Liverpool have one foot in the last four of the Champions League after easing past a profilgate Porto at Anfield on Tuesday.
2018/2019 UEFA Champions League
2-0
Match Events
5' GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Porto (Keita)
LIVERPOOL GET THE EARLY LEAD!! Milner plays a beautiful long ball out on the other wing to Mane, who dribbles past a couple of defenders before finding Firmino in the box, and the Brazil forward plays the onrushing Keita on the edge of the area whose heavily deflected shot bamboozles Casillas and goes in the back of the net! First blood to Klopp’s Reds, who are 1-0 up with only five minutes played!
22' Salah misses a golden chance!
26' GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Porto (Firmino)
EXCELLENT TEAM GOAL!! Liverpool play it around from the back and continue up the pitch towards the Porto half, ending with an exquisitely threaded throughball by Henderson towards the path of the overlapping Alexander-Arnold, and the full-back crosses it low to Firmino who is able to tap the ball into an empty net!
34' MISS! Firmino's shot over the bar
48' OFFSIDE! Mane's goal disallowed
63' CHANCE! Salah's shot saved
Match Report
Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino were on target as Liverpool eased to a 2-0 win in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Porto.
The Portuguese champions had revenge on the mind after being dumped out by Jurgen Klopp's side in the last 16 of last year's competition but a disappointing first-half performance has given them an almighty task in next week's return fixture at the Estadio do Dragao.
Keita's second goal in less than a week got the Reds up and running after just five minutes before Firmino added a simple second in the 26th minute.
Liverpool did most of the pressing in the second half – Sadio Mane coming closest from long range – but they were unable to find a third that would have all but ended the tie as a contest.
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