Could The Miracle On Merseyside As Liverpool Defeat Barcelona 4–0 Presage Their First League Title In Nearly 30 Years?

Could The Miracle On Merseyside As Liverpool Defeat Barcelona 4–0 Presage Their First League Title In Nearly 30 Years?

The morning after the night before. It feels as if the Liverpool-Barcelona fixture is somehow tonight as we touch down from rapturous, jubilant reveries; a too good to be true result that must have surely been mere semblance of reality and a figment of imagination.

Just when you think that you have seen it all! This one almost pipped them all as the greatest Liverpool match of this century. I say almost because the 2005 Champions league victory in Istanbul still remains the greatest night of the 21st century for Liverpool football club — the night that may never be topped in which Liverpool overcame the 3–0 first half deficit against the catenaccio or slammed door of Paolo Maldini’s AC Milan to clinch their fifth European Cup.

But boy did this come close! The agony and the ecstasy for Barcelona and Liverpool respectively. There are no words really to describe it. Only hyperbole. What happened here in the cauldron of Anfield in the second leg semi-final was so transcendental that it could only have been one of two things — either a religious miracle or a fixed game. Liverpool will enter the final against either Tottenham or Ajax as favourites to win a sixth European Cup. Only Real Madrid and AC Milan have bettered this.