Liverpool: Steven Gerrard scored in vain as Basel ended Liverpool's Champions League campaign with a 1-1 draw at Anfield on Tuesday that consigned his side to the Europa League.


Liverpool's English midfielder Steven Gerrard crouches on the pitch after the final whistle of the UEFA Champions League group B football match between Liverpool and Basel at Anfield in Liverpool. Pic/AFP 

Gerrard's exquisite late free-kick cancelled out Fabian Frei's 25th-minute opener, but with Liverpool reduced to 10 men by the dismissal of substitute Lazar Markovic, Paulo Sousa's Basel held on for a point that took them into the last 16 alongside Group B winners Real Madrid.