What a match lads! Above all else, a football match that gripped you, just like the matches of the past.

Arteta threw it to the wind. We could have got wasted playing those tactics, if Madrid hadn't been shit scared of us going in. But Arteta had faith in his players and every last one of them delivered to the maximum. Kiwior - they weak link. Didn't turn out that way. The star-struck Skelly - not so much. Martinelli, the off-form player - not so much. But there was one player who really, really surprised me. Partey. That's the best holding midfield performance I have seen this season. Haven't seen them all, but from what I have seen. He displayed the discipline that infuriatungly escapes him in the PL? Why? How? 10 out of 10 performance. And we're letting him go? For Zubi? Is Zubi really better than that if Partey can focus and stay that disciplined? Grass is alway greener when open pasture already exists but hasn't been explored (Probably an old Chinese proverb).

Anyway, you'll never see two better FKs that those in one match. Never happened before, never will again. That's football at its peak - the best you can get. How Rice managed it, no idea. That he manged it, well done son take a bow, as a well know and much missed properly misogynist commentator would say. When are we getting those effing women out of our sport btw? Go and make coffee!

Saka - out for 3 months. 10x better than Mbappe. Never rated Mbappe. No Henry, that's for sure. I'm sure he's a good player, but it ends there. Don't want him here with all his baggage. He's more of a PR stunt than a footballer. Obviously he's ruined Ancelotti's gameplan for Madrid. Everything went to him and he fucked it all up? Bad night? No. Saw him on occasions before. Pure hype. Sake = real deal.

Merino - WTF? He might beat Havertz on the scorers chart. Bloke got asked to do an impossible job and he's making a fist of it. Didn't get in the box for the tap-ins, sure. But that finish. Imagine if Mbappe had done it? Damdn, the newspaper headlines. Wonder goal!

Should have been 5 or 6. We smashed them. Worst Real side I have seen in years. Mostly because of Mbappe and that other bloke up front who can't kick a ball, Vini-something. Useless. Or else he's been screwed having to play second fiddle to the marketing product that is Mbappe.

Just goes to show. Let's leave Isak and Sesko on the shelf and get ourseselves a good honest, real deal, Gyokeres.

Magical night. Still wondering how we haven't found that form to overhaul a very ordinary Liverpool in the PL.