Liverpool were simply outclassed

Emmanuel Alfred

It was a game of the European elite. The one percent of the percent. The clash of the proverbial titans.

Real Madrid are 14 time winners of the champions league and Liverpool with 6.

The first half was the most frenetic champions league game I have ever seen with four goals being scored.

Liverpool drew first blood when Darwin Nunez scored from an audacious flick after an eye in the needle pass from Mohammed Salah that will make Mesut Özil jealous. The reds got their second when Thibaut Courtois extended Valentine’s day to gift Salah a goal and give him a sense of “a long awaited revenge.”

But the White Angels were not having it as Vinicius Jnr conjured a goal out of fiction to half the deficit (I hope Rashford was watching) . Alison Becker couldn’t help but bask on the Valentine’s day extension by a fellow comrade to give Vini jnr and Madrid an equalizer to restore parity at halftime.

Then Madrid showed that there are levels to this

Step in the ageless wine, Luka Modric who teed up Eder Militao to head home from the set piece and make it 3-2 before Karim Benzema took the Liverpool defense on a carousel of one-twos before scoring his first of the night.

The current Balon D’or winner wasn’t done when he scored a goal that underlined his coolness Infront of goal and Madrid’s fluidity on the counter to take the game to 5-2.

The game showed that Liverpool side still has a weakness in the midfield area but made us realize that maybe Madrid can do without Toni kroos.

There is a second leg to be played but on the night, Madrid showed why they are the most successful club in the UEFA champions league