That’s all from me. Bye!

Here’s Andy Hunter’s match report from San Siro:

In a group of European heavyweights only Liverpool ultimately lived up to the billing. Jürgen Klopp’s makeshift team made light work of Milan, just as more recognisable units had done to Atlético Madrid and Porto, as Liverpool became the first English club to win all six games in a Champions League group stage.

Mohamed Salah added to his extensive collection of milestones as Liverpool came from behind to beat the Italian giants with something to spare. So much to spare, in fact, that Klopp gave the 18-year-old academy graduates Conor Bradley and Max Woltman late cameos to cherish at San Siro. Divock Origi, the “legend” as his manager likes to describe him, secured the clean sweep with a second-half header.

Milan were left with plenty to regret. They began the night in second place in Group B and finished bottom of the table and out of European competition completely following a flat and incredibly tame display.

Much more here:

Milan were poor tonight, with little quality or intensity in attack and almost no interplay between their forward players. Konate and Phillips were pretty comfortable, at least until the last five minutes, and both had good games. Oxlade-Chamberlain was outstanding for Liverpool, but apart from a couple of players - Tsimikas, maybe Minamino - it was all good for the visitors.

Jurgen Klopp is completely chuffed:

I think when I said before the game that we wanted to win the game everyone was yeah, of course. But we needed fresh legs, we needed desire to play this game, which is difficult with the epic schedule we have. And what the boys did tonight, I couldn’t be more proud. I’m so happy with so many things I saw tonight. That we won the game is great but the performance was outstanding. Having 21 shots, so many situations where we played outstandingly well, and defended with passion and good organisation. So really happy.

On that Nat Phillips turn:

He played an outstanding game, come on. It was ridiculous. The same for Sadio and Mo, the game they played tonight was outstanding, the quality they have. Mo scored the first, Sadio set up the second. This mix of fresh legs and then quality as well, was a really good mix tonight.

The Guardian, 26 August:

Liverpool landed in a group loaded with European pedigree. Jürgen Klopp’s team will face Atlético Madrid, who knocked the then holders out of the competition over two legs in 2020. Atlético’s Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, however, was the venue for Liverpool’s sixth triumph in the competition in 2019. Former champions Porto and Milan, Liverpool’s final opponents in Istanbul in 2005 and two years later in Athens, comprise the remainder of a finely balanced Group B.

7 December:

While you wait for our report on this game to drop, here’s some reading on the earlier kick-offs:

90+5 mins: It’s all over! Liverpool are through with a 100% record, and Milan are out of Europe altogether!

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90+5 mins: Saelemaekers kicks the ball into Gomez’s thigh and appeals for a penalty. There is literally nothing that man won’t pester a referee over.

90+4 mins: It’s 3-1 in Porto, the home side converting a penalty. To think that absolutely nothing happened in the first half-hour of that match.

90+3 mins: Liverpool bring on 18-year-old forward Max Woltman and right-back Conor Bradley, also 18, for Minamino and Williams.

90+1 mins: Chance for Liverpool! Keita plays Oxlade-Chamberlain through, but as Theo Hernandez slides in and Mike Maignan comes out he hits over the bar.

90+1 mins: Rodrigo De Paul scores Atletico’s third, and there’s no stopping them now.

90+1 mins: There will be three minutes of stoppage time, or thereabouts.

89 mins: Angel Correa has added a second for Atletico Madrid at Porto, and Milan are about three minutes away from elimination from Europe.

88 mins: Another chance for Kessie, but Konate, who has had a fine game, gets a foot in to take the ball off his toes.

86 mins: That was the moment for Milan! I think it was Bakayoko who slipped the ball through the defence, but Kessie’s shot hit Alisson in the face.

85 mins: Chance for Kessie, clean through on goal, but Alisson saves!

84 mins: Ibrahimovic attempts a bicycle kick, but doesn’t time it and the ball plops tamely off the side of his foot.

83 mins: Milan bring Bakayoko on for Krunic.

82 mins: Keita touches Saelemaekers’ arm, and the midfielder flings himself to the ground and then demands the referee get his book out, which is a bit rum. He does win a free-kick, which Ibrahimovic sends into the wall.

80 mins: Fabinho has come on for Origi, and Liverpool are playing a Williams/Oxlade-Chamberlain/Minamino front three.

79 mins: The Nat Phillips fan club is having a good night. “Credit to Nat Phillips, his first start this season and he’s looked at home,” writes Chris Healy. “He’s too good to not even be on Liverpool’s bench most weeks. But, if he’s happy with that I’m glad we have him.”

77 mins: Theo Hernández gets into a good position on the left, but his cross under pressure goes straight to Alisson.

74 mins: There were about three minutes immediately after Liverpool’s second when Milan looked genuinely determined to fight their way back into the game, which is now strangely flat. Meanwhile in Porto it’s now nine men against 10 after the home side had Wendell and Marchesín sent off. “We’re watching Porto v Atletico in a Lisbon bar,” writes Paul Byatt. “It has Suarez and Pepe on opposing teams. The level of shithousery is astonishing. Even the locals are appalled.”

70 mins: Then Liverpool race down the other end and Origi heads wide when well placed and unmarked.

69 mins: Almost a chance for Krunic, but he loses control of the ball on the edge of the area just as he seems set to burst through on goal. Phillips takes control of it, and with Milan players closing him down from left and right he turns past both and plays the ball out.

67 mins: Meanwhile in Porto, Carrasco has been sent off, Atleti are thus down to 10 men, and the fight for second place isn’t over yet.

64 mins: Liverpool take off both Mane and Salah, and bring on Naby Keita and Joe Gomez.

63 mins: Salah was just on the left wing and then on the right wing at two points in the same move. I’m not entirely sure how he did that.

61 mins: Messias tees up Krunic for a shot that clears the bar. Milan appear to have gone 4-2-4.

58 mins: Milan bring Ismael Bennacer on for Brahim Diaz, and Alexis Saelemaekers on for Tonali.

For the third time in the game, a rebound is turned in! Mane steals the ball from Tomori, bursts into the box, lashes a shot at Maignan and it loops up to Origi, who heads it into the far corner!

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53 mins: There’s been a goal in the other Group B game, and Antoine Griezmann has scored it! As it stands, Atletico Madrid are going through in second place.

53 mins: The ball breaks to Salah on the edge of the area, but his shot is too close to Maignan.

51 mins: From the free-kick Kessie is played through and goes over Tsimikas’s leg. Milan want a penalty, the referee won’t give it to them and the VAR isn’t about to change his mind. A slow-motion replay makes it look more of a dive than it initially appeared.

50 mins: Krunic and Origi go shoulder to shoulder. Origi’s arm does his Krunic’s jaw, but there’s no excuse for the face-clutching floor-rolling that follows. Milan win a free-kick.

48 mins: Minamino gets the ball outside Milan’s area, is allowed to look up, assess his options, go right, change his mind, turn left, and finally to shoot over the bar.

46 mins: Peeeeeeep! The second half is under way. “Speaking of coffee cups, someone should hand Ibrahimovic a big steaming one of the strongest stuff in the house because he has looked downright sleepy most of the first half,” notes Peter Oh.

The players are back out and ready to go again. I, meanwhile, am jealous of the person who got to write this update on the match they were (essentially) liveblogging this evening:

“Impressed by Liverpool’s intent, despite already being through to the next round,” writes Colum Fordham. “They’re giving Milan a proper match even with some second-string players. Loved Oxlaid-Chamberlain’s dribble and shot to creat the equaliser-but Mo Salah’s finish? Sublime or exquiste?” Um, both - but surely also a bit closer to the bar than he would have liked?