Champions League

Liverpool – Manchester City (3-0)

1st leg of Liverpool vs Manchester City was played last Wednesday at Anfield. Liverpool fans welcomed City team to Anfield by destroying their bus. Liverpool started the game very well and ofcourse it was Mohamed Salah that scored the first goal only after 12’ minutes when Firmino won the ball of Kyle Walker inside the penalty area and got it to Salah that finish it in the top corner. 9’ minutes later it was time for the OX, James Milner got his 8th assist when he passed the ball to Oxlade Chamberlain that scored a banger from a 30 meter outside the box, absolute beauty. He is showing everybody now how good he is and important team player. Only 10’ minutes later Liverpool scored their 3rd goal and now it was Sadio Mane, it was Mohamed Salah that was trying to get past Aymeric Laporte but couldn’t so he decided to cross the ball to the back post and there was three Liverpool players, Firmino, Mane and Jordan Henderson, no one was near them and it was Sane that got the header and finished the first game by winning 3-0. Manchester had 11 shots but none of them went on goal so the were never threating the Liverpool defence. Man of the match was ofcourse Mohamed Salah, one assist and one goal. For Manchester City it was the defender Otamendi he had 99 passes and 88% that went to teammate.

Manchester City – Liverpool (1-2)

The second game of the tie was played at Etihad last Tuesday. The game started really good and Manchester City got a goal after only 2’ minutes when Raheem Sterling pressed Van Dijk in a difficult situation and Fernandinho won the ball and got it to Raheem again and got it to Gabriel Jesus that got the first goal and got City fans and players to believe. Manchester played fantastic in the first half and Liverpool didn’t seem so confidence. Bernardo Silva got a shot in the post and City kept pressuring to get the goal. Kevin De Bruyne crossed the ball and Loris Karius punched the ball into Milner that passed it to Sane that scored but the referees disallowed the goal because the said it was offside. When the referee whistle for halftime Pep Guardiola wasn’t happy with the decision of the offside and said something to the referees and got suspended from the bench and had to watch the game from the stands. Manchester City came out from the halftime not with the same energy as they had in the first half, you could clearly see that City players didn’t have the same pace, focus and atmosphere with them. Mohamed Salah took advance of it and scored in an open goal after Ederson missed the ball from his hands. 20’ minutes later Roberto Firmino made a brilliant press on Otamendi who missed the ball to Firmino. Firmino got 1v1 against Ederson and placed it brilliantly in the bottom corner. That was game over for Manchester City. They tried to do a difference but didn’t acchive. Liverpool defence played really good in this tie and their offence are so frightened that they can clearly win the Champions League. Klopp always gets their best from the team when he is playing against the big clubs. Semi final will be exciting to see because how Liverpool play so direct.