This wasn't how Thiago Alcantara had envisaged his Liverpool career going.
A Champions League quarter-final first leg at Real Madrid should have been the ideal stage for the Spaniard to strut his stuff in his native country against familiar opposition.
Instead, the midfielder found himself watching on from the bench, only introduced three minutes before half-time by which stage the Reds were 2-0 down, a deficit from which they were never able to recover.
