3-0, this is a shocking score.
Before the game, everyone thought that this was a close and high-quality conversation. Many media and fans were looking forward to a back-and-forth between the MSN team and the Red Army at Anfield Stadium.
Unexpectedly, the ball possession rate in this game was one-sided, and the score was also one-sided. But Barcelona, which had the ball possession advantage, was three goals behind.
Barcelona's ball possession advantage has not been transformed into threatening offense, nor has it even been able to defend on the ball. It has failed to use the ball possession rate to properly control the ball at its feet and prevent its opponents from gaining offensive opportunities.
Three consecutive times the Reds intercepted the ball and launched a quick counterattack, resulting in the ball being conceded. Such a tactic is a failure.
However, even though they knew that this tactic was ineffective against the Red Army, Barcelona could not find any other way.
Let the MSN team make technical breakthroughs, but the three of them are in poor condition. Let Iniesta organize the attack, but he was also surrounded by Velarde and others, making it difficult to pass the threatening ball.
In the end, a reluctant counterattack not only failed to score a goal, but in the 84th minute Liverpool intercepted the ball and counterattacked.
This time, Velarde did not carry the ball for a long distance. Instead, he saw the opportunity and made a long pass directly from the backcourt. He penetrated Barcelona's defense and passed the ball from Iniesta, Rakitic and Mas. The ball passed through the gap between Celano, Mathieu and others and was sent to Barcelona's backcourt.
Mane rushed past full-back Mathieu like lightning. Mathieu turned around and tried to reach out to pull him, but failed. He could only watch in despair as Mane walked away and crossed the right corner of the penalty area. He caught up with Willard's through ball.
Facing the attacking goalkeeper Ter Stegen, Mane moved the ball toward the baseline, then jumped up to avoid Ter Stegen's dive, rushed to two or three meters away from the baseline, and caught up with the ball. A push shot from a small angle hit the ball into the empty goal.
"Goooooooooooooooooooooooal..."
"The ball goes in again!!!"
"With a through ball from Velarde, Mane caught up with the ball and formed an anti-offside single. He passed the ball past the goalkeeper and hit an empty goal."
"Liverpool is already 4-0 ahead of Barcelona."
"Barcelona's defense was beaten to a pulp."
"A completely unexpected result."
"However, it is not necessarily true that the suspense of two rounds will be ended like this."
"Because in the last round of 1/8 finals, Barcelona also lost 0-4 to Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg away from home."
"As a result, Barcelona returned to home in the second round and defeated Paris 6-1, completing a shocking reversal with a total score of 6-5."
"But from a probability perspective, it is really difficult to stage such a huge reversal in two consecutive rounds of the Champions League knockout rounds in the same season."
"Liverpool itself is an expert in reversals, and I am afraid that they will not let the tragedy of Paris happen to them again."
Indeed, with such a huge lead, even though Barcelona had achieved a huge 0-4 reversal in the previous round, Liverpool players and fans still had to celebrate very enthusiastically.
Liverpool are confident that a tragedy like Paris's will be avoided and that it will not happen to them.
In the end, the game ended with a score of 4-0. Liverpool unexpectedly defeated Barcelona 4-0 at home and won the first leg of the quarter-finals.
Although Barcelona experienced the same plot in the 1/8 finals against Paris Saint-Germain, few people really believed that Barcelona could continue to stage a super comeback from a four-goal deficit.
Such a plot is really difficult. It is a miracle to happen once in the history of a club, let alone to perform such a miracle in two consecutive rounds of the same competition in the same season.
From a probability perspective, it is almost zero.
Therefore, many media and fans have announced that Barcelona's elimination has become a foregone conclusion, and it is impossible for the Cosmos to perform a reversal miracle like in the 1/8 finals.
Even if Barcelona fans have just experienced an exciting reversal, they have no confidence in facing the same plot again.
Even if they are very tough when being interviewed by reporters, in fact everyone knows that the chance of such a huge reversal in a row is basically zero.
Even if Barcelona has that ability, Paris Saint-Germain may have been careless. The lessons learned from the past are not far away, and Liverpool will never be careless again.
So Barcelona will never have the chance to complete such a huge reversal.
Barcelona was very tough, saying that since they could reverse Paris and Liverpool, they would not admit defeat before the second round was over anyway.
Liverpool didn't take Barcelona's tough words to heart. With the lessons learned from Paris, they will not underestimate the enemy. As long as they perform normally, it will be impossible for Barcelona to complete the reversal.
A few days later, on April 16, in the 33rd round of the Premier League, Liverpool challenged West Bromwich Albion away. Liverpool has a huge lead in the league, and it doesn't matter if they give up one or two games. In order to avoid the tragedy of Paris, Klopp made a certain degree of rotation in this league, leaving the main force to Camp Nou to play in the Champions League. The second leg of the quarter-finals.
Although some of the main players were rotated, as long as Willard was on the court, Liverpool still had no problem. With Willard's two goals, Liverpool successfully won the game with a score of 2-0 in the away game, taking all three points. points and continue to lead the standings.
After this round of league play, Liverpool topped the list with 93 points. Second-place Chelsea lost to Manchester United in this round and had only 78 points, a full 15 points behind Liverpool.
With only 5 rounds left in a total of 38 league rounds, coupled with a huge goal difference advantage, Liverpool has actually won the championship ahead of schedule. However, in theory, there is still the possibility that Liverpool will lose all the last five rounds by a big score, Chelsea will win by a big score, and the points will be the same in the end, and Chelsea will take the lead with a goal difference.
Although everyone knows that the probability of this possibility is basically zero, it is still possible after all, so the championship trophy cannot be sent to Liverpool yet.
But Liverpool people can already celebrate in advance, even in the away game. After the game, Liverpool players and fans still celebrated for a long time, just waiting for the next round of league to officially win the cup.
In the next round, Liverpool will face Crystal Palace at home in the 34th round of the league. As long as Liverpool does not lose, they can win the first Premier League championship trophy in team history at home.
It will be more meaningful to win the cup at Anfield at home, and everyone is looking forward to the moment of winning the cup.
However, before that, Liverpool still has a second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals and an FA Cup semi-final to play.
On April 19, in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Liverpool played at Camp Nou in Spain and then challenged Barcelona away.
With a 4-0 lead in the first round, despite the lessons learned from Barcelona's 6-5 reversal of Paris Saint-Germain in the previous round, Klopp boldly carried out a certain degree of rotation, replacing those who had not been rotated in the previous round of the league. The main players rotated a few more times.
But Willard is still on the court.
As long as Willard is on the court, with his physique, physical fitness, injury resistance, speed, consciousness, and defensive ability, Liverpool is equivalent to having one more person fighting.
Not to mention that Barcelona failed to perform at home against Paris Saint-Germain this time. Even if it did, I'm afraid it would be difficult to score so many goals from Velarde.
In fact, let alone a comeback, Barcelona even failed to score a goal at their home court. It was the same situation as the first round away at Anfield. When Messi, Neymar, and Suarez did not break out in extraordinary form, Barcelona's sleepy passing and passing could not pose much of a threat to Liverpool's defense.
Even if he occasionally made a threatening shot, it was saved by goalkeeper Mignolet, or cleared by Willard or other defenders at the goal line.
In the end, with a goal each from Velarde and Coutinho, Liverpool defeated Barcelona 2-0 at Camp Nou, defeated Barcelona with a total score of 6-0 in two rounds, and advanced to the Champions League four in the 2016/2017 season. powerful.
After the game, the media commented:
"Barcelona failed to come back at home."
"Barcelona cannot repeat a miracle like reversing Paris Saint-Germain in the 1/8 finals."
"In fact, with the lessons learned from Paris, Liverpool has been more vigilant. Although some of the main players were rotated in this game, they were not all rotated, and the most critical free man Willard is still on the court."
"In addition, Barcelona could not repeat their extraordinary performance in that game, so it is reasonable that Liverpool suppressed the game throughout the game, failed to score a goal in two rounds, and were eliminated by Liverpool 6-0. "
"And Liverpool has now won the EFL Cup and the league title, and both the FA Cup and the Champions League have entered the semi-finals."
"Based on this calculation, it is entirely possible for Liverpool to achieve the feat of winning four crowns, which has never been achieved by any team in the Premier League!"
"While other league teams only have one domestic cup and at most a treble, if Liverpool can collect the EFL Cup, Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, they will be the first team in European history to complete four trophies in a single season. King’s team.”
"If they win the English Community Shield, European Super Cup, and Club World Cup in the second half of the season, Liverpool will complete an unprecedented seven crowns in the year, even better than Barcelona's six crowns in 2009."
"Perhaps, this is the inspiration brought by Liverpool's 6-0 victory in today's Champions League quarter-finals."
Seven crowns are very tempting, but now the only thing that is really available is the EFL Cup, and we have to fight for it one game at a time.
But the future is very bright. With Liverpool's current state, there is great hope. Everyone, including the team's top management, coaches, players and fans, is looking forward to it.
In other quarter-finals, Monaco defeated Dortmund with a total score of 6-3 over two rounds and advanced to the semi-finals.
Real Madrid and Bayern Munich tied 3-3 in the two rounds and entered overtime. With Ronaldo's explosion in overtime, Real Madrid defeated Bayern Munich with a total score of 6-3 and advanced to the semi-finals.
Leicester City's dark horse journey was ended by Atletico Madrid. It was a pity that they lost to the Shelter Army with a total score of 1-2 and stopped in the quarterfinals.
Atletico Madrid advanced to the semi-finals.
The semi-final draw ceremony will be held on April 21.
