Evening all, and welcome to .... ... the first leg of..... ....Atletico Madrid v Liverpool.... ...in the last 16 of the Champions League!

Weird how the scorer has the same name as the team.

Henderson puts a ball down the right for Salah, but Felipe comes across to see him away.

Liverpool are in this game now, but Atleti are sitting off them. I'm not sure they've quite the same evilness now Godin is at Inter and Gimenez is on the bench, but you can be sure they'll be drilled to within a milimetre of their lives.

Alexander-Arnold flights another nondescripter over the bar.

That goal has properly set this tie up. All of a sudden, Liverpool can't afford to concede another, Atleti have something onto which they can hang, and the, er, waste has got real.

Firmino wins the ball in midfield and finds Wijnaldum, and the ball goes wide to Alexander-Arnold, who flights something - I'm not sure what - over the bar.

On the touchline, Simeone is doing his absolute nut. We need a camera on him, and a picture inset.

Liverpool have barely had a touch in the Atleti half, but they enjoy a bit of comforting possession before an overhit long ball is collected by Oblak.

The ground is absolutely jumping.

Atleti are well into this, and Saul strokes a lovely ball in behind Alexander-Arnold for Correa, He drives a low cross across the face of the box, but the flag is up.

There's a brief hiatus while VAR checks for offside - it's one of those where you're suspicious because that kind of space hardly ever exists in the box - but the way the play unfolded, no real surprise that the goal was kosher.

GOAL! Atletico 1-0 Liverpool (Saul) Koke's corner is a good one, swung out right into the heart of the box where it hits Fabinho's foot and bounces behind him ... and there's Saul, right of centre, alone and palely loitering! From four yards, he lifts over Alisson into the far corner, and here we go! What a roar that is!

Lodi squares up Alexander-Anrnold, shifting the ball and crossing; Van Dijk gets it away, just, and Atleti force a corner...

Nice from Correa, who skirts around Robertson and knocks wider to Vrsaljko, whose cross is a goodun, but there's no one in the middle and Alexander-Arnold heads away. Atleti have started nicely.

Morata chases Gomez and kicks him over.

I reckon Atletico would take a 0-0 here. And Simeone would chew his own face off for a 1-0.

Off we go!

On the bench, Diego Costa looks suitably juiced up. Of course he does.

There's some big old tifosi going on opposite the tunnel, as the ball is unplinthed. How did we get through 130 years of football without that?

HERE THEY COME!

The players are arriving in the tunnel.