Liverpool 6–0 Qarabağ
- Allister 15'
- Wirtz 21'
- Salah 50'
- Ekitiké 57'
- Allister 61'
- Chiesa 90'
28 January 2026
The match in data
Liverpool beat Qarabağ 6–0 on 28 January 2026, in the 2025-26 Champions League (League Stage 8).
Player of the match: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool), rated 76, thanks above all to 18 final-third passes and 73 passes. van Dijk produced 1.9 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
It is their 4th time as player of the match this season.
For Qarabağ, the highest-rated player was Pedro Bicalho, with 57.
Alexis Mac Allister scored twice.
Virgil van Dijk
Liverpool · 90'
Produced 1.85× and cost 0.41× their position's average
- 18 final-third passes 3.2×
- 73 passes 1.6×
- 4 aerials won 2.4×
- 9 misplaced passes 1.3×
- 1 duel lost 0.3×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil van Dijk ★ | Defender | 90 | 76 |
| Ryan Gravenberch | Midfielder | 90 | 74 |
| Dominik Szoboszlai | Midfielder | 75 | 71 |
| Mohamed Salah | Forward | 90 | 67 |
| Cody Gakpo | Forward | 74 | 56 |
| Florian Wirtz | Midfielder | 67 | 52 |
| Hugo Ekitiké | Forward | 67 | 52 |
| Andrew Robertson | Defender | 90 | 51 |
| Trey Nyoni | Midfielder | 23 | 50 |
| Alexis Mac Allister | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Wataru Endo | Midfielder | 86 | 41 |
| Rio Ngumoha | Forward | 23 | 36 |
| Alisson | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Federico Chiesa | Forward | 16 | no rating |
| Amara Nallo | Defender | 15 | no rating |
| Jeremie Frimpong | Defender | 4 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pedro Bicalho | Midfielder | 90 | 57 |
| Abdellah Zoubir | Midfielder | 81 | 51 |
| Camilo Durán | Forward | 67 | 48 |
| Toral Bayramov | Defender | 23 | 47 |
| Joni Montiel | Midfielder | 85 | 46 |
| Leandro Andrade | Midfielder | 68 | 43 |
| Dani Bolt | Defender | 22 | 40 |
| Marko Jankovic | Midfielder | 90 | 39 |
| Kevin Medina | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Elvin Cafarquliyev | Defender | 67 | 34 |
| Bahlul Mustafazada | Defender | 90 | 28 |
| Nariman Akhundzada | Forward | 23 | 28 |
| Matheus Silva | Defender | 90 | 26 |
| Mateusz Kochalski | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Emmanuel Addai | Forward | 9 | no rating |
| Musa Qurbanly | Forward | 5 | no rating |
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.