Trent Alexander-Arnold admits Liverpool will have to produce "something special" against Real Madrid to secure a place in the last eight of the Champions League.
But the Reds defender believes the 5-2 deficit heading into the game at Santiago Bernabeu means the team have nothing to lose when they meet the 14-time European Cup winners and current holders this week.
Goals from Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah had given Liverpool a commanding 2-0 lead inside 20 minutes of the first leg at Anfield but after a Vinicius Junior double had evened the tie up before the break, the Reds wilted after half time as Carlo Ancelotti's men scored three more times to give themselves a healthy margin ahead of the return game on Wednesday.
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Alexander-Arnold admits the situation looks perilous but the 24-year-old likened it to the Barcelona semi-final of four years ago when Jurgen Klopp's side turned around a 3-0 loss from the first leg to secure what is now regarded as a legendary Champions League comeback by winning 4-0 at Anfield.
"We're going to have to go and do something special in Spain, to be honest," Alexander-Arnold told the ECHO. "But, you know, it's one of them where it's similar to the Barcelona game where we kind of go over there with nothing to lose.
"They are the one with a three-goal lead and you know if we come out of there and we don't win then OK, we were three goals down, it is what it is. So we don't feel any pressure."
A last-16 exit at the hands of the team who have beaten them in two Champions League finals since 2018 will be tough to take for Klopp, whose side are now facing an uphill battle to qualify for the European Cup next season after Saturday's dismal defeat at Bournemouth, but Alexander-Arnold says the whole squad are still firm in their belief that they can achieve a remarkable result in Madrid.
He added: "We will go there to win the game, to try and get through. We're not just going to go there and think that it's already done and we're out. We still believe.
"We know it is going to be very difficult but we know we're capable of scoring goals in games and we're going to have to have a near perfect game to go through to the next round but we never say never."
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