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Farewell: Liverpool out of Champions league


Liverpool finally seals their doom in the Champions league with a failure to qualify for the last 16. 

The Reds added another defeat to their bad-lucked five games lost in Group B this season after Tuesday's 1-1 draw with FC Basel. Rodgers' side played with less spark, a match attitude unbefitting a team who won only one in six games and that by a late penalty score by Steven Gerrard. 

Fabian Frei's brilliant 25th minute score wore a chicken skirt for already disappointed boss Brendan Rodgers. Steven Gerrard's massive save at Olympiakos in December 2004 almost repeated itself with the striker's late free-kick netting.

The sunk Reds missed the super-saving scoring prowess of now-Barca Luis Suarez, and were down without Mario Balotelli and Daniel Sturridge, for injury. 

Reds join a group of bottom-scrapers to compete in the Europa league. Rodger's disappointed side finish third in the group B with five points.






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