Liverpool booked their spot in the final four of the Champions League and a clash with Villarreal after seeing the job through with a 3-3 draw with Benfica (6-4 agg)
Ibrahima Konate and a Roberto Firmino double did the damage for Jurgen Klopp's side as they repelled a brief threat of a Benfica comeback when Goncalo Ramos netted in the first half
Roman Yaremchuk and the impressive Darwin Nunez scored two consolation goals for the visitors to level the game on the night but overall this was a routine evening for Klopp's side, who decided to rest Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mane, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andrew Robertson and Mohamed Salah from the start in a rotated team from the 2-2 draw with Manchester City on Sunday
Liverpool had been victorious on aggregate in all 35 of the UEFA competition ties in which they won the away first leg and had few moments of worry at Anfield, holding a 3-1 lead from the first leg
Just like the first leg, it was a set-piece that opened the scoring for Klopp's side and once again it was Konate
 Kostas Tsimikas whipped the corner in from the left and the centre-back sprung between three Benfica defenders to head into the bottom corner
Liverpool's risk-reward offside trap that usually catches plenty of prey was breached on 32 minutes when James Milner's deflected block sent through Ramos, who finished confidently into the far corner
Any hope of an unlikely comeback at Anfield required Benfica to grab the next goal but Liverpool put their foot down in the second half
 Their second goal arrived in comical fashion when goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos blotted his copybook with an unforced error to allow the ball to slip out of his grasp and a rushed Jan Vertonghen clearance allowed Diogo Jota to cross for Firmino to tap in
The Brazilian was on hand to grab his second goal 10 minutes later from another excellent Tsimikas delivery that was missed by Nicholas Otamendi and finished in classy fashion by the Liverpool striker
Benfica managed to break through the Reds offside trap again on 73 minutes when Yaremchuk scampered through and rounded Alisson
 The offside flag originally chalked the goal off but VAR stepped in to award it as Joe Gomez was playing the Ukrainian striker onside
VAR was involved again on 81 minutes to overturn another wrongly-called offside decision which had ruled out Nunez's tidy finish from a Joao Mario pass
 Nunez, linked with a host of Premier League clubs, almost set up a grandstand finish but his powerful volley was brilliantly stopped by Alisson and his late finish was ruled out by the assistant referee - this time correctly
The quadruple dream remains alive for Liverpool
This performance will have left the Benfica hierarchy rubbing their hands together as their star man must have added millions to his asking price
 If this was an audition for the player to see if he could cut it against elite Premier League opposition then he passed it with flying colours
Newcastle, Arsenal and Manchester United have all been reportedly linked with a move
This is a player absolutely ready-made for the rigours of English football
 He can run, he can hold the ball and at Anfield he showed he can finish
 On another day he could have walked away with the match ball
 The records will say he only scored once but he had the ball in the net three times, showcasing deadly finishing ability
 It was unfortunate that he was slightly ahead of the play on both occasions which triggered the assistant referee's flag to be raised
"The day when we qualify for the semi-finals of the Champions League and I'm not happy, come here and knock me out - it would make no sense," Klopp told 
 "We made seven changes for good reason, and played a really good first half where I liked a lot of things
"But 3-1 up, the last line have never played together and it's about details
 It's difficult to keep 100 per cent concentrated, the opposition will celebrate that they got a draw, a result here, but we didn't have the perfect mindset in that moment
"Of course, it wasn't exactly what we wanted to do, but it's not important
 Playing the best game of the season tonight or our whole time together, wouldn't have made it any more likely to get into the final
 We played the game we played, we're through and that's all I wanted
 I'm happy
"I was never in doubt about our line-up
 We knew it would be hard, the backline have never played together and it was three centre-halves in there, you lose the voice without Virgil van Dijk, but the rotation in other positions was never a problem
"First legs to be played April 26/27; Second legs to be played May 3/4
Final to be played in Paris on May 28
Liverpool face title rivals Manchester City again on Saturday as they head to Wembley for the semi-final of the FA Cup; kick-off at 3
30pm
 Jurgen Klopp's side then play host to Manchester United at Anfield on Tuesday, live on from 7pm; kick-off at 8pm
 Liverpool trail City by a point with just seven games left to play in the Premier League and cannot afford any slip-ups in the run-in
Benfica return to action with a derby against Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese league on Sunday
 Nelson Verissimo's side trail second-placed Sporting by nine points with five games remaining, and need a win to keep their hopes of securing Champions League football next season alive
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