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Trippier: Atletico set out to frustrate Liverpool but we knew we'd get chances

Kieran Trippier admits that Atletico Madrid set out to frustrate Liverpool as they battled to a stirring Champions League last-16 win at Anfield, knowing that beating the Reds' first line of pressing would be key to creating chances.

Carrying a 1-0 advantage into the second leg against the reigning European champions, Atleti were forced into extra time by Georginio Wijnaldum's header late in the first half.

Roberto Firmino scrambled in a second to briefly set Jurgen Klopp's men on course for the quarter-finals but Marcos Llorente twice struck crisply from outside the area before fellow substitute Alvaro Morata added the final flourish in a 3-2 win.