Liverpool 'Galactico' shines as national media make Jurgen Klopp point after Real Madrid win
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A look at how the national media reacted to Liverpool's 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions LeagueLiverpool gave their season a huge shot in the arm with a 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday night at Anfield. Here's what they made of it.The Telegraph's Chris Bascombe writes: "Real Madrid were kryptonite to Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool.
They appear to be rocket fuel for Arne Slot."Klopp’s great Anfield side could never get past Los Blancos, the Champions League final defeats of 2018 and 2022 the most painful of the German’s reign on Merseyside. It was raw and it was visceral."And when it was done and the mighty Real Madrid had been vanquished and this old stadium had delivered another passion play on another memorable European night under the lights, Liverpool’s season felt alive again, alive with possibility and hope and ambition."The rocket came from Alexis Mac Allister a bullet of a header that whizzed past the head of Thibaut Courtois so fast and so furiously that he did not even have time to duck.
There is plenty to salvage this season for Slot and his players."The ECHO's verdict reads: "The cold, soulless facts will say Liverpool are now up to sixth in the group stage of the Champions League after this 1-0 win over Real Madrid. After a historic summer transfer window where close to £450m was forked out and around half of that was recouped, the glossy brochure that had Slot's Premier League champions as the all-conquering unbeatables has not quite looked like that in reality."It's been tough and even when games have been won, late goals have been needed too often and games have not been controlled in the manner that became so routine last year en route to league title No.20."Six defeats in seven prior to Saturday's much-needed 2-0 win over Aston Villa was indicative of a team struggling to find their groove amid the unusually high volume of turnover in the playing staff."But having taken an encouraging step towards the light at the end of the tunnel against Villa, the Reds took a quantum leap here as los Blancos were dispatched from Merseyside with nothing to show for their efforts for a second Champions League season running."The rule that forbids the same fixture being played three seasons running will be a welcome and much-needed reprieve for Madrid, one suspects.