Full-back to the future: Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson key to Liverpool's success

Reminiscing about Liverpool’s greatest European heroes takes you on a journey of some of football’s most iconic names: Keegan, Smith, Dalglish, Gerrard, Grobbelaar, Souness, Rush. But look more closely and the men who actually wrote the story on a European stage were full-backs – and 2019 has every chance of throwing up the same narrative.

As Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson make for Madrid, revelling in almost universal praise for their contribution to Liverpool’s season, the full-back pairing have plenty of role models to study when it comes to winning European Cups.