Goals from Alexis Mac Allister and Cody Gakpo, and a penalty save by Caoimhín Kelleher from Kylian Mbappé, helped Liverpool to a 2-0 victory over Real Madrid
Arne Slot’s Liverpool reboot has its latest dividend. His team continues to boast the only 100% record in thegroup stage and this was not just another victory, it was a swatting aside of the holders, a statement of intent.
The recent history was a part of it, Liverpool feeling it. Not in a way that took in revenge – it was a group phase tie, that could not happen. But just feeling it, all that heartache, especially when glory had been so close. Mbappé wanted to freeze-frame the play, to set himself up for something but he was unceremoniously robbed by Mohamed Salah, who set Darwin Núñez away. Thibaut Courtois would push out Núñez’s shot but it came off Raúl Asencio to trickle towards the goal. Asencio stretched back to hack off the line. The jeers would track Mbappé; ditto Bellingham, who played with a heavy strapping on his left leg.
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