Galatasaray v Liverpool: Champions League last-16, first leg – live

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Home and away R16 defeats to Atletico Madrid in 2020. Home and away R16 defeats to Real Madrid in 2023.

Last year’s flattering R16 win in Paris followed by defeat at home. Given their historical status as European royalty, the Redmen need to raise their game.Which, to be fair, they’ve been doing in Europe this season.

Their travails in the Premier League are well documented, but they won six out of eight games in the group stage, that 4-1thrashing by PSV Eindhoven a really weird outlier. Throw in Gala’s exceptional home record in European Cup knockouts – they’re unbeaten in ten since losing to Atletico Madrid in 1973, for goodness sake – and Liverpool have quite a lot of historical baggage to shake off if they’re to head back to Anfield with any sort of advantage.So if all of that doesn’t tempt fate into gifting Liverpool a positive result tonight, we don’t know what else we can do.