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Mac Allister heads Liverpool to Champions League win over Real Madrid
Alexis Mac Allister's decisive header earned Liverpool their first Champions League clean sheet this season and halted Real Madrid's perfect start, securing nine points in the group stage.
- On Tuesday at Anfield, Liverpool beat Real Madrid 1-0, Alexis Mac Allister's header from Dominik Szoboszlai's set-piece deciding the match.
- After Saturday's win over Aston Villa, Liverpool arrived needing a sustained response following six defeats in seven matches, building on 13 wins from a 14-game unbeaten run.
- Trent Alexander-Arnold returned to Anfield as a late substitute, facing boos three times during warm-up and vocally after his 81st-minute entry, while his Sybil Road mural was vandalised earlier.
- The victory ended Real Madrid's 100 per cent Champions League start, delivered another clean sheet from a set-piece goal, and moved Liverpool into sixth place ahead of Sunday’s trip to Manchester City.
- A VAR review overturned a free-kick for Aurelien Tchouameni's handball, with UEFA stating 'VAR decision: no penalty,' despite Clattenburg's criticism, `What the VAR has done, in his opinion, because the referee has given a handball- and I think it's a handball by the way`.
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Mac Allister heads Liverpool to Champions League win over Real Madrid
Liverpool's Alexis Mac Allister headed a second-half winner as the hosts earned a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Real Madrid in a battle between European giants on Tuesday, handing the LaLiga leaders their first defeat in the Champions League this season.
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