Rio Ngumoha, 18, became the youngest Liverpool player to register a Champions League assist

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There will be many more Champions League nights for Rio Ngumoha, although the 18-year-old will always remember this career landmark when his teenage skill plunged the opposition into fearful indecision and decided the game.

This young man has not yet played 40 senior games but there is no doubting the quality. Alexis Mac Allister scored twice, Liverpool came from two goals behind, and it all ended with a panic that meant they came close to chucking it away again. But what everyone could agree on from this strange match of fluctuating fortunes was that Ngumoha looks like one of the best young players in Europe.…