And that’s that! After the whistle goes, Klopp gets involved in a screaming match with what remains of the Sevilla bench. “Why are you shouting at me? What did I do?” Dignity, Jurgen, dignity! Liverpool were the better attacking force for the majority, but Sevilla the smarter side. And the visitors played their way back into contention during the second half, after nearly losing sight of Liverpool during the first. A missed penalty and the usual defensive frailties cost the hosts, but they were up against a very good team who weren’t going to let them off with their mistakes. A deserved draw, and it’s a mixed bag for the Reds on their return to the Champions League. Last word to our very own answer to Mystic Meg, Jon Taylor: “Yep. A dance as old as time.”

90 min +4: Gomez walks for a late lunge in the midfield on Muriel. A second yellow, he can have no complaints.

90 min +3: Coutinho takes, and hits deep. Wijnaldum rises, but a soft header flies into Rico’s arms like a feather. Then Sevilla go up the other end. Muriel latches onto a long ball. Gomez gets confused under it, and suddenly Muriel is free! But he slides his shot wide left when it was easier to score!

90 min +2: Good old-fashioned bustling from Oxlade-Chamberlain and Sturridge earns a throw deep in Sevilla territory down the right. From the throw, Oxlade-Chamberlain wins another corner.

90 min +1: Oxlade-Chamberlain forces a corner down the right. Sevilla half clear it. Henderson returns a header, but it’s an easy snaffle for Rico.

90 min: There will be four added minutes.

89 min: Now Lovren slaps a simple clearing header straight to Escudero. Once again, the crowd are not fully impressed with his contributions.

88 min: Under no pressure whatsoever, Lovren shanks a pass into the stand down the left. The crowd let him have it. Then Liverpool’s final change, as Salah is replaced by Oxlade-Chamberlain.

87 min: Correa forces a corner off Moreno down the Sevilla right. Sarabia wanders out slowly to take it. Correa is allowed to flick on a header at the near post, but fortunately for Liverpool, there’s nobody in white in the six-yard box to bundle home.

86 min: Liverpool’s final-third passing is all over the shop now. It’s all very scrappy. Meanwhile Maribor have equalised against Spartak.

85 min: Coutinho drops a shoulder and, for a second, looks to have opened up a huge flank of space down the left. But he’s crowded out of it on the edge of the box.

83 min: A change apiece. Jesus Navas is replaced by Sebastien Corchia; Sadio Mane by Daniel Sturridge.

82 min: Salah and Coutinho attempt to power their way down the left, but they’re never in total control of their dribbles. A hint of desperation in Liverpool’s play now. Their earlier dominance went some time ago; now the fluency’s gone too.

80 min: Coutinho, quarterbacking from deep, chips a pass down the inside-left for Salah. But the pass is overcooked, too much for even the whippet-fast Salah. Had that been weighted properly, Salah was free.

79 min: Matip slices hysterically into the air under no pressure whatsoever, and concedes a corner under pressure from Muriel. Fortunately for the centre back, the set piece comes to nothing. But Anfield, warm and wobbly earlier on, is cold and shaky now. A lot of nerves crackling around.

78 min: Henderson hoops a ball down the right. Kjaer tries to usher it out of play. Salah makes sure he concedes a corner. Lovren rises to meet the set piece, but there are no Dortmund-style heroics here, as his header flies harmlessly high into the Kop.

76 min: Can is replaced by ... Coutinho. And the little Brazilian is given a warm reception as he runs on, then a cheer as he takes his first touch.

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74 min: Mercado, already on a yellow, stands in the way of Mane as the Liverpool man makes off down the left. The referee waves play on, then does nothing as the Liverpool move peters out. Which is fair enough. Both sides have had the benefit of one now.

Out of nothing, Sevilla are level! From a throw, Muriel bustles in from the left. Nobody bothers to challenge him. He flicks a pass down the inside-left channel, and Correa is free in the box! He opens his body and curls powerfully into the top right, leaving Karius with no chance! That penalty miss looks costly now!

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71 min: Moreno cynically gets in the way of Sarabia in the midfield. Sarabia waves the imaginary yellow card that would see Moreno sent off. The referee doesn’t react. Moreno got away with one there.

69 min: Luis Muriel comes on for the Sevilla goalscorer Wissam Ben Yedder.

68 min: Henderson curls it into the mixer. N’Zonzi heads it out to Wijnaldum, who arrows a low shot towards the bottom left. Rico does very well to turn the ball around the post, seeing the ball late through a crowded box. The resulting corner is easily cleared.

67 min: Moreno crosses from the left. Jesus Navas sticks up a hand, and that’ll be a free kick just to the left of the Sevilla penalty box.

65 min: Salah wriggles out of a thicket of players out on the right, reaches the side of the area, and finds Mane on the edge of the D. Mane, his back to goal, smoothly spins and looks for the top left. He finds the top left of the Kop. That would have been a very pretty goal had it gone in.

64 min: Banega swings in the resulting free kick, and the offside flag goes up.

63 min: Spartak Moscow have taken the lead at Maribor. Meanwhile back in Liverpool, Gomez is booked for a cynical tug on the brilliant Correa’s shirt as the Sevilla star goes down the left.

62 min: Salah has a bobble from 20 yards. It’s not very good, but Rico turns it around the right-hand post anyway. The resulting corner is a non-event. Liverpool are soon coming back at Sevilla, Firmino turning N’Zonzi this way and that. He drags a shot meant for the bottom left wide of the post from 25 yards.

60 min: The Sevilla panto continues! Coach Berizzo catches a ball sailing out of play. Instead of handing it to Gomez, standing right next to him, he ostentatiously throws the ball down the touchline. There’s only going to be one outcome after the earlier, very similar brouhaha: the referee sends him to the stands! He departs, but only after accusing Klopp of getting him sent off. Klopp did have his say, it’s true, but it’s probably best that Berizzo takes ownership of that one.

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59 min: Mane drops a shoulder out on the left and looks to Coutinho a shot into the top right from distance. Nope!

58 min: Salah shimmies down the right before scooping a poor cross out of play with options in the box. His shooting and decision making is a wee bit erratic, but he’s a bundle of energy and always involved.

56 min: Mane busts down the left, rides a couple of challenges, and squirts the ball inside for Can, who has a larrup from 25 yards. It’s going wide left, and hits Firmino on its way through anyway. A poor shot, really, as the ball was sitting up very invitingly with no Sevilla player in position to close down in time.

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55 min: It’s beautifully poised, this game. Sevilla are in control again, passing it around with ease in the middle of the park. But this Liverpool side are a coiled spring. Good luck guessing who’ll score next. It surely won’t end 2-1.

53 min: But suddenly Liverpool crank up the pace. A couple of surges starring Salah down the right. Then from the halfway line, Matip decides to go on a Beckenbaueresque dribble down the inside-right channel. He nearly breaks clear into the box! But in looking to make space to shoot, he passes up the chance to set up Wijnaldum on his inside. It would have been the better bet, but you can’t fault him for getting giddy. That was a glorious skitter!

52 min: Sevilla are on the front foot right now, re-energised by the half-time break. Liverpool’s momentum appears to be broken. Pass, pass, passity, pass.

51 min: Philippe Coutinho is warming up on the touchline. He hasn’t been hit by a wet fish, rotten tomato or flying cabbage yet. Do you think the Anfield faithful are preparing to forgive him? The early signs are good.

49 min: Good work by Sarabia down the right, but the Sevilla sub couldn’t find Ben Yedder in the middle. Then another phase of attack by the visitors, the relentless Correa making good down the left. His fizz towards the near post is nearly trapped by Ben Yedder, but not quite.

48 min: Sevilla coach Eduardo Berizzo is given a ticking off by the ref for brazenly flinging the ball away as Liverpool prepared to take a quickthrow in the midfield. Good knockabout stuff. All it needed for pantomime perfection was added Jose Mourinho.

46 min: Henderson hooks a pass down the left to send Mane scampering dangerously goalwards again. He cuts inside and shoots, but the effort’s blocked pretty much at source by Pareja.

Here we go again! Sevilla get the ball rolling for the second half. No changes. Liverpool are shooting towards the Kop now. It’s goalless in the other Group E game between Maribor and Spartak Moscow, by the way. And here’s Jon Taylor: “Since at least Roy Evans’ era, one of the most maddeningly frequent phrases you’ll hear when watching Liverpool is ‘We’ll, we did wonder if they’d come to rue those missed chances.’ This has the feel of another of those games.”

Half-time reading: So we’ve had yet another penalty in the Champions League. What’s going on? Barry Glendenning p.i. investigates.

Just time for Sarabia to swing a free kick into the Liverpool box from the right, Karius to punch powerfully clear, Liverpool to break, and Moreno to flash a shot at Rico from a tight angle down the left, with Salah and Firmino nearly getting to the rebound in the middle! Yes, just enough time for all that. There goes the whistle, and it’s half time. That fair whizzed by. Excellent entertainment, both teams looking very lively in attack, but Liverpool especially so. It promises to be a fun second 45. Don’t be going anywhere now!

45 min: Confirmation that Banega was the Sevilla man booked after Liverpool’s second goal. Meanwhile Pablo Sarabia comes on for Guido Pizarro, who has developed a limp. There will be two added minutes.

44 min: The much-maligned Moreno has been excellent tonight. He tears down the left and wheechs a gorgeous ball along the corridor of uncertainty. Any red shirt nearby, and it’s a tap-in. But both Mane and Firmino are just off the pace.

42 min: A John Aldridge stutter by Firmino. He sends Rico the wrong way, but with the right-hand portion of the goal gaping, hits the right-hand post! The ball clanks away from danger. It wasn’t the worst penalty kick you’ll ever see, but bottom line is, it hasn’t gone in.

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41 min: Moreno wins a header he never should win out on the left above Mercado. Mane scampers into the area and looks to clip the ball past Pareja. There’s a hint of handball, but the referee doesn’t have to make a decision on that one, as Pareja then brazenly takes Mane down from behind!

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39 min: Moreno is booked for a ludicrously late leg across Jesus Navas. A Sevilla player got booked for protesting Salah’s challenge on N’Zonzi in the lead-up to the goal, incidentally, but I’ll need to get back to you on identity.

Firmino exchanges rat-a-tat passes in the middle of the park with Wijnaldum. He sprays it wide right for Gomez, who slips inside for Salah. Salah’s first touch is poor, and it looks as though the danger is gone as N’Zonzi strides away. But N’Zonzi is striding away in the insouciant manner, and allows Salah to get back at him, steal the ball, turn and shoot. The ball takes a huge deflection off Kjaer, and loops into the top right over the stranded Rico! Not much of a shot, but brilliant persistence from Salah!

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