Liverpool weathered a storm, both literal and metaphorical, to see off Porto at Estadio do Dragao, and can now look forward to the most mouth-watering of Champions League semi-finals. Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho await the Reds in the last four.
What a tie, and what an incentive. In a week where Ajax and Tottenham provided the fairytales, Jurgen Klopp’s side ensured there was to be no such shock in Portugal. The Premier League leaders were far from pretty at times, but they got the job done.