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It was a night when Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool could savour the release of Champions League football. With their confidence at a low ebb after a grisly run on the domestic front – the form guide showed just three wins for them in 12 matches – they had travelled for the away leg of this last 16 tie under intense pressure. How they made light of it.
This was a performance more in keeping with the ones that had made them such feared opposition prior to their shock downturn; the hustle was there and so was the focus and precision. Importantly, the errors that have undermined them of late were not. Instead, they belonged to RB Leipzig. Continue reading...