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Heroic Liverpool stun Borussia Dortmund with late goals to win Europa League quarter-final

Mamadou Sakho celebrates his goal
Mamadou Sakho celebrates his goal

Liverpool 4-3 Borussia Dortmund (agg 5-4)

Liverpool produced a heroic comeback to beat Borussia Dortmund 4-3 at Anfield and progress to the semi-finals of the Europa League.

Henrik Mkhitaryan opened the scoring for the visitors after five minutes before Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang added another valuable away goal just four minutes later.

The German side were in control at the break, enjoying a two-goal lead and now also ahead on away goals, which meant that Liverpool needed at least three second-half goals to progress.

Divock Origi gave the home side hope three minutes after the restart to reduce the gap to one but then the home crowd were silenced when Marco Reus added a third for Dortmund in the 57th minute.

With 25 minutes remaining, Liverpool looked like they were set to be eliminated but then Philippe Coutinho's 66th-minute strike gave them some home and when Mamadou Sakho added another in the 78th minute, the tie was level at 4-4 on aggregate with Dortmund still leading by virtue of those three away goals.

Liverpool looked to be out of time as the 90 minutes elapsed but deep into injury time, Dejan Lovren struck the home side's fourth goal of the night as an ecstatic crowd roared the Reds home to a remarkable European victory.

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