Europe remains Liverpool’s sanctuary. Unrecognisable in their defence of the Premier League title yet authoritative in the Champions League, Jürgen Klopp’s side advanced into the quarter-finals with a repeat of their first leg victory over RB Leipzig in Budapest. Confidence visibly poured back into Liverpool’s players once Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané confirmed their vast superiority over the second placed team in the Bundesliga.
Salah and Mané struck in the space of four second half minutes, having done the same in five in the first leg, to ensure there would be no fresh crisis for Klopp to contend with in this troubled season.
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