Liverpool have finally done it! After 15 years and eight matches, the Reds have at last beaten Real Madrid – 2-0. Truth be told, the Premier League side was way better than the visitors and completely deserved the triumph.Yet, besides the goals, two missed penalties were memorable, as Mbappe wasted a chance to equalize, and nine minutes later, Salah missed the entire goal from the spot! Luckily for the Reds, Alexis Mac Allister and Cody Gakpo were focused enough to outsmart fantastic Thibaut Courtois, who saved Real from a more convincing defeat.Liverpool break their eight-game winless run against Real Madrid 🤨 pic.twitter.com/SOS5EIodw7— B/R Football (@brfootball) November 27, 2024 Despite the Reds’ convincing domination in the first 45 minutes, Real somehow miraculously held out, especially given that Los Blancos did nothing notable except for a few unsuccessful counterattacks. On the other hand, had Darwin Nunez been a bit more concentrated, Liverpool could have been in front at the break.Namibian journalist hammers arrogant Florentino Perez in spectacular fashionThe Uruguayan wasted two excellent chances. First, Thibaut Courtois stopped him one-on-one, and then his header went narrowly wide off the Belgian’s right post. Subsequently, Real’s youngster Raul Asencio was near to netting an own goal after only four minutes but fortunately managed to make a perfect goal-line clearance.##NAJAVA_MECA_8528303##Courtois once again came to the rescue in the 51st minute, deflecting Conor Bradley’s header, but couldn’t do the same a minute later when Alexis Mac Allister broke the deadlock, bringing Liverpool a deserved lead with a precise effort from inside the area – 1-0!The Reds did not stop after the opener, continuing the pressure, but Real wouldn’t have been what they are, if they gave up easily. After their first decent attack, Andrew Robertson recklessly tackled Lucas Vazquez in the box, for a penalty kick. Still, Caoimhin Kelleher was an insurmountable obstacle for Kylian Mbappe, whose crisis’ end does not seem to be on the horizon! Nevertheless, Mohamed Salah copied the Frenchman’s move nine minutes later, failing the convert the spot kick! Only the Egyptian did not give Courtois a chance to react, missing the entire target!🚨🚨| SALAH MISSES THE PENALTY!!! pic.twitter.com/1XAaBorDfg— CentreGoals. (@centregoals) November 27, 2024 What the two superstars failed to do, Cody Gakpo managed, but from open play, sending Robertson’s cross precisely into Real’s bottom left corner with a header – 2-0! The Dutchman’s goal secured Liverpool a fifth win in the Champions League in as many matches and brought them back to the top of the table, as they remained the only team with the maximum number of points. On the other hand, Real are only 24th and will have to get serious if they don’t want to shock their fans and miss the knockout phase of the competition they had won 15 times.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ROUND 5TuesdaySlovan B – Milan 2-3 (1-1)/Barseghyan 24, Marcelli 88 – Pulisic 21, Leao 68, Abraham 70/Sparta P – Atletico Madrid 0-6 (0-2)/Alvarez 15, 59, Llorente 43, Griezman 70, Correa 85, 89/Barcelona – Brest 3-0 (1-0)/Lewandowski 10 pen, 90+2, Olmo 66/Bayern – PSG 1-0 (1-0)/Kim 38/Inter – RB Leipzig 1-0 (1-0)/Lukeba 27 og/Leverkusen – Salzburg 5-0 (3-0)/Wirtz 8 pen, 30, Grimaldo 11, Schick 61, Garcia 72/Man.City – Feyenoord 3-3 (1-0)/Haaland 44 pen, 53, Gundogan 50 – Hadj Moussa 75, Gimenez 82, Hancko 89/Sporting – Arsenal 1-5 (0-3)/Inacio 47 – Martinelli 7, Havertz 22, Gabriel 45+1, Saka 65 pen, Trossard 82/Young Boys – Atalanta 1-6 (1-4)/Ganvoula 11 – Retegui 9, 39, De Ketelaere 28, 56, Kolasinac 32, Samardzic 90+1/WednesdayCrvena Zvezda – Stuttgart 5-1 (2-1)/Silas 12, Krunic 31, Ivanic 65, Radonjic 69, 88 – Demirovic 5/Sturm – Girona 1-0 (0-0)/Biereth 59/Aston Villa – Juventus 0-0Bologna – Lille 1-2 (0-1)/Lucumi 63 – Mukau 44, 66/Celtic – Club Brugge 1-1 (0-1)/Maeda 60 – Carter-Vickers 26 og/Dinamo Zagreb – Dortmund 0-3 (0-1)/Gittens 41, Bensebaini 56, Guirassy 90/Liverpool – Real Madrid 2-0 (0-0)/Mac Allister 52, Gakpo 77/Monaco – Benfica 2-3 (1-0)/Ben Seghir 13, Magassa 67 – Pavlidis 48, Cabral 84, Amdouni 88/PSV – Shakhtar 3-2 (0-2)/Tillman 87, 90, Pepi 90+5 – Sikan 8, Zubkov 37/
