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Teenage supporters like me had not grown up with European football as a consequence and knew very little about it until our eyes were dazzled by the 1990 World Cup in Italy.

What it also meant was that a whole generation of supporters had not experienced one of the true pleasures of following Liverpool Football Club - the shear excitement of a big European night at Anfield.

There had been one notable exception, of sorts, previously following the lifting of the ban in 1991 when the Reds overturned a 2-0 first leg deficit against French side Auxerre by winning the return leg 3-0 under Graeme Souness, thanks to a late winning goal from Mark Walters.

But while this cult match will remain an Anfield classic for some, it was in the UEFA Cup second round in a straight knock-out format and only 23,094 people were there to witness it.

So no, without question, Liverpool's biggest European match since 1985 at Anfield was the Cup Winner's Cup semi-final second leg against Paris Saint-Germain.

But VAR was just a figment of the imagination in 1997.

Instead, it set up a mission impossible task for Evans and his side, but with the memory of Auxerre still in people's minds, anything seemed possible as Anfield got set for it's biggest European night in years.

That was the case here with a defiant atmosphere and the odd sneaked in flare providing an experience that felt more like those stadiums I had seen at Italia '90 rather than what I had witnessed at Anfield previously.

Liverpool needed to produce the biggest comeback in their European history if they were to progress to the final and they got off to the perfect start when Fowler profited from strong hold-up play by Collymore to arrow home the opener in the 12th minute with a typically instinctive finish.

Anfield exploded!

With time ebbing away, Anfield got it's grandstand finish 11 minutes from the end when centre-back Mark Wright climbed highest to steer home a bullet header from a Stig Inge Bjornebye corner.

Cue utter bedlam in the Kop.

Anfield had already recognised the efforts of their team before Fowler's golden chance had even arrived, singing You'll Never Walk Alone in tribute to their heroes, but there was to be no happy ending this time.

The game, however, did pave the way for a new wave of supporters to grasp the excitement of European football and embed themselves in a new era of success on the continent in due course, finally arriving in success under Gerard Houllier in 2001 with even greater achievements waiting around the corner.

Having finished top of the Champions League league phase and currently sitting 13 points clear at the top of the Premier League, Arne Slot's Liverpool will head into Wednesday night's clash in Paris as the slight favourites, but even if they don't get the result that they want at the Parc des Princes, there will always be the memory of 1997 to ignite another famous Anfield comeback.