Scottish Daily Mail

FOUR ANFIELD COMEBACKS

DORTMUND, 2016, EUROPA LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL — 1ST LEG: 1-1 2ND LEG: 4-3

- BY THE STARS WHO WITNESSED THEM

AUXERRE, 1991, UEFA CUP 2ND ROUND — 1ST LEG: 0-2 2ND LEG: 3-0

THERE were only 23,000 inside the stadium that night but it felt like 50,000. We hadn’t been playing well but it all came together for us. I scored an early penalty and it set us up nicely. Mike Marsh scored the second and then Mark Walters finished it off late on. I barely played in Europe for Liverpool, so it is a game I remember with huge affection.

OLYMPIACOS, 2004, CL GROUP — NEEDED 2-GOAL WIN, WON 3-1

MY crucial late goal is one of my favourites — and one of my best — because of what we went on to achieve. If we’d gone out, it would never have been mentioned again. Instead, it became very important. That goal was the reason I wanted Olympiacos to play in my testimonia­l.

CHELSEA, 2007, CL SEMI-FINAL — 1ST LEG: 0-1 2ND LEG: 1-0, WON 4-1 ON PENALTIES THE noise stays with me. Everybody talked about the clubs’ first meeting two years before but this was another level to anything I’d experience­d. We tore at them from the start and Daniel Agger levelled the tie. We had late chances to win but needed penalties. The celebratio­ns were incredible. We ended up at a party with Jude Law! I WAS injured and watched from the stand as we came back from 2-0 and 3-1 down in the second leg. I went through the emotions the fans do. When Phil Coutinho made it 3-2, we went for it and when Dejan Lovren scored the winner, I raced down the stairs — well, hobbled — on my crutches to join the celebratio­ns.

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