Reds are into the Champions League final after coming back from three goals down for incredible Anfield win
Liverpool, three down against five-time European Cup winners Barcelona in the first leg, scored four without response.
It was extraordinary.
Divock Origi and substitute Georginio Wijnaldum both scored twice to take Liverpool storming back to next month’s final.
This victory, the manner of it, muscles in on Istanbul, when Liverpool recovered from 3-0 down in the 2005 Champions League final to beat Milan.
They lifted the trophy that year and they are threatening to win it again.
At the final whistle this place was rocking, with Liverpool supporters starting to dream of winning the thing in Madrid next month.
Anything is possible.
Finalists last season, Liverpool will believe they can go one step further after this riotous Anfield night.
It is amazing to think that they did all this without Mo Salah and Roberto Firmino.
The clincher arrived 11 minutes from time when Trent Alexander-Arnold dummied the entire Barca defence from a corner.
With backs were turned, he returned to take it quickly and send it into the swinging boot of Origi.
From there Liverpool’s back-up striker made no mistake with a clinical, ruthless forward’s finish.
There was no way back for Barca.
They were done, giving a going thorough working over by this extraordinary Liverpool side.
Their powers of resilience, their ability to drag themselves back from 3-0 down in the first leg, is legendary already.
If they win it, these boys will be immortalised.
Seven minutes in, they started to believe.
Divock Origi, matchwinner against Newcastle last Saturday, shook the Kop with the opener.
Liverpool had been charging around, leaving a foot in here and there as they tried to unseat Barca.
They did just that when Origi scored, tapping in from close range after Jordan Henderson forced his way into the area.
Jordi Alba had made an uncharacteristic mistake, failing to clear Joel Matip’s raking crossfield pass to Sadio Mane.
A few touches later, via the boots of Mane, Henderson and Origi, Liverpool had taken an early lead. They needed two more, at least.
Barcelona were rattled, with this frenzied opening spell causing alarm and panic in those opening minutes.
The Liverpool left-back, who clashed with Suarez in the 3-0 Nou Camp defeat, was forced off at the break.
Anfield, sensing the anxiety flooding through this Barca side, crackled with anticipation.
The oppo had been clawing their way back into it, with Messi sniffing around the penalty area in search of No601.
Alisson saved well from the Little Master and Joel Matip pinched the ball of his toes on the edge of the area in another move.
Then Messi turned provider, waiting for Philippe Coutinho to steam in from the left to sidefoot an effort towards Alisson.
There was danger everywhere.
Sergio Busquets was booked just before the break, launching himself through the air to nobble Fabinho.
It was that kind of night, with players threatening to take their petty little squabbles to another level.
The Champions League stirs passions, with this intoxicating second leg firing up these Liverpool footballers.
They needed another at the start of the second half, the nerve-jangling goal that would have driven them on.
Virgil van Dijk nearly got it, denied by the quick-witted response of Marc-Andre Ter Stegen when he turned away his chance on the half-turn.
Barca did not survive much longer.
Klopp’s boys were on to something, convinced they could get the goals to send them out.
It turned out to be 31 seconds of heaven.
That was the time between the kick-off for Liverpool’s second and the moment Wijnaldum’s header rippled the nylon of Ter-Stegen’s netting for the third.
His first arrived after Trent Alexander-Arnold sent in a low, angled cross that was drilled in to make it 2-0 by Wijnaldum.
He had only been on the pitch since the start of the half, pressed into action when Robertson was done.
It was turning into his night.
His next came 56 minutes in, with Milner working the angle for Shaqiri to cross towards Wijnaldum.
The leap was spectacular, powering his header beyond the static figure of Ter Stegen.
Here we go then.
There was only one winner after that, with Liverpool sending men forward in search of a fourth before the 90 were up.
They got it when TAA sent in his quick-witted corner for Origi to stick past Ter-Stegen.
Liverpool barely had time to catch their breath before the reality started to sink in.
Whatever happens in the final against Ajax or Tottenham, they have just played their part in football’s greatest game.
For that, they deserve their place in history.
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