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Liverpool may have already secured a place in the Champions League last-16 as group winners before they took on Porto - but that didn't stop them from producing one of the highlights of Wednesday's action.
Already seven points clear of Porto with just two matches to play, the Reds could have been forgiven for just going through the motions to wrap up their group fixtures.
Instead they demonstrated why they are still one of the hot favourites to win the competition outright thanks to a wonderful strike from Thiago Alcantara in a 2-0 win over their Portuguese group rivals.
Thiago Alcantara celebrates opening the scoring for Liverpool against Porto on Wednesday
The midfielder's sensational 30-yard effort kissed the ground on its way to the bottom corner
Seven minutes after half-time at Anfield, Porto cleared a poor free-kick from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as far as Thiago who was lingering 30 yards from goal.
With the ball bouncing low towards him, the Spaniard let fly, with one-touch, a crisp powerful drive using the outside of his right foot which kissed the playing surface once before settling into the bottom corner at the Kop end having given the keeper no chance.
Former Liverpool striker Michael Owen was left
