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Despite the relative disappointment on the pitch in recent years, Liverpool Football Club has been witness to some incredible nights over the years. You may well have your own favourite, but here are some of the ones that stand out to me:<\/p>\n
Liverpool 3 – St. Etienne 1<\/h3>\n
Liverpool travelled to France for the first-leg of the quarter-final of the European Cup in 1977. They lost 1-0 and the lack of an away goal led many to believe the Reds might struggle at Anfield. Kevin Keegan gave Liverpool the lead but an equaliser in the 50th minute meant that the Reds needed to score two to progress. Ray Kennedy scored the first before David Fairclough, the \u2018super sub\u2019 netted the second with six minutes remaining on the clock.<\/p>\n
Liverpool 3 – Olympiakos 1<\/h3>\n
Liverpool\u2019s march to Champions League glory in Istanbul in 2005 was moments away from never happening. It was the final match of the group stage of the competition and the head-to-head record between the Reds and Greeks meant that Liverpool needed to win by two clear goals. An early one for the visitors meant that the Reds needed to net three times in 64 minutes without reply or they would be out. Florent Sinama-Pongolle scored the first before Neil Mellor grabbed the second with nine minutes remaining. Who else but Steven Gerrard could score the winner?<\/p>\n
Liverpool 1 – Chelsea 0<\/h3>\n
Rafa Benitez had pulled off a tactical masterstroke in the first-leg of Liverpool\u2019s Champions League semi-final against Chelsea. A 0-0 against Jos\u00e9 Mourinho\u2019s men made it clear exactly what needed to be done. The Kop produced enough noise to cause the Chelsea players to lose their ability to even pass the ball, with the roof being lifted off when Luis Garcia\u2019s shot was adjudged to have crossed the line.<\/p>\n
Liverpool 4 – Borussia Dortmund 3<\/h3>\n
A 1-1 draw at the Westfalenstadion was enough to give J\u00fcrgen Klopp hope that his embryonic Liverpool side could progress to the semi-final of the Europa League against his former club Borussia Dortmund. Two goals in the opening nine minutes at Anfield silenced the crowd, with Marco Reus making it 3-1 with 33 minutes to play. Coutinho made it 3-2 before Sakho got the equaliser. In stoppage time Dejan Lovren nodded in the winner and Anfield was the noisiest it had been since the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Evertonians like to sing a song that begins, \u201cAnd if you know your history\u2026\u201d It\u2019s a song about how they don\u2019t care what Liverpool supporters say, but that their hearts glow when they think of Everton\u2019s glorious past. Perhaps that\u2019s because their past is so inescapably intertwined with the history of Anfield? There\u2019s never any real point in trying to figure out what Bluenoses are thinking from one minute to the next, to be honest\u2026 Here, though, I\u2019ll guide you through the history of Anfield as a stadium. We\u2019ll go from the dark days when Everton used to play their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":594,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions\/2524"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}