BESIKTAS 1-0 LIVERPOOL (1-1 AET - BESIKTAS WIN 5-4 ON PENALTIES) - DOMINIC KING IN ISTANBUL

That wasn't in the script: penalties, the Ataturk Stadium and a momentous anniversary looming - surely the only outcome could have been a Liverpool win? Not this time. Here was a European first, Liverpool failing in a shootout, and that it happened at the scene of their greatest triumph thickened the plot. Going out of the Europa League at Besiktas was not how they aimed to mark 10 years since beating Milan.