Liverpool exit after stirring comeback

Basel 3

Goals from Vladimir Smicer, Danny Murphy and Michael Owen somehow saw Liverpool claw their way level in a dramatic second period, but they could not force the victory that would have sent them into the last 16.

If the task was not difficult enough to win here, Basel made it almost as high as one of their country’s mountains. Yakin got away on the left, Jamie Carragher did not get anywhere near him and when the cross was drilled into the box, there was no-one within yards of Rossi either as he gleefully cracked the ball past Jerzy Dudek.