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With a place in the knockout stages of the Champions League already sealed, the Reds made the trip to PSV Eindhoven midweek without Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Mohamed Salah and Luis Diaz.

Liverpool were predictably incoherent, starting as they did with a past his best left back in central defence and a mishmash of young talent and second stringers throughout the XI. A Cody Gakpo penalty sent them ahead before a wonderfully worked equaliser that had Reds defenders flying around the pitch like a water slide pegged them back.

Liverpool have the chance to seal the top spot in their Champions League group next week and they could go all the way to win the competition.