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Liverpool 0-0 Flamengo

Oooof! Does Rafinha clean out Mane as he is about to shoot? Yes. Is it in the area? Not sure. The referee runs over to the touchline to look at the pitchside monitor...

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Liverpool 0-0 Flamengo

Chance! Sadio Mane is clean through... scuffs it wide!! Hang on... VAR is having a look. Drama!!

Into Kloppage time... five minutes of it.

Naby Keita turns on the halfway line and sticks on the gas. Vitinho tracks with him but won't be able to stop him legally. So he does it illegally and sees yellow as a result.

If anyone is going to win this in normal time then it'll be Liverpool. There, I've said it...

Heading towards the critical stage now. Remember: extra time looms if there is no late winner.

Liverpool huffing and puffing but not blowing the Flamengo house down. The corner following that marvellous save is met by Virgil van Dijk, who heads down into the turf and over the bar.

Stephen Warnock
Ex-Liverpool defender on BBC One

That was all about Sadio Mane. Jordan Henderson tries to bend it round the defender, fantastic save, but it was all about Sadio Mane's first touch to take him away from his marker.

No idea how a goalkeeper gets cramp but Diego Alves has it. It quickly disappears as he manages to leap high to his left and push Jordan Henderson's curling effort over the bar. So close!

Another chance for Liverpool. Naby Keita skips into space on the right, cutting back to Mo Salah. The Egyptian shoots but sees his effort blocked by the, er, nether regions of Pablo Mari.

Stephen Warnock
Ex-Liverpool defender on BBC One

It is one we see so often at the moment. It is not a foul, he doesn't make that much - if any - contact. Salah's first touch was poor, tries to get the body in to protect himself. Not sure it is a yellow card, though.

Mohamed Salah joins his mate Sadio Mane in the referee's notepad with a clumsy foul.

Change for Flamengo as the world's fourth* best footballer called Diego comes on. The former Porto and Werder Bremen man was a class act in his pomp...

* After Maradona, Costa and Forlan

Ten minutes to go. Who's going to be a hero? If the answer is no-one then we will have 30 minutes of extra-time...

Trent Alexander-Arnold has a pop but his low shot is saved by Diego Alves.

More shifts of momentum than a sand timer. Liverpool in the ascendancy at the moment. Virgil van Dijk climbs to meet a Reds corner... over the bar.

The ball is in the net! But the flag is raised. Mohamed Salah finishes crisply but the lino is already wafting.

Stephen Warnock
Ex-Liverpool defender on BBC One

It doesn't look like his knee, which we were worried about straight away.

It appears to be the ankle, he may have stretched the ligaments on the outside which is painful.

He has to be careful. Yes you want to carry on playing but you have to do what's right for your body longer-term.

Image source, Getty Images

The stretcher is brought on for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, thankfully he doesn't need it as he hobbles off. Let's hope it is not as bad as we first feared. Adam Lallana comes on his place.

The first concern is whether it is Oxlade-Chamberlain's knee again. His reaction makes it look like it could be, although the replays seem to indicate it is an ankle problem.

Oh no. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - a man who has a fair share of serious injuries and missed most of last season - lands awkwardly on the turf after jumping for a high ball. The Reds midfielder slaps the ground in frustration, this does not look good...