Liverpool .. The mistake is forbidden in front of the dark horse Villarreal
Liverpool enters its match at Anfield against its Spanish guest, Villarreal, in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Champions League today, realizing that the error is forbidden in front of the dark horse of the tournament, which seeks to overthrow another continental giant.
In its quest for a historic quartet this season, Liverpool collide with the Italian club, Juventus, and Bayern Munich, the German champion, from the eight-finals and quarter-finals, respectively.
German coach Jurgen Klopp's team is at the end of a fiery season, as it is only one point behind Manchester City in the fierce race for the title in the league, five stages before the end, and reached the FA Cup final, where it will face Chelsea after crowning the latter at the expense of the League Cup earlier in the week. season.
Having been eliminated from the quarter-finals and the final price in the other two years, Liverpool hopes to continue the journey and reach the final for the first time since 2019, when he won his sixth title at the expense of his compatriot Tottenham.
As for Villarreal, it matched its best result in the continental competition, having also reached the semi-finals in the 2005-2006 season before being knocked out by Arsenal.
Villarreal proved that winning the European League title "European League" last year at the expense of Manchester United was not a coincidence, led by the specialist in this competition Unai Emery, who won the title four times (three of them in succession with Seville between 2014 and 2016).
The Spanish team is still on the right track, in order to repeat the wonderful achievement of Porto, led by Jose Mourinho, who won the Champions League in 2004, a year after winning the FA Cup (currently the Europa League).
And the two teams had previously met only twice continentally, in the semi-finals of the European League in the 2015-2016 season when Liverpool, led by Klopp, compensated for its 0-1 back-to-back delay in Spain to win 3-0 back at Anfield, before losing the final against Seville and Emery in particular (1- 3) in Basel, Switzerland.
Klopp commented on the next match: "I don't take something like this for granted. It will be a very, very difficult match against Villarreal, but in the Champions League semi-final, if things are not difficult, something is wrong."
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