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Liverpool have decades of ghosts to exorcise if they are to win the Premier League

The blue wall was holding firm, the visitors were relishing delaying the hosts’ bid to paint the town red, and then Liverpool’s legendary captain made a horrendous, uncharacteristic error sending an opposing striker one-on-one with the goalkeeper at the Kop end.

This could have been eerily and despairingly familiar for Merseyside’s league leaders. For Chelsea’s Demba Ba in the spring of 2014, read Everton’s Beto in April, 2025. The outcome may prove equally consequential in determining which name is engraved onto the Premier League trophy.

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Beto breaks free but his effort crashes against the post!