Ajax v Liverpool: Champions League – live updates

Liverpool get the ball rolling. No surprise that there’s a wild atmosphere in the Johan Cruyff ArenA. “I heard that a long time ago Peter Oh sent in ten different entries to The Guardian’s Pun of the Week competition, hoping one of them was good enough to win. Alas, no pun in ten did.” Justin Kavanagh, ladies and gentlemen. He’s here all week. Try the edibles.

The teams are out! Ajax wear their famous white shirt with thick red stripe – or red shirt with two thin white ones, depending on how you see it – while Liverpool sport that aforementioned green. This being the Netherlands, and Virgil van Dijk being Dutch, there were plenty of friendly embraces in the tunnel beforehand. Anyway, we’ll be off once Zadok the Priest’s younger brother continues to sully the family name with the cover version he recorded for Uefa’s marketing department.

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