Liverpool look exposed without Fabinho amid fears history will repeat itself
Perhaps a tale can be told in three Champions League finals. Two days after the first, in 2018, Liverpool announced they were signing Fabinho. His debut year at Anfield concluded in victory in the second, in 2019. Now the risk is he will miss their third in swift succession. He is the player Pep Lijnders has called Liverpool’s “lighthouse” but a hamstring injury cast a dark pall over a night when they drew level on points with Manchester City.


