They needed three goals. Not once in the game, as in Istanbul, but twice. They needed three goals after Dortmund had taken a 2-0 lead after nine minutes, and again when the score moved to 3-1 against them on 57 minutes. They needed three goals in little more than half an hour against one of the greatest sides in Europe.
And, yet, by sheer determination, they triumphed. Quite how, who knows? Divine intervention, an unexpected frailty in that mighty yellow wall, the inspiration of Anfield in full voice, simply having nothing left to lose? A sprinkling of it all, one imagines.
Every time they edged nearer the holy grail of 4-3, the decibel level went up. Yet, surely, deep down, no one thought it possible. Not even those who witnessed a miracle in 2005. That was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that could never be repeated.
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