"Lived it. Loved it. Farewell beautiful game." The caption was poetic, the accompanying picture — a greyed scene and Xabi Alonso taking one last wistful glance back over his shoulder at an ...

Xabi Alonso has backed his Bayer Leverkusen team to repeat Liverpool's famous "Miracle of Istanbul" as they look to recover a 3-0 deficit against Bayern Munich in the Champions League last 16.