Liverpool walked away as Uefa Champions League winners the last time they played at the Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium – their task this time around is to see off Besiktas and qualify for the Uefa Europa League round of 16.
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Liverpool won the first leg at Anfield thanks to Mario Balotelli’s 85th-minute penalty.
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The sides also met in the 2007/08 Uefa Champions League group stage, with Ertugrul Saglam’s Besiktas beating the Reds 2-1 in Istanbul before crashing 8-0 to Rafael Benítez’s men at Anfield; it remains Besiktas’s heaviest European defeat, and indeed the heaviest loss suffered by any club in the Uefa Champions League (group stage to final).
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The teams for the Istanbul game on 24 October 2007 were:
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Besiktas: Hakan Arikan, Serdar Kurtulus (Koray Avci 42), Matías Delgado (Higuaín 62), Bobô (Diatta 86), Tello, Cissé, Ibrahim Üzülmez, Serdar Özkan, Ali Tandogan, Ibrahim Toraman.
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Liverpool: Reina, Finnan, Hyypiä (Crouch 83), Riise, Gerrard*, Voronin, Pennant (Benayoun 59), Kuyt, Babel, Mascherano (Lucas 76), Carragher.
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