Alexis Mac Allister discovered a well past Thibaut Courtois as Liverpool beat Actual Madrid
Andy Robertson and a number of other of his Liverpool team-mates might be forgiven for feeling a way of deja vu as they watched Thibaut Courtois pull off a string of sensible saves at Anfield final evening.
Courtois produced an excellent show as Actual Madrid received the Champions League ultimate in Paris in 2022, denying Jurgen Klopp’s Reds earlier than Vinicius Jr struck the one aim of the sport 14 minutes into the second half.
It seemed like the enormous Belgian would break Liverpool hearts once more final evening with commanding blocks to maintain out a Dominik Szoboszlai shot and a Virgil van Dijk header as the house facet pressed for the opening aim.
He was finally overwhelmed by Alexis Mac Allister’s header from a Szoboszlai free-kick as Liverpool edged an absorbing encounter 1-0.
Robertson informed Liverpoolfc.com: “Actually pleasing. Glad we constructed on Saturday, attempting to convey that consistency again.
“I believed from minute one we have been all bang there tonight and simply carried on from Saturday by way of being exhausting to beat, working exhausting for one another, all the time attempting to assist your mate out. Then I believed the standard was there as properly.
“I believed their ’keeper [Thibaut Courtois] was excellent, he clearly managed to maintain the rating down. We had a couple of large probabilities, particularly at the beginning of the second half. However 1-0, a satisfying evening, an enormous three factors for us and now we transfer on.”
He’s an unbelievable keeper – Robertson hails Courtois
He added on Courtois: “You simply need to preserve going. In all probability the lads who performed within the ultimate in Paris [in 2022] had a little bit of déjà vu! He’s an unbelievable ’keeper, distinctive, and he all the time appears to convey out his greatest in opposition to us.
“He’s actually exhausting to beat however fortunately we simply stored knocking on the door and we believed that if we stored creating the possibilities we might hopefully knock it down finally, and fortunately Macca popped up and bought the aim.
“Then we may in all probability have scored extra, the sport actually opened up. We have been then defending and taking part in on the counter-attack, which in all probability suited us within the final 10 to fifteen minutes and simply if that final go was proper we may have been in one-on-one.
“However everybody labored their socks off immediately, even the lads coming off the bench actually performed their half as properly, and [it was] an enormous all-round efficiency immediately.”
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It was a second successive win for Liverpool following on from Saturday’s defeat of Aston Villa and Robertson hopes they will now present some improved kind following a troublesome run.
The Scotland worldwide added: “It’s necessary now that we’ve to be constant: that was the message immediately earlier than the sport, we want the consistency again within the sport, and I feel we actually introduced that.
“However we’ve bought one other huge sport on Sunday [at Manchester City] and it’s going to be powerful. We’ve put lots into this week already and it’s going to be troublesome, however we clearly go there with extra confidence than we had final week in order that’s pleasing.”