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Classic Match: Arsenal 2008

"It was crazy! One moment you're basically knocked out, the second moment you're back in it. It was crazy."

Ryan Babel finds the perfect way to describe Liverpool's pulsating Champions League encounter with Arsenal at Anfield on this day in 2008.

Babel himself was only introduced into the second leg of the quarter-final with 12 minutes remaining. That, however, was enough time for the tie to spin on its head, and then again.

"Champions League nights were always something else at Anfield," the Dutchman tells Liverpoolfc.com 12 years on. "I remember a great Arsenal in that game who made it very difficult for us.