Liverpool knock down Villarreal (2-0)

Villarreal’s resistance to Anfield’s hell lasted just over 50 minutes. This is the time that the yellow team managed to keep the goal at zero against an indomitable Liverpool at their stadium, a temple of football. Not even the most massive displacement in the history of the Valencian team’s fans, with 3,000 fans who dyed a redoubt of the stands yellow, was not enough to curb the hunger of Jürgen Klopp’s players. The victory (2-0) leaves Liverpool with a foot and a half in the Champions League final, while Villarreal is headed to the epic for the return, next Tuesday, to the stadium of Ceramics.

The English team set a very high pace from the first minute, but the board of Unai Emery, played disciplined by his pupils, knew how to stop the initial siege. The yellow defensive order, clinging to a new survival exercise after Bayern Munich was loaded, was the only stronghold of a Villarreal absolutely subdued by Liverpool’s offensive dynamite, only intimidated by any attempt at a counterattack by Liverpool. Castellón complex. The clearest occasion of the first half was a distant cocoa in the cross of one of the fittest players of the reds, Thiago Alcántara. The former Barça player arrived at the break, a few minutes after a devilish shot from Sadio Mané from the front. His shot came in from the right hand side but Raúl Albiol managed to save it with an unbelievable reaction stop. It was the umpteenth warning from a far superior Liverpool. The story of the match was that of a dispute between a colossus that is playing in the Premier League with Manchester City and an unexpected guest in the semi-finals of the Champions League, such as Villarreal.

In the second half it was when the Valencian defensive network fell. The home team did not give in to their insistence and the well-deserved goal award came shortly before game time. Luckily for Jordan Henderson, Pervis Estupiñán was caught offside and Rulli was caught offside. Liverpool smelled of blood and continued with their offensive shell to look for the second. Said and done, because only two minutes later a play that started with a genius of Thiago on the left side would end up defining Mané, after the ball quickly changed sides. The Senegalese striker’s definition was the icing on the cake of an assist by Mohamed Salah with a cassock included. Luckily for Villarreal, with the 2-0, the local team slowed down their powerful machinery and the scoreboard would no longer move.

Content developed by

• Cover page

• Last hour

• Find out

• Sections

• 
  

  Profile