“It was the only moment all night when a hush descended on Anfield. A fervent crowd had been braced for the net to bulge. Instead, there was a collective state of incredulity at the sight of Mohamed Salah failing to convert a penalty just before the break. The Egyptian attacker, who had scored 10 successive spot kicks for Liverpool since missing against Real Madrid in November 2024, was furious with himself. He had got it horribly wrong — clipping the ball so tamely down the middle that the Galatasaray goalkeeper, Ugurcan Cakir, who had dived to his left, was able to use his right boot to hook it away. …”
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