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Kloop’s team went from 2-5 against Madrid to a 7-0 record against their historic rival in 12 days.
return the Champions League this week with a Tuesday of low glamor in which the Chelsea will try to come back in London on 1-0 Dortmund to keep his ambitious project afloat. Wednesday will see the long-awaited appointment between the Bayern and PSGwho flirts with another again european failure on a date without Neymarinjured for the rest of the season. Next week the other great round of 16 duel will take place, that Madrid-Liverpool in which only a feat from the reds can avoid qualifying for the champion’s quarterfinals.
That feat in the Bernabeu looks like something almost impossible, but after what was seen this Sunday the pyrrhic percentage of possibilities has increased slightly. the men of Jurgen Klopp passed in 12 days of the 2-5 suffered in his stadium against the whites to a 7-0 ever seen in history of the English championship against the Manchester Unitedthe same team that knocked down the Barça in the round of 16 of the Europa League and that will host Betis on Thursday in the first leg of the round of 16.
“Crushed and Humiliated”
A page of these characteristics had never been written in English football. You have to go back two centuries to find the most similar precedent, which occurred in 1895, when Manchester (then it was called Newton Heath) fell 7-1 in a Second Division clash in Anfield, who only had three years to live. In 1916 the score was repeated with both clubs in the First Division. The United did not fit a rout so bulky since 1931 against Wolves and had not conceded seven league goals for 63 years, at Newcastle.
With these data it is not surprising that the hecatombe was collected this Monday with typographic richness in the English press. “Seven and the hell. United was crushed and completely humiliated”, exposed The Sun. “Liverpool was in the Seventh sky. Manchester United was in hell. Absolute, all-consuming hell for the Red Devils. There are some losses that are so traumatic that they corrode the structure of a team; of a club; of an institution”, stated The Daily Telegraph. “Ten Hag and his players were reunited with their worst nightmares. This was even worse than the horrors of the previous campaign, mainly because United had lost just once in 22 games.
“Lack of respect”
The win left United off the hook fight for the Premier and encouraged a Liverpool that already has the fourth place in the Tottenham and even dreams of a miracle at the Bernabéu. Klopp’s team took out their pride and rebelled for the “disrespect” received, according to the Daily Mail. “Rabia of being called too old, anger at the criticism against the players who have won the Champions League and the Premier League in recent years and who are not yet ready to go to the killing field. Now they have to ratify that historic rout with a season finale that at least places them back in the top European competition.
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He Betismeanwhile, he is afraid of paying the piper for the disaster this thursday in Old Trafford. After playing against the Real Sociedad and Barça, United will face the third Spanish team in the Europa League. “We suffered a great recoil and it is unacceptable. We take what happened at Anfield very seriously,” he said. in The Hague.
Beyond was the captain of the team, the Portuguese Bruno Fernandes. “We feel a lot of anger. The 7-0 does not define this team. The road is still long and we must take a immediate response this Thursday. There is nothing to say, now we have to react and move on”, concluded the Portuguese.