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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Richard Jolly

Roberto Firmino’s shift in status only serves to underline Liverpool’s new strength in depth

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The reminder of the past came at the last. It was stoppage time by the time Divock Origi made it on the pitch.

He is as indelibly associated with European Cup knockout ties as David Fairclough and, to all intents and purposes, they were both spectators at Anfield now - but the last time Liverpool won a Champions League quarter- or semi-final on home turf it was when Origi was the unlikely assassin of Barcelona.

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