Alisson, the former most expensive goalkeeper ever, pulled off a last-gasp save worth $10 million

Alisson Becker made himself a Liverpool FC hero when he produced a last-gasp save to retain his team's 1-0 lead on Tuesday.Had Alisson fumbled the shot, then Napoli would have equalised in the crucial UEFA Champions League group stage match and taken Liverpool's place in the next round of the competition.The Champions League is a lucrative tournament and Liverpool's involvement in the next round, regardless of whether it wins or loses, is already worth an astonishing $10.8 million in UEFA revenue.Read all of Business Insider's coverage for the 2018-2019 European soccer season right here.Alisson Becker's save on Tuesday is already worth millions to Liverpool FC.The Liverpool goalkeeper was tested in the dying moments of a tense Champions League group stage match against Napoli, a game the English club was leading 1-0 at the time.The Napoli forward Arkadiusz Milik found himself in front of goal in the last moments and tested Alisson with a predator's shot from a near point-blank range, but the Brazilian shot-stopper got a limb in the way and somehow blocked the shot.Had Milik's strike gone in, Napoli would have equalised 1-1 and consequently taken Liverpool's place in the next round of the competition, thereby dumping the Reds into Europe's secondary ' and less lucrative ' tournament, the Europa League.Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk said that "the save was unbelievable," according to The Guardian.Watch it again right here:Making yourself big, Alisson style ' pic.twitter.com/8aTQhq4PR0' Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) December 12, 2018Or here if you are in a different region:When Liverpool needed a hero, up stepped @Alissonbecker 'via @brfootball pic.twitter.com/OS36UZT46y' FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) December 11, 2018But Alisson did what he was brought in to do at Liverpool ' frustrate the team's opponents, keep a clean sheet, and make a return on the 65 million ($82 million) investment the club made when it bought him in a then-world record transfer for a goalkeeper in July, 2018.Alisson is doing just that, as that one save alone means Liverpool will be $10 million better off this season. This is because the club will earn '9.5 million ($10.8 million) in prize money for participating in the first Champions League knockout round in February and March, next year.Had the team got dumped into the Europa League, it would have earned a paltry '500,000 ($570,000) by participating in the first knockout round, next year.So, regardless of whether Liverpool wins or loses its Champions League knockout round fixtures in 2019, it will be $10.2 million better off ' all because of Alisson's last-minute heroics.SEE ALSO:With 2 goals and 3 assists, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar ran rampant against Red Star and buried the wild rumours they do not get alongDON'T MISS:An 18-year-old soccer player's transfer value has risen over 800% in 3 months because he's playing like the 'new Neymar'UP NEXT:Lionel Messi is renting a $15 million customized 16-seat private jet ' take a look insideJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: The world's largest cruise ship just landed in Miami ' here's what it's like on board
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