grabbed his and City’s second just before half-time when a well-worked move involving Rayan Cherki and Antoine Semenyo saw the latter’s cross flicked into the back of the net by Haaland. The two midfielders combined again shortly after the restart and Semenyo dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to put the FA Cup quarter-final result beyond any doubt.Haaland put the cherry on top when a free-flowing moved saw O'Reilly slip away from Joe Gomez and Haaland had the entire goal to aim at, completing his hat-trick before Mohamed Salah began his farewell tour with a missed penalty.Here, Express Sport runs through our Liverpool player ratings from the quarter-final…Liverpool player ratings (4-2-2-2)Giorgi Mamardashvili - 6Stepping in for the injured Alisson, a role he will assume at least for the next few matches.

Beaten from the spot by Haaland and there was little he could do for any of the goals.Joe Gomez - 4Did well up against Jeremy Doku and created a couple of chances with clever crosses initially but made a mess of a throw that led to City's third goal and then let O'Reilly walk past him inside the penalty area, to set up a fourth goal.Ibrahima Konate - 5Bit wayward with his passing and got beat by Haaland to the header for his second goal.Virgil van Dijk - 4Clumsily gave away a penalty for bringing O’Reilly down, only moments after he should have shot when found in the box by Gomez, but decided to backheel rather than swing his left foot. Then let Haaland run free to complete his hat-trick on a miserable afternoon for the captain.Milos Kerkez - 5Perhaps a bit fortunate not to have given away a penalty for tripping Cherki inside the penalty area, through VAR turned down City protests.

Struggled to deal with the Frenchman and Semenyo combining down his flank.MidfieldRyan Gravenberch - 4Picked up an early yellow which hampered his ability to thwart City’s attacks. But went off the boil as City's goals went in, though he was not alone in that regard.Erling Haaland's hat-trick decided this FA Cup quarter-final.