Liverpool player ratings, winners and losers vs Real Madrid as Alexis Mac Allister and 3 more superb

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Thibaut Courtois in the Real Madrid goal refused to be beaten, though, which he has a tendency of doing when he comes up against the Reds. It would have been easy to suggest he didn't feature from the off because of the reception he was going to get had he not been injured for a spell.

He wasn't called into action against Kylian Mbappe as much as he might have been expecting. These are the matches when he tends to come alive (he scored in this fixture the last time it was played too) and it was he who broke the deadlock.

His link-up play was good and he led the press well, drawing fouls when he was under pressure. He pressed; he created.