Football

Liverpool reach last eight of Champions League despite Anfield loss to Inter Milan

By Aman Shukla

Mohamed Salah admitted Liverpool could have suffered from complacency as they crept into a fourth Champions League quarter-last in five years regardless of a rare 1-0 defeat at Anfield to Inter Milan on Tuesday. The Italian champions couldn’t scale the mountain they had to climb after losing the first leg 2-0 at home three weeks prior in spite of Lautaro Martinez’s stunning strike into the top corner soon after the hour mark. Alexis Sanchez’s red card afterwards punctured any Inter momentum and Liverpool easily held out with the extra man regardless of slipping to just a third defeat in 44 matches in all competitions this season.

Liverpool had been on a 12-game winning run to keep alive their hopes of a historic quadruple of trophies.

“We lost the game and maybe that will give us a push,” said the Egyptian, who hit the post twice in the second half with glorious chances.

“Maybe in the back of our minds we were overconfident. It’s a good game for us to learn from.”

 

Aman Shukla

Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication. A media enthusiast who has a stronghold on communication, content writing, and copy writing. Aman is currently working as a subeditor at dailyindianews.com and can be reached at [email protected]