Liverpool hold the advantage in their Champions League quarter-final with Benfica after winning 3-1 in the first leg in Lisbon on Tuesday night. Goals from Ibrahima Konate, Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz secured the victory, which sees the Reds takes a two-goal cushion going into next week’s second leg at Anfield.
Jurgen Klopp’s side went into the half-time interval with a 2-0 lead but it could have been more had his side taken their chances. Darwin Nunez struck in the second half as Benfica threatened a comeback.
But Diaz's late strike has put Liverpool firmly in command ahead of the return encounter on Merseyside next Wednesday (April 13). But before that, here's what the national media had to say, as well as our own Paul Gorst, about the victory at the Estadio da Luz.
