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Wednesday, May 1, Liverpool moves to Barcelona for the first semi-final of the Champions League. And the Reds will once again be on the stars of African football: Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah. The Senegalese and Egyptian, finalists last year, will try to continue to spark in C1.
" It has been a fantastic experience. As I said, playing in a Champions League final was a dream for me. Unfortunately, we met a great team of Real Madrid, "said Sadio Mané on the UEFA website about last year's final. Today, the Senegalese international is two lengths to relive the same dreams. And to pull it off, we will have to beat Barça Lionel Messi, currently top scorer in the C1 with 10 goals on his meter.
Two men fit
Last Friday, the Reds crashed Huddersfield thanks to the doubles signed Mané and Salah (5-0). Liverpool, who opened the scoring by Guinean international Naby Keita after just 16 seconds, then wandered while looking for his difference in goals against Manchester City with doubles from Sadio Mané (23rd). , 66th) and Mohamed Salah (45 + 1, 83rd). Mané scored his 19th and 20th goals of the season in the Premier League. The other big scorer of the club, Salah, is 21!
In the quarter-final return of C1 against Porto, Liverpool had largely won in Portugal. The men of Jürgen Klopp easily won, well launched by a goal against the course of the game of Sadio Mané, on a service of Mohamed Salah (26th), before the Egyptian does not weigh the score in the 65th minute. Roberto Firmino, the last branch of the infernal trio of attack Red, had come to kill the end of the game the fleeting revolt of Porto (3-1, 77th), definitely defeated by Virgil van Dijk (4-1, 84th). Last season, Sadio Mané had already scored three goals in a resounding victory for Liverpool (5-0) against the Dragons in the round of 16 first leg.
Sadio Mané in the Premier League Team of the Year
This season, Sadio Mané has been rewarded with a spot on the Premier League team of the year. At 27, the former FC Metz player has taken a new dimension on the planet football. With 10 goals in the final phase of the Champions League (from the 8th finals) during his career, the Lion of the Teranga integrates a very closed circle: the one composed of Samuel Eto'o and Didier Drogba, the only two others African players to have reached before him this symbolic bar at this stage of the competition.
Mohamed Salah, the best African player in the last two years, and best player in the Premier League last season, made his mark on the 33rd day of the league. By registering his 50th goal under the colors of the Reds in the Premier League since his arrival in the summer of 2017, he becomes the club player who has taken the least time to achieve this number of achievements. Fernando Torres made it in 72 games, Luis Suárez in 86 and Robbie Fowler in 88. Salah did it after just 69 games.
This season, Mané and Salah took part in 10 Champions League games by scoring four goals each. Faced with the band Messi, the duo, not to mention Firmino, will still have to spark to propel the Reds to a second consecutive final.