Liverpool handed Champions League omen thanks to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

Liverpool followers have noticed an omen that it may very well be their yr within the Champions League after the Reds beat RB Leipzig on Wednesday night time.

Jurgen Klopp ‘s facet are presently prone to lacking out on qualifying for Europe’s elite competitors subsequent season after dropping to eighth within the Premier League desk.

Nevertheless, in the event that they miss out domestically, they saved their hopes of qualifying as European champions alive after reaching the quarter-finals of this yr’s event.

Objectives from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane in Budapest noticed Liverpool clinch a 4-0 mixture victory over the Bundesliga outfit to progress within the competitors.

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Nevertheless, whereas the Reds booked their place within the remaining eight of the competitors, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will each miss out for the primary time because the 2004/05 season as their Barcelona and Juventus sides had been knocked out by PSG and Porto respectively.

Messi was on the scoresheet as Barca drew 1-1 in Paris however the Spanish workforce suffered a 5-2 mixture loss on Wednesday, whereas Ronaldo’s facet gained 3-2 AET towards Porto of their second leg in Turin on Tuesday, solely to exit the competitors on away targets following a 4-4 draw.

Liverpool famously gained the event in the course of the aforementioned 2004/05 season, succeeding on penalties towards AC Milan after preventing again from 3-0 in Istanbul.

And with the 2021 remaining providing the Reds the prospect to return to the Ataturk Stadium in Turkey, the potential omen was not misplaced on followers as they dared to dream of their facet revisiting the positioning of considered one of their most well-known victories and claiming a seventh European Cup title.