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The perfect performance: Why can't it be like this every week?

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Why can’t it be like this every week? This is exactly the kind of lift-off Liverpool's season needed. They have now qualified for the Champions League quarter-finals - following an utterly supreme d...

The perfect performance: Why can't it be like this every week? Why can’t it be like this every week? This is exactly the kind of lift-off Liverpool's season needed.

They have now qualified for the Champions League quarter-finals - following an utterly supreme display in the second leg of their last-16 tie against Galatasaray at Anfield. It could not have gone any better in truth. The team started at a high tempo, played aggressively and the crowd responded in turn.

In fact the two went hand in hand. And Arne Slot will have learned plenty from it. What a contrast it is since Sunday.

Liverpool were booed off against Tottenham following the flatest of flat displays. And here they rolled their sleeves up from the start and delivered their best, most complete performance of the season. Best performance of the season There was never any other outcome likely from the moment the game got underway.