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5.31pm GMT
Liverpool meet Leipzig ... in Budapest. Might sound like your gap year inter-rail trip but it’s actually Champions League knock-out stage football in the Covid-19 era – and what a way to kick things off!
Jurgen Klopp’s men have lost three games in a row. Five in seven. Six in 10. Whichever way you cut the stats it makes for an extraordinarily grim run, given where they’ve come from, and you sense they need the kind of result that puts things back on an even keel. It’s a big week for them, this, with Everton coming up on Saturday – so a positive first-leg outcome against last season’s surprise semi-finalists would be very good indeed.
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