From Paris down to Turkey, Liverpool have criss-crossed the continent and conquered everyone.
In there have been some brilliant individual performances by some special Reds.
This piece aims to collate the best of Liverpool players in this competition since its inception as the European Cup in 1955.
Steven Gerrard vs AC Milan (2005)
In Istanbul we won it five times, and that cup was brought home on the shoulders of Steven Gerrard.
Gerrard lifted the team a lot throughout the run to the final, no less than in Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Olympiacos in the final game of Liverpool’s group stage.
The local hero played loads of different positions in that Champions League final, quite often simultaneously.
What sets Gerrard apart from Lampard and Scholes is the ability to dig in for lesser quality players around him, something the other two seldom had to do in better teams at that time.
Gerrard helped to gee up his teammates at half-time, and scored the famous glancing header before the “Hello, hello here we go…”, and the comeback from 3-0 down that succeeded it.
He too won the penalty that Xabi Alonso scored to make it 3-3.
Not too bad for a lad who was allegedly on his way to Chelsea at the time…
David Fairclough vs Saint-Etienne (1977)
The original super sub David Fairclough came off the bench to save Liverpool in one of Anfield’s first great European nights.
The pedigree of Saint-Etienne at the time has since been lost to the sands of time, as is the art of a true super sub.
Back in ’77, there was only one substitute. Bob Paisley entrusted Fairclough with the chance, the only chance, to change the game.
In this era Liverpool were a team on the up, and Paisley’s choice was a mark of huge respect for Fairclough, a player who was always better than his super sub tag.
Les Verts had squandered good chances in the previous year’s European Cup final at Hampden Park, losing narrowly to Bayern Munich.
Liverpool had lost the first leg of this year’s semi-final 1-0 in France. Kevin Keegan got Liverpool level early in front of a vociferous Anfield crowd. Dominique Bathenay scored for the visitors, before Ray Kennedy put the Reds level.
Skip forward to the 84th minute, and Kennedy clipped the ball astutely behind the Saint-Etienne backline. The ball drops onto the clumped Anfield turf, tracked down immediately by a long figure wearing the number 12.
Fairclough chested the ball down in-stride, took it all the way down with his foot, and rolled the ball home into the annals of Liverpool history.
He ran away, arms aloft to the Kop, just like Emlyn Hughes did when lifting the European Cup in Rome later that season. Liverpool’s first.
Georginio Wijnaldum vs FC Barcelona (2019)
Another off-the-bench performance for the ages, Georginio Wijnaldum gave Liverpool a night they will never forget, as the Reds came from 3-0 down from the first leg to win 4-3 on aggregate in the second.
There are many differences between Liverpool in 1977 and Liverpool in 2019. One of the main ones being the weight of history that had proved difficult for so many Liverpool teams by the time Jurgen Klopp came around.
On that Tuesday night, Liverpool were without Sadio Mane and Mo Salah, with Anfield, but against Lionel Messi.
Anfield won.
The Reds got off to a good start as Divock Origi, who could quite easily be on this list, notched early.
At half-time the understated Wijnaldum enters the fray for the injured Andy Robertson, post his battle with Luis Suarez.
Wijnaldum did what he always did, and for once did not go under the radar. He drills in Liverpool’s second off a world-class pass by Trent Alexander-Arnold.
He grabs the ball, and there are murmurs of Gerrard in 2005. This was the first time since then we had felt that excited in our signature competition.
Xherdan Shaqiri crosses from the left from and Wijnaldum leaps and heads in. Arguably the biggest Liverpool crowd let-off in a long time. History echoed.
Divock Origi completes it, and without him, Wijnaldum would not have this segment. This is Gini’s though for running Barcelona all over the pitch.
Roger Hunt vs Internazionale (1965)
‘Sir Roger’ had one of many famous outings in a Liverpool shirt in the first leg of a European Cup semi-final in 1965.
In the third minute, a low ball fizzed in by Liverpool’s all-time top appearance maker Ian Callaghan, found Roger Hunt on the half-volley. He twisted and unleashed an unsavable lifted shot above Giuliano Sarti.
After Inter equalised, Hunt turned the provider and lifted a perfectly weighted ball in behind the defence first-time, as Ian Callaghan finished with a low shot.
Ian St. John scored for Liverpool late-on. The Reds went on to lose 3-0 to Inter in the second leg in controversial circumstances.
This European Cup run was one of the best of the Shankly era, and the Scotsman always rued this one as the one trophy he never won.
Hunt too never won the European Cup, he remains one of Liverpool’s greats and is second in the Reds’ all-time top goal scorers list.