Alexis Sanchez must have felt his miserable days of loathing in England’s north-west were behind him. He was wrong. Sanchez — now an Inter player after his dismal time at Manchester United — had a defining influence on events at Anfield but for entirely the wrong reasons.
Having just provided the assist for his strike partner Lautaro Martinez to drive the Italian team into a second-leg lead with a superb goal on the hour, Sanchez was doubtless readying himself to be part of a late cavalry charge towards the Anfield Road End.
But within minutes the Chile forward was off the field.