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The odds are stacked against Liverpool after the first-leg humiliation against Real Madrid. Soccrates Images/Getty Images. CNN —.

We will try to go all in out there from the first minute, but we have more questions and responsibility than our rival.” “It will help us to play a different game [on Wednesday]. “If we can surprise in a negative way, we should also be able to surprise ourselves in a positive way,” Klopp added. We respect the competition and the opponent too much not to look forward to this game. We are not going to play a closed game, but play our best offensive football. “We’re here to play an extremely strong opponent and try to win the game. “Now we know there’s a game to play. “Liverpool will have to go all the way to get the best from the first minute, no matter what. That makes the game in Madrid all the more daunting, with all signs pointing to the aggregate scoreline getting even more embarrassing for Klopp and his men. And to win it we have to play extremely good.” In the aftermath of the defeat to Bournemouth, Klopp said Liverpool’s disappointing season meant the team had “learned to deal with setbacks.” If the team could continue to play like that – with pace, confidence and conviction in its ideas – maybe, just maybe, all hope wasn’t lost in the Champions League following the

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Liverpool 'put out of misery' by Champions League holders Real Madrid, Napoli advance to quarter-finals.

The only time Madrid failed to advance in the Champions League after winning the first leg on the road was in 2019, when it was eliminated by Ajax in the round of 16. "We showed from the start that we wanted to attack, so it was a good match for the fans and we are into the quarterfinals." "Put out of their misery by the first goal of the evening." [Madrid walloped the Reds 5-2 in the first leg at Anfield](https://wwos.nine.com.au/football/uefa-champions-league-2023-liverpool-real-madrid-thibaut-courtois-darwin-nunez-highlights/62ba5943-a862-44d3-9a3c-e4ad456839ea), Liverpool required a miracle which never got close to materialising despite no shortage of endeavour. [Champions League](https://wwos.nine.com.au/football/champions-league) by holders Real Madrid who eased to a 1-0 round of 16 win at the Bernabeu on Thursday (AEDT). Liverpool were "put out of their misery" in the

It is not clear if Jürgen Klopp knows his best team right now and that has resulted in a late-Wenger inefficiency.

There is a kind of late-Wenger inefficiency to them at the moment: a team searching in real time for something that has been lost, trying to salvage not simply a game or a tempo but an idea. Perhaps this explains why Liverpool are such an imperfect team now: a squad of players all operating at different speeds, on different wavelengths, at different levels of fitness and confidence. And when the moment comes to debrief this tie, they will probably reflect that it was won and lost in that pivotal passage at Anfield when they let in five goals. Trent Alexander-Arnold is currently in the stage of acute bafflement that an elite athlete undergoes when their body is simply no longer doing what they tell it to do. There were fleeting moments when this game still felt alive, still felt like a last-16 second leg between two of the giants of world football. And as a souvenir of the night, perhaps even the tie as a whole, you could do a lot worse.

Real Madrid cruised into the quarter-finals of the Champions League, beating Liverpool 1-0 at the Bernabeu to progress 6-2 on aggregate.

In the end, not even a goal for the travelling Liverpool supporters to get excited about. No comeback. No miracle.

There was no historic comeback for Liverpool. Real Madrid's title defense in the Champions League rolls into the quarterfinals.

It was an open match at the Bernabéu and Madrid had its chances as well, with Eduardo Camavinga coming close to scoring in the 20th with a shot from outside the area that struck the crossbar after a deflection by Alisson Becker. Liverpool had managed a big comeback at home in the 2019 semifinals, rallying against another Spanish club, Barcelona. It had won six of its last seven matches against Liverpool in the tournament, drawing another. [Liverpool](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/liverpool-football-club/) never really came close to overcoming its three-goal deficit from the first leg against the titleholders at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium on Wednesday, losing 1-0 to end its hopes of another run to the final. He limped during the goal celebration but said afterward it was just a knock. The France striker, who had missed Madrid’s Spanish league win against Espanyol last weekend because of an injury, has scored 13 goals in his last eight Champions League knockout stage matches.

This game was almost as dispiriting as the 5-2 thrashing inflicted on Liverpool at Anfield last month. Real Madrid might not have run up the goals as they did ...

Equally, look long and hard at this squad and the reality is this is not one in need of the "open heart surgery" that Ralf Rangnick called for at Old Trafford last season. Add not just Bellingham but someone behind him who can convincingly shield a defense like Fabinho used to and the Liverpool midfield goes from a chasm of chaos to a game-winning component of a side filled with talent elsewhere. This great Liverpool side was not forged in the space of one summer, nor will it be torn down and replaced with something of comparable excellence quite so quickly. One of the ways in which Liverpool have particularly excelled in the transfer market is cashing in on promising youngsters who probably will not make their team but might improve others. Losing the Van Dijk of old is probably going to offer the most profound tactical headache for Liverpool, who could play a high line that might otherwise have been cavalier because they had the best recovery defender in the world, a player with the physicality and eye for danger to shut down counters before they had begun. It is, however, not remotely guaranteed that a player coveted by Real Madrid and Manchester City will pick the Reds even if they have long been considered favorites for his signature. The England international was viewed as a Klopp player in waiting even before he went to the German's former club, Borussia Dortmund. The same might be said if Liverpool ever wanted to get out of the Thiago business (there is no evidence they do). The attack looks set and supplementing it will be a trio of youngsters who have established themselves as players who should have a role at Liverpool over the coming years: Harvey Elliott, Stefan Bajcetic and Fabio Carvalho. Those two and Alisson should be safely ensconced in the Anfield rearguard for several years to come. Last year, Liverpool took every competition in which they were involved to the final kick in the final game. The great front three that fired Klopp's side to Premier League and Champions League glory was probably torn apart too late in the day, but there are at least signs of a successor trident being forged at Anfield.