If you have clichés, prepare to shed them now. Everybody talks about the famous European nights at Anfield, about St. Etienne and Olympiakos, about Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City. But even in the catalogue of great occasions, extraordinary results and implausible comebacks this ground has witnessed, there has been nothing like this. The plan, Jurgen Klopp had said, was: “Just try. If we can do it, wonderful. If not, then fail in the most beautiful way.”
Instead, it succeeded in the most beautiful way.
Liverpool will play in the Champions League final. With two goals from Divock Origi and two from Georginio Wijnaldum, two implausible figures, it beat Barcelona 4-0 and the impossible became real.