Liverpool 3-2 Atletico Madrid: Champions League – as it happened
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What a ludicrous final few minutes, but as the dust settles it’s another late winner and another Liverpool win!90+7 mins: And nearly an equaliser!
Atletico lose the ball in the centre circle, it’s played right to Salah, and his low cross bounces just before it reaches an unmarked Ekitike, who deflects it into the ground and it bounces up and over the bar!
90+5 mins: Now Ekitike nearly bursts past the defence, but Lenglet manages to deflect the ball back to his keeper.
90+4 mins: The Atletico Madrid coach heads down the tunnel, having been dismissed by referee Maurizio Mariani!
90+3 mins: Diego Simeone is very angry about something (not the goal, which obviously he’s very angry about, but something in the crowd, because that’s where he headed after the goal).
But there’s no stopping this one!
The delivery is perfect, and Van Dijk from a good 12 yards hammers a header into the corner!
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90+2 mins: Szoboszlai’s corner flies only just over Van Dijk’s head and is cleared.
Atletico attack down the left, seem to lose it, never quite do so, Simeone’s shot from the left-hand corner of the penalty area deflects off Konate’s back and drops to Llorente, and he hammers a volley past Alisson from 20 yards!
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79 mins: The last 10 minutes or so have been played to a soundtrack of gently concerned background grumblement.
76 mins: Atletico win a corner, and before they take it Marc Pubill comes on for Gonzalez.
75 mins: Rio Ngumoha comes on for Wirtz, who has played very well and hinted at a potentially very exciting partnership with Isak.
73 mins: Llorente picks up the ball on the right, runs diagonally across the penalty area and finally has a shot, which surely deflects off Bradley.
Liverpool break, Wirtz and Szoboszlai get in each other’s way as the ball breaks into the Atletico box and then it breaks right to Salah, who smashes it into the inside of the post!
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64 mins: Now It’s Atletico exerting pressure, pushing numbers forward in search of an equaliser.
61 mins: And now a couple of changes for Atletico: Alexander Sorloth and Nahuel Molina come on, replacing Griezmann and Gallagher.
60 mins: An hour played, and Atletico haven’t been out of their half for a while.
59 mins: Liverpool make a triple change: Isak, Frimpong and Gakpo go off, Ekitike, Bradley and Mac Allister come on.
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57 mins: The corner comes to nothing, but Liverpool keep attacking for a couple of minutes, everyone by now knowing that the move represents Isak’s final chance of a debut goal.
A nice move from the away side, with Giacomo Raspadori timing his run from deep perfectly and passing infield to Llorente, who takes an imperfect touch that works out nicely as he stretches and toe-pokes through Konate’s legs and inside the far post.
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45+1 mins: Another Atletico corner starts stoppage time, of which there’ll be about four minutes.
43 mins: Nearly a wonderful third