Liverpool have one foot in the Europa League quarter-finals after making light work of Sparta Prague in their last-16 first leg on Thursday night. Alexis Mac Allister got the scoring under way for the Reds with a sixth-minute penalty before Darwin Nunez got himself a stunning first-half brace for a 3-0 lead at the break. Conor Bradley scored an unfortunate own goal early on after the restart, but Luis Diaz restored Liverpool’s three-goal advantage in the 53rd minute. Mohamed Salah came on in the latter stages of the game and though he had scored, only for VAR to rule the goal out for offside. …