Liverpool 2-5 Real Madrid: Hosts thrashed by holders in Champions League last 16

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By Phil McNultyChief shot writer

Last updated connected 19 minutes ago.From the conception European Football

Liverpool person been near with a mountainous task to support their Champions League ambitions live aft they were torn isolated by ruthless Real Madrid astatine Anfield.

Holders Real - who bushed Liverpool successful past season's last successful Paris - became the archetypal broadside to people 5 astatine Anfield successful Europe contempt going 2 goals down aboriginal connected arsenic Liverpool made a imagination commencement to this last-16 tie.

Darwin Nunez's superb flick enactment Liverpool up aft lone 4 minutes earlier Mohamed Salah cashed successful connected Real goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois' mediocre clearance to treble their vantage 10 minutes later.

Liverpool's supporters, who had vented their fury astatine being wrongly blamed for the chaos astatine past season's last by holding up a emblem emblazoned with "UEFA LIARS" and loudly jeering the Champions League anthem, were soon to person their thunderous celebrations silenced successful emphatic fashion.

Vinicius Junior's superb 21st-minute onslaught pulled a extremity backmost earlier Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson followed Courtois' pb by hacking a clearance consecutive astatine the Brazilian, holding his caput successful anguish arsenic the shot looped down him into the nett successful beforehand of a disbelieving Kop.

It changed the full accent of the contest, Real going up 2 minutes aft the interruption erstwhile Eder Militao headed successful Luka Modric's free-kick.

Real past rammed location their superiority arsenic Karim Benzema's changeable deflected successful disconnected Joe Gomez, the French striker past coolly adding a 5th aft much superb enactment by the ageless Modric.

Liverpool person pulled disconnected spectacular comebacks before, but it would beryllium genuinely bonzer if they turned this 1 astir astatine the Bernabeu.

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Liverpool

Squad number1Player nameAlisson
Squad number66Player nameAlexander-Arnold
Squad number2Player nameGomez
Squad number4Player namevan Dijk
Squad number26Player nameRobertson
Squad number14Player nameHenderson
Squad number3Player nameFabinho
Squad number43Player nameBajcetic
Squad number11Player nameMohamed Salah
Squad number18Player nameGakpo
Squad number27Player nameNúñez

Squad number7Player nameMilner
Squad number9Player nameRoberto Firmino
Squad number19Player nameElliott
Squad number20Player nameDiogo Jota
Squad number32Player nameMatip

Real Madrid

Squad number1Player nameCourtois
Squad number2Player nameCarvajal
Squad number3Player nameÉder Militão
Squad number22Player nameRüdiger
Squad number4Player nameAlaba
Squad number15Player nameValverde
Squad number12Player nameCamavinga
Squad number10Player nameModric
Squad number21Player nameRodrygo
Squad number9Player nameBenzema
Squad number20Player nameVinícius Júnior

Squad number6Player nameNacho
Squad number8Player nameKroos
Squad number11Player nameAsensio
Squad number19Player nameDani Ceballos

Line-ups

Liverpool

Formation 4-3-3

1Alisson
66Alexander-Arnold
2GomezSubstituted forMatipat 73'minutes
4van Dijk
26Robertson
14HendersonSubstituted forMilnerat 73'minutes
3Fabinho
43BajceticSubstituted forElliottat 85'minutesBooked astatine 90mins
11Salah
18GakpoSubstituted forFirminoat 64'minutes
27NúñezSubstituted forJotaat 64'minutes

Substitutes

7Milner
8Keïta
9Firmino
13Adrián
15Oxlade-Chamberlain
17Jones
19Elliott
20Jota
21Tsimikas
28Carvalho
32Matip
62Kelleher

Real Madrid

Formation 4-3-3

1Courtois
2Carvajal
3Militão
22Rüdiger
4AlabaSubstituted forNachoat 27'minutes
15Valverde
12Camavinga
10ModricSubstituted forKroosat 87'minutes
21RodrygoSubstituted forCeballosat 81'minutes
9BenzemaSubstituted forAsensioat 87'minutes
20Vinícius JúniorBooked astatine 60mins

Substitutes

5Vallejo
6Nacho
7E Hazard
8Kroos
11Asensio
13Lunin
16Odriozola
17Vázquez
19Ceballos
31Martín
33Arribas
39Rodríguez

Live Text

Match ends, Liverpool 2, Real Madrid 5.
Second Half ends, Liverpool 2, Real Madrid 5.
Harvey Elliott (Liverpool) is shown the yellowish paper for a atrocious foul.
Foul by Harvey Elliott (Liverpool).
Nacho (Real Madrid) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Diogo Jota (Liverpool) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid).
Foul by Joël Matip (Liverpool).
Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Toni Kroos replaces Luka Modric.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Marco Asensio replaces Karim Benzema.
Substitution, Liverpool. Harvey Elliott replaces Stefan Bajcetic.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Daniel Carvajal.
Foul by Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool).
Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Dani Ceballos replaces Rodrygo.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Éder Militão.
James Milner (Liverpool) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Foul by Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid).
Substitution, Liverpool. James Milner replaces Jordan Henderson.