Liverpool overtake Villarreal to keep a leg up in the Champions League final. Football News – Times of India

Liverpool: liverpool On the verge of a third Champions League final in five seasons after breaking up VillarrealResistance to win the first leg of their semi-final 2-0 at Anfield on Wednesday.
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As it happened: Liverpool vs Villarreal
The Reds remain on course for an unprecedented quadruple the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup.
And when the sides meet again in southern Spain in six days’ time, except for one major mess, Liverpool’s season will end in Paris on 28 May.
Villarreal’s population would fit inside Enfield but the 3,000 traveling support did their best to quickly make up for the noise of domestic support.
In contrast to the free-flowing thrill of Manchester City’s 4-3 win over Real Madrid in the second semi-final on Tuesday, Emery’s men followed the same strategy that saw them trailing Juventus and Bayern Munich with the back of the ball .

Although yellow Submarine can barely put on a glove jurgen kloppeThe men just had to put in their time to dominate, in the form of Liverpool.
The Reds have now scored 135 goals this season, but have had a disappointing first 45 minutes.
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Senegal also saw a deflected effort just wide and Villarreal goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli survived several speculative attempts with some sloppy handling.

Another long-range strike was the closest Liverpool came to break the deadlock before the break as Thiago Alcantara’s sweet strike cut through the post.
The six-time European champion started the second half at a brisk pace and quickly poked holes in Villarreal’s rearguard.
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Moments later, Anfield erupted as the error-prone Rully eventually cost the Spaniards with a feeble attempt to pass Henderson’s deflected cross.
The last thing the visitors could buy was the floodgates opening, but they were powerless to stop Liverpool’s waves of attacks.
Salah was the architect with a fully weighted pass for Mane to cross the Rulli at 55 minutes.
The offside flag came to Villarreal’s defense once again to quell Andy Robertson’s strike.
Emery was declared the “King of Cups” by Klopp for his impressive Europa League record, one of his four victories in that competition during his first season at Liverpool in 2016 as Sevilla boss against the Germans. had come.
However, Liverpool have been a different animal for six years and a side sitting seventh in La Liga were shown the boundaries as they struggled to mount any sort of reaction to go back.
Luis Diaz banged in the face of the goal as Liverpool threatened to hit the tie by a third.
The English giants had to settle for a two-goal advantage, but they are yet to lose 55 matches this season by a two-goal margin.