17d
17d
IAN HERBERT AT ANFIELD: Hope sprang eternal because this is
Anfield‚ the partisan‚ stubbornly inhospitable place where
European comebacks have become an art form and folk memory.
Long before kick-off‚ they were‚ of course‚ dialling down the list of clubs who had arrived here with an advantage and left with nothing:
Barcelona 2019‚
Olympiacos 2004‚ right back to
St Etienne 1977‚ when a skinny-legged
David Fairclough danced through the
French midfield and sent
Liverpool on into a
European Cup they won. This c
hallenge seemed every bit as great as those because‚ although
Galatasaray brought a mere one-goal advantage‚ something at the heart of
Liverpool is malfunctioning. A club whose glories have always been based on the collective is suddenly a group of moving parts. 'Not a team but a team of individuals‚ as
Jamie Carragher put it in a searing and significant analysis on Sky's Monday Night Football this week‚ after the late capitulation to
Tottenham Hotspur which in so many ways felt like a defeat.