Liverpool are still the best team in Europe despite being dumped out of the Champions League at the hands of Atletico Madrid .
That is the view of former Reds striker Michael Owen, who claims every other team still involved in the competition will be relieved at seeing Jurgen Klopp ’s team eliminated.
Liverpool lost 3-2 to the Spaniards after extra time at Anfield to go out 4-2 on aggregate in the last 16 tie. It had looked like being another special evening on Merseyside after the European champions turned around the first leg deficit to lead 2-1 on aggregate early in extra time.
But they then conceded three times to allow Diego Simeone’s side back in and eventually into the quarter-final. Klopp's men dominated the second leg while
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