Liverpool won’t welcome the comparison, but it is starting to look like the 2018 Champions League all over again for Jurgen Klopp and his players.
A saunter through the group stage, a Portuguese team in the knockout, and the prospect of a semi-final rather less intimidating than was first imagined. Hell, there is even the chance of Real Madrid in the final.
Back then, the Reds - and the rest of the world - were convinced their ‘reward’ for coming through a difficult quarter-final was a mammoth showdown with one of the true titans of world football in the last four.
