Football fans and pundits seem to like to turn everything into a punchline these days but please feel free to sneer at those who quickly joke: "Well Liverpool got a taste for thrashing La Liga teams at Anfield judging by that Barcelona time in the 2019 semifinal so... no big deal here!"
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Let's be crystal clear -- while this scoreline (3-1 loss at Real Madrid) is significantly better than the 3-0 (very nearly 4-0 if it wasn't for Ousmane Dembele's ineptitude in the final seconds) defeat at Camp Nou two years ago, Jurgen Klopp's team played infinitely, almost indescribably better that night in Catalunya.