Holder Real Madrid produced a surprising comeback from two objectives right down to earn a devastating 5-2 victory at Liverpool within the first leg of its Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday.
In a re-run of final 12 months’s ultimate, the primary half was performed at a ferocious tempo, with the host racing right into a fourth-minute lead by an excellent Darwin Nunez flick — the quickest objective Liverpool has ever scored at Anfield within the Champions League.
Anfield erupted 10 minutes later when an horrendous miscontrol from Real goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois left Mohamed Salah with the easy process of slotting the ball dwelling to make it 2-0.
Yet simply because it did on a number of events en path to its 14th European Cup crown final season, Real shortly turned issues round, with Vinicius Jr. scoring one elegant strike and one fluke objective after one other goalkeeping mistake to stage the match by halftime.
A bullet Eder Militao header accomplished the turnaround for Real early within the second half, sapping all of the life out of Anfield within the course of.
The host’s distress was not carried out there, nonetheless, as Karim Benzema’s double ensured Liverpool shipped 5 objectives at dwelling for under the third time this century in all competitions, leaving it with a monumental process to achieve the quarter finals.
