"In the city of the Beatles," wrote one Portuguese newspaper this week, "Benfica will have to play a different tune." And while they certainly fired up the band on a strange old night at Anfield, Liverpool proved they knew the dance.
By now, the Reds are wily enough to successfully navigate the pitfalls of a Champions League quarter-final and this is the third time in four years they have emerged as victors at this stage of Europe's most grandiose competition under Jurgen Klopp.
Liverpool can now add Benfica's name to Manchester City and Porto as teams they have dispatched in the last eight, even if this one was a bit more irritable and chaotic than those previous triumphs.
