Liverpool 4 Borussia Dortmund 3 player ratings: Who inspired the Reds in superb comeback?
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Your support makes all the difference.Liverpool have form for stunning European comebacks and this will go down alongside the best of them as they snatched an added-time winner to beat Borussia Dortmund in a modern-day Anfield classic.
All hope seemed lost at 2-0 down - 3-1 on aggregate - after 10 minutes and later at 3-1 behind on the night and 4-2 adrift over the two legs, but the hosts dug deep and produced a remarkable turnaround which saw Dejan Lovren score a dramatic winner. A 4-3 win carried Liverpool through 5-4 on aggregate.
Manager Jurgen Klopp's assertion back in November that "we decide when it is over" rang true as his players, while not of the 2005 Istanbul vintage, gave every part of their being to put them into the Europa League semi-finals.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang put the visitors ahead early on, cancelling out Liverpool's away goal in Germany, before Divock Origi's fourth goal in his last three games offered some hope.
Marco Reus appeared to have extinguished hopes but Mamadou Sakho and Lovren, both central defenders, proved to be the unlikeliest of heroes on a night when Klopp's side came of age.
But who inspired the Reds to their historic win at Anfield?
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