Gerrard raises roof at Anfield

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Skipper Gerrard had made it pretty clear before the game that playing in Europe’s elite competition was all he was interested in with his whole future on Merseyside clearly in doubt.

Lose and Gerrard would have been looking for the exit door, so the theory went. And at half-time with a Rivaldo free-kick having put Olympiakos ahead, it looked all over for Rafael Benitez’s men.