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Champions League: Liverpool set up QF with PSG; Atletico secure Barca showdown

IANS | March 19, 2026 10:17 AM

NEW DELHI: Goals from Dominik Szoboszlai, Hugo Ekitike, Ryan Gravenberch and Mohamed Salah at Anfield saw Liverpool overturn a first-leg deficit to secire a 4-1 aggregate victory over Galatasaray and book a Champions League quarterfinal versus Paris Saint-Germain.

Liverpool produced a performance of authority and class to emphatically overturn a 1-0 deficit from last week’s first meeting in Istanbul, with Dominik Szoboszlai, Hugo Ekitike, Ryan Gravenberch and Mohamed Salah getting the goals.

Szoboszlai opened the scoring midway through a first half that ended with Salah seeing a penalty saved, before Ekitike and Gravenberch struck in a two-minute spell soon after the restart.

With just over an hour gone, Salah did get on the scoresheet – this after a Wilfried Singo own goal had been disallowed for offside against Jeremie Frimpong – with a trademark curler for his 50th Champions League goal.

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