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History tells us that Liverpool are home and hosed already. That’s because Liverpool have been victorious all 35 ties in Uefa competition in which they’ve won the first leg away from home. Last week’s 3-1 win at the Stadium of Light therefore puts them in quite the favourable position to make it through to a semi-final with Villarreal.
Nothing’s ever that simple, though, as the last of those 35 ties may illustrate. In the previous round, the Reds won 2-0 away at Internazionale, only for the Italian champions to come haring back at them at Anfield. Had Alexis Sánchez not got himself stupidly sent off seconds after Lautaro Martínez gave an increasingly confident Inter the lead, that run could well have ended at 34, and we wouldn’t be here today. Sliding tackle, sliding doors.
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