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It was a night to remember at Anfield as Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-0 to put themselves on the brink of the Champions League semi-finals.

The national media were effusive in their praise for Jurgen Klopp's side, both on the field and in the stands of the famous stadium.

Here is what they made of a sensational evening on Merseyside.

In The Times, Henry Winter believes City supporters' taunts would come back to haunt them.

He writes: All over the pitch, Klopp’s players were eclipsing their City counterparts. James Milner was last seen on his new Twitter feed, checking the length of mini-eggs with a ruler, and he certainly had the measure of City. He harassed them in midfield, had an assist, and was outstanding. To think City let him go on a free.

A penny, too, for the thoughts of the watching Gareth Southgate. Milner is happily retired from the England scene but at 32 is still in great physical condition. Alongside him was Jordan Henderson, shielding Liverpool’s back four with such adroitness that the booking (for a foul on Sterling) that rules him out of next week’s second leg was greeted with sighs. Liverpool will hope Emre Can regains fitness.

This was Henderson’s sort of night, working overtime, pressing relentlessly, and supplying the ball to the artists. This was also the sort of night that showed why Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain left Arsenal, and he has rarely played better. His energy, pressing and rapid counterattacking, added to his goal threat, make him a formidable presence in Liverpool’s midfield.

What City also cannot debate is that there is an Anfield effect. The scenes outside the ground shamed Liverpool, who apologised, but the scenes inside, and especially the ear-splitting noise screamed of local desire. The Etihad, barring some occasions, is flat in comparison. Most stadiums are. Anfield is special, and it is the residents that make it so. The Kop’s pride in their team runs so deep and is voiced so fervently.

It inhibited visitors such as Gündogan but particularly inspired their own players. City ran into a swarm of red as well as a wall of noise. Some City fans sang about Liverpool “living in the past”, following an emotional build-up inside the stadium filled with songs and banners, but the astonishing first 31 minutes of football signalled that Liverpool’s fearless approach was very much the future.

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Miguel Delaney, Chief Football Writer of the Independent, believes City were simply 'rocked' inside a rocking Anfield.

He writes: The real key, though, was that Liverpool successfully set a pace that City couldn’t match even when Klopp’s team began to naturally subside. That is also where the real inquest will come about the game for Guardiola, and why exactly this happened.

One of many remarkable - well, really, astounding - aspects of this game was that City had actually started it the better team. Guardiola had obviously been extremely mindful of the ruinous effect of that rampaging pace. So mindful, in fact, that his entire gameplan seemed to be set up around it. That backfired badly. Liverpool were just too fearsome on the front foot.

In so evidently trying to take the sting out of any fast Liverpool start by slowing the pace of the match, City took all sting out of their own game, and were just completely unable to match it when Klopp’s men drastically upped that pace. The visitors couldn’t raise themselves. They were so flatfooted, as was seen in so many big moments.

Anfield was absolutely rocking, City were just absolutely rocked. Really, they were worse than rocked. They looked stunned, as if they couldn’t quite believe what was happening, and didn’t know how to get themselves out of this.

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Martin Samuel, of the Mail, heralds Liverpool as 'the real deal' after a dramatic night.

He writes: Maybe they're still running now, this Liverpool team. Maybe, as the sun rises over Anfield on Thursday morning, there will still be men in red shirts, chasing, harrying, closing down, sprinting away, as if their lives depended on it.

This was, as the scoreline suggests, an improvement. A complete, emphatic triumph of will and spirit, backed by ferocious noise that only Anfield on European nights conjures. This was a marker thrown down for this season, and the next, too – a result that says Liverpool are the real deal.

They have the beating of the best team in the land, so next year might be interesting, and if they can do this to City now, might they also be able to do it to Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid, this season too?

Liverpool might not be the champions of Spain, as Barcelona surely will be, or of Germany like Bayern Munich, or champions of Europe like Madrid; but they have heart and an appetite for European occasions that is close to unmatched in English football.

It was about both hearts and heads, according to the Telegraph's Jason Burt.

He writes: Whether even a three-goal lead is enough against this usually free-scoring City remains to be seen in next week’s return in Manchester, but what an occasion this was for Liverpool, for Klopp, and for this evocative stadium and passionate supporters it holds.

For Pep Guardiola it was a nightmare. He got it all wrong tactically and while the City team bus was damaged by some mindless home fans beforehand, prompting an apology from Liverpool and Uefa investigation, it was on the pitch that the wheels came off.

Liverpool played with their hearts but also their heads. There was a wall of noise from the stands and a defensive wall in the game superbly marshalled by Virgil van Dijk with Trent Alexander-Arnold outstanding at right-back as he dealt with Leroy Sane, the only City player who came close to playing well. Alexander-Arnold is still just 19, while fellow full-back Andrew Robertson also impressed. The pair cost just £8 million. In front of that defence was an all-English midfield three who redefined the cliché of running their socks off.

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And finally, in the Mirror, no round-up is complete without a word for Mohamed Salah, courtesy of Alex Richards.

He writes: When Liverpool signed Salah for £37million from Roma last summer, no-one could have possibly envisaged the Egyptian having such an impact.

Look back to announcements of the Reds' acquisition of the ex-Chelsea man, and 99 per cent will describe the 25-year-old as 'winger'.

In the nine months since arriving at Anfield, he has proved himself to be anything but.

Rather, as Salah has grown in a red shirt, making this HIS team, has has carved out his own niche, playing from the right side but spending an increasing amount of time in the penalty area and between centre-half and full-back. And, quite simply, he is thriving.

His 12th minute finish here from eight yards was his 38th goal of the season - only Cristiano Ronaldo (39) has more - while his clever stood up cross for Mane's header was a 13th assist.

He isn't a striker, he isn't a winger and shouldn't be pigeon-holed as either; Whatever he is mind, he's bloody good.