In this season's European war, Spain has become the biggest winner, and it can be called the golden age of La Liga. The Champions League final became a Madrid derby, between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. The Champions League has become Spain's bag.
Among the two teams in the Europa League finals, Sevilla is also a Spanish team, and Sevilla's winning rate before playing in the Europa League finals was 100%.
However, Liverpool has Willard, a free man with all-around offense and defense. There is still some suspense whether Sevilla can continue to maintain a record of winning the Europa League finals and turn the Europa League into a veritable Sevilla Cup.
Judging from the score of advancing to the semi-finals, everyone is more optimistic about Liverpool, which defeated Villarreal 6-0.
If nothing else, Willard's personal state alone is shocking. You know, Willard only joined Liverpool during the winter break, but he has already scored 12 goals in the Europa League, ranking first among the scorers. The second-placed player only scored 10 goals.
Sevilla's top scorer in the finals only scored 8 goals, and the Europa League golden boot is almost in Velarde's possession.
In addition, Velarde also contributed 5 assists, ranking tied for second in the assists list.
He only played a total of 8 Europa League games and scored 17 goals, averaging 2 goals per game.
Can Sevilla score more than two goals against Liverpool?
It's possible, but as long as Willard plays normally and with the help of other teammates, Liverpool has an absolute upper hand in winning.
If Sevilla really wins, then this year's Champions League and Europa League championships will be won by Spain. The Premier League, which is known as the number one in commercial development and has the largest number of neutral fans in the world, will definitely be disgraced.
In addition, it will also involve the issue of European war points.
Therefore, the entire England basically supports Liverpool.
But Liverpool themselves can't worry about the Europa League finals now. They have to play well in the last two rounds of the Premier League to see if they can wait until Leicester City makes a mistake and the Red Army has the chance to win the Premier League for the first time.
Unfortunately, in the 37th round of Leicester City's Premier League match, which took place on May 7, the Blue Fox defeated Everton 3-1 at home, opening a 4-point gap with Liverpool.
The pressure is on Liverpool. If Liverpool cannot win this round, Leicester City will win the Premier League championship one round ahead of schedule.
At 16:00 on May 8th, the 37th round of the Premier League match between Liverpool and Watford officially started at Anfield Stadium.
This game encountered another rainy day, but Anfield still had nearly 50,000 people seated, with an attendance rate of over 90%.
Except for those season ticket holders who were too old or sick, everyone else who could come basically came to the scene to watch the game in the rain and cheer for their home team.
Watford is currently ranked 13th in the league, more than ten points above the relegation zone, and has no worries about relegation. Of course, with only two rounds left in the league, there is no chance of competing for European qualification. Therefore, Watford does not have much motivation in this game.
The same is true for the opponents in the last round of the league. As long as Liverpool performs normally, it will basically be no problem to win two games. It just depends on whether Leicester City will make mistakes.
After the game started, Watford immediately tightened its defense and prepared to defend. If they could force Liverpool to draw, they would do their best.
But this is obviously impossible. Without a goal to lead, Liverpool will not lack motivation for the game.
Although Watford's defense shrunk and it was difficult to attack Watford's penalty area from the ground, the weather in this game was not good and Liverpool itself was not prepared to use ground techniques to attack.
Whether it is Willard's long-range shot or Sturridge, Coutinho and others' competition for the top in the penalty area, they are all effective tricks to break the dense defense.
Of course, Sturridge, Coutinho and others can only play a containment role in the penalty area most of the time. After all, there are too many people on the opponent's defensive side, and it is difficult for Sturridge to successfully compete for the top.
Only when Villard enters can he use his superior physique, reaction, grabbing ability, jumping, heading skills, etc. to pose a threat to the opponent's goal.
Of course, Willard is a free man and can be found everywhere.
In the 13th minute, Willard rushed into the penalty area to participate in the header challenge, and succeeded in the header challenge, heading the ball passed by Joe Allen from the left toward the goal. Unfortunately, when he headed the ball, he was pulled and pushed in the air by two opposing players. As a result, he failed to top the ball in a good position. In the end, the ball went slightly higher than the crossbar.
Watford's goal held on for half an hour, but was eventually breached by Liverpool.
In the 32nd minute, Velarde received the ball outside the penalty area and dodged the defensive player, then took a long shot and hit the ground. Unfortunately, the angle was not tricky enough and was saved by goalkeeper Gomez.
But the ball saved by Gomez did not go out of the baseline. Instead, he threw it into the small penalty area, where it happened to be grabbed by Firmino who was staying in the small penalty area. Firmino got ahead of the Watford defender who was trying to clear the ball and successfully kicked the ball back into the goal.
Firmino's successful follow-up shot helped Liverpool open the scoring and lead Watford 1-0. The fans in the stands breathed a sigh of relief and applauded enthusiastically.
When Watford has no desires and little desire to compete, as long as Liverpool scores the first goal, the rest of the game will be easy to play, and there is a high probability that they can win.
This is also true. After the game restarted, Watford used the kick-off right to try an attack, but lost the ball before it could reach the edge of Liverpool's penalty area.
Then Watford immediately retreated and started to defend again. It didn't have much desire to attack because it lost the ball, trying to equalize the score or something.
With no hope of European competition and no worries about relegation, Watford really has nothing to ask for. They just want to complete the game and complete the task.
And Liverpool, who have already taken the goal lead, are not in a hurry. They still have a league game and a Europa League final. Especially in the Europa League final, there is no room for error, so you have to save some energy if you can. Since the opponents are not fighting hard, Liverpool does not need to waste energy to fight hard. It would be good to expand the score, but a 1-0 victory is also acceptable.
The first half was played without any desire from either side, and the situation in the second half was similar. It's not that Watford doesn't counterattack at all. When they get the ball, they naturally have to counterattack, but most of the time they fail to form a shot and lose the ball.
Even if there was an occasional shot, it did not pose any substantial threat to Liverpool's goal. Throughout the game, Watford only had three shots, and only one hit the door frame, which shows how low their desire to attack is.
As for Liverpool, in the 67th minute of the second half, left-wing back Joe Allen suddenly rushed into the penalty area, received Coutinho's pass and volleyed the ball into the goal, helping Liverpool to score. It expanded to 2-0 and sealed the victory.
