Rafael Benitez masterminded another magnificent European away triumph as Liverpool confounded the odds with a stunning 1-0 victory over Real Madrid in the Bernabeu.
Whatever the Liverpool manager's future is after months of rumours, he did his cause no harm at all thanks to Yossi Benayoun's headed winner.
Benitez has coached Liverpool to remarkable performances away to Juventus, Barcelona, Arsenal, Inter Milan and Chelsea in recent seasons in the Champions League, but this was by far the most impressive.
Real have been rampant of late and unbeaten this year, but Liverpool dug deep and Benayoun headed the late winner to give his side every chance of progressing to the quarter-finals.
Despite days of intensive treatment, Steven Gerrard did not make the starting XI, the midfielder initially left on the bench.
It meant Jamie Carragher captained the side with Benayoun on the right of midfield and Dirk Kuyt pushed forward in support of Fernando Torres.
Gerrard's absence was a bad blow but confirmed how Benitez would play the first leg. Contained defence, a combative and mobile midfield and hard running were the order of the day.
In the opening exchanges there was a calmness about Liverpool in this intimidating arena, five tiers of fervent passion pouring down in support of Real.
They defended with discipline and long before the break Real were trying their luck from distance.
The Spanish champions, who had scored 10 goals in their last two games, still had their moments.
Arjen Robben's pass gave Raul the chance of a shot on the turn held by Jose Reina, while Brazilian Marcelo also tested the goalkeeper.
And it took a fine saving tackle by Carragher on Gonzalo Higuain to snuff out another dangerous moment.
But the longer the game went on, the more Liverpool seemed in control defensively.
It also saw them coming out on the break and Torres should have done better after 20 minutes as he was allowed to run onto a Reina long clearance, but Iker Casillas palmed away a shot across the face of the goal.
Casillas then got a firm block on Benayoun close-range shot as Liverpool sought to snatch something from a period of growing confidence.
Higuain thought he had scored with a close-range header, only to be rightly penalised for offside, before Marcelo and Robben, twice, tried their luck unsuccessfully from outside the box.
Real had most of the possession but it was Spanish international Xabi Alonso who almost broke the deadlock with an audacious shot from inside his own half.
The midfielder is famous for such effrontery, once scoring a similar goal at Luton, but this time Casillas had to scramble back to touch the effort over the bar.
Madrid sent on Guti for Marcelo at the break, with Fabio Cannavaro booked for a foul on Dirk Kuyt soon after the restart.
Liverpool had not allowed Real to indulge themselves with the expansive game that has swept so many aside of late. Javier Mascherano's snap and drive in midfield was the yardstick for others to follow.
Torres, kept under close control by Cannavaro, was booked for a swipe at Lassana Diarra's ankles, the game now stretched as both sides searched for the vital breakthrough.
Benitez, never one to be bothered about reputations, then replaced a disappointing Torres with Ryan Babel after 62 minutes, to predictable derision from the home fans at the former Atletico Madrid man.
Mascherano was next into the book for a foul on Fernando Gago, Reina yet to have a serious shot to save in the half.
That was to come after 70 minutes when Reina touched over a dipping drive from Robben, Madrid starting to show more urgency as the minutes ticked away.
However, Liverpool were still comfortable and things got even better with eight minutes left.
Gabriel Heinze's foul on Kuyt gave Fabio Aurelio the opportunity to curl in a free-kick that Benayoun headed past Casillas from six yards.
Benayoun was engulfed by his jubilant team-mates and way up above them, 3,000 Liverpool fans erupted.
Albert Riera was booked, and then taken off injured, allowing Gerrard into the fray with three minutes left and Lucas replaced Kuyt in the final seconds, the game now won.
Real Madrid are in perfect shape to deal a blow to compatriot Rafael Benitez's Liverpool side in the Champions League on Wednesday, coach Juande Ramos said.
Ramos was halfway through his disappointing spell at Tottenham Hotspur the last time he took on the Liverpool boss on the final day of the 2007-08 Premier League season when Spurs lost 2-0 at White Hart Lane.
Now, Benitez brings his side to the Bernabeu for the last-16, first leg to face a Real side on a run of nine Primera Liga wins in a row while Liverpool's domestic title challenge faded further on Sunday with another disappointing draw.
Ramos noted in an interview with Monday's Marca newspaper that the two clubs' fortunes have been reversed since December's draw for the knockout phase.
"Back then Liverpool were leading the standings and playing at an extremely high level but now they have lost the top spot and their form has dropped off a little," Ramos said.
"With Real Madrid it's the opposite. We have retrenched and are in perfect shape for this knockout tie."
Real have scored 22 goals in those nine victories, including Saturday's 6-1 hammering of Real Betis, and conceded just two and Ramos said the players are raring to go.
"The team is massively fired up and the players are chomping at the bit for the match to come around," he told Marca.
"We have been working for a little more than two months to get the team in shape.
"The players have improved a great deal and their physical and mental state is perfect."
Liverpool's 1-1 result against Manchester City on Sunday, their sixth draw at Anfield in the league this season, left them seven points adrift of leaders Manchester United.
They were given a lift on Monday when Benitez named captain Steven Gerrard in his squad for Wednesday's match after he missed almost three weeks with a hamstring injury.
Benitez said Gerrard had not trained at full capacity and the midfielder seems likely to face a late fitness test.
"He was okay in training this morning," the manager said on the club's website. "It was a special training session so we were not testing him one hundred percent, but he trained okay so we will see."
Ramos said he was sure Gerrard would play.
"Right from when the injury happened and they said he would be out for three weeks I interpreted it as a strategy to make us feel more confident," he told Marca. "But at no time did I think he wouldn't play."
Probable teams:
Real: 1-Iker Casillas; 4-Sergio Ramos, 3-Pepe, 5-Fabio Cannavaro, 16-Gabriel Heinze; 11-Arjen Robben, 8-Fernando Gago, 6-Lassana Diarra, 10-Wesley Sneijder; 7-Raul, 20-Gonzalo Higuain
Liverpool: 25-Pepe Reina; 17-Alvaro Arbeloa, 23-Jamie Carragher, 37-Martin Skrtel, 2-Andrea Dossena; 20-Javier Mascherano, 14-Xabi Alonso, 11-Albert Riera; 8-Steven Gerrard, 18-Dirk Kuyt; 9-Fernando Torres
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Jewish founder
Microsoft was founded in 1975 by William Henry Gates III, who is a Crypto Jew. Gates was refused membership at Augusta Country Club, which was when they still had Gentlemen’s agreement not to have any Jews in their fancy club. Now he is one of the richest men in the whole world.
Luckily Bill Gates parents survived from death camps
Think what could have happened if parents of Bill Gates had died in Nazis concentration camps? What kind of loss that would have been to whole world! And think of their suffering at the camps, must have been really horrible experience, all that holohoax stories and so on...
Steve Ballmer another filthy Zio Garbage joined Microsoft in 1980
His family came straight from Krakow ghettos and they were also holocaust survivors.
Windows operating system was catastrophe
Microsoft’s operating system was the worst one in the markets, but luckily Zionist business connection made their operating system hit. Their code was so bad that they had to steal OS/2 code and buy code/engineers from other companies. UNIX systems had done everything better and safer, but oddly these were not favored by university Jewish management, so they decided to use Microsoft products rather than free UNIX systems.
No technical support for customers
Most of people are buying Microsoft OS as OEM, and OEMs has no support from Microsoft at all.
Windows becomes monopoly product
Key to Microsoft’s success is of course Zionist connections, but also their rude way to blackmail OEM sellers. If OEM seller doesn’t use Microsoft products on all their computers Microsoft threatened OEMs. All Microsoft’s file formats used to be closed source and corporations could get information only by buying that from Microsoft.
OMEs were threatened
To make matters worse for Netscape, Microsoft used their influence with full force to prevent OEMs (an OEM is a computer maker such as Gateway or Dell) from putting Netscape on any of the computers they shipped. Microsoft told OEMs that they could not uninstall Internet Explorer and install Netscape’s Navigator even when customers asked specifically for Netscape or they would lose their Windows licenses. For OEMs, losing their Windows licenses would essentially put them out of business, so they had no alternative but to submit to Microsoft’s demands.
Microsoft doesn’t support any industry standards and everything is closed source
It is commonly known that Microsoft’s applications are given an unnatural performance advantage on Windows because they take advantage of secret APIs which give them the extra speed they need. It’s rather disturbing that Microsoft can’t compete on a level playing field and feels the need to tip the field because they own it. What’s even more disturbing is that they are willing to sacrifice stability and good design principles by “integrating” applications with their OS just to make their applications run faster.
Every Windows system has Secret Backdoor for NSA and Mossad
The findings of a computer security expert that America’s National Security Agency (NSA) and Israeli Mossad may have been given a back door into every copy of Windows 95, 98, NT4 and 2000 worldwide are being debated across the Internet.
Trusted Computing to fight anti-Semitism in computers
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Microsoft is planning to sell operating systems that will have monthly fees instead of one-time payment. Now all corporative solutions are based on constant fees, and of course companies that don’t accept their offer will be threatened by their monopoly status.
All files will be stored to Microsoft servers for Mossad to search for anti-Semitic material in future versions of Windows
Microsoft is developing OS called Cloud OS and it means that all your files will be uploaded to Microsoft servers and you have to pay monthly fee and you also give total rights for Mossad to search your files. It surely will be easy to arrest hate criminals or other dissents when they have uploaded evidence to prosecutors hard drive!
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