2022-05-03
90+2 MINUTES: FULL TIME. LIVERPOOL IS THE FIRST FINALIST OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. With a score of 3-2 the English won in Spain, 5-2 on aggregate. Fabinho, Luis Díaz and Mané scored the goals for Klopp’s team/
90 MINUTES: Two more are added in La Cerámica.
MINUTE 88: Counterattack five against two from Liverpool and Salah could not define. Forgive the English.
MINUTE 85: Capoue is expelled and Villarreal is left with one less.
MINUTE 83: Villareal is leaving a lot of space in defense and Liverpool wants more goals.
MINUTE 79: Rulli makes a great save and prevents Liverpool’s fourth goal. 3-2 win the English, 5-2 is the aggregate.
MINUTE 74: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL for Liverpool, Mané makes it 3-2 against Villarreal after a bad start by Rulli far from his goal and with the goal completely alone he finished with his left foot. They get a spectacular comeback.
MINUTE 67: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL for Liverpool, Luis Díaz scores the second goal with a great header and silences the La Cerámica stadium. 4-2 is the global score in favor of the English.
MINUTE 65: UUUUFFF… Luis Díaz was close to scoring the second goal for Liverpool. The shot hit Rulli’s left upright.
MINUTE 61: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOl from Liverpool, Fabinho makes it 2-1 against Villarreal with a powerful cross shot. Rulli lost the ball between his legs.
MINUTE 60: Liverpool continues to attack and Villarreal defends with everything they have. Liverpool is another team in the complement part.
MINUTE 56: Luis Díaz tries to make a volley shot after a great cross from Mané, but he did not connect the ball correctly.
MINUTE 55: UUUFFF… Powerful shot from Alexander-Arnold, the ball deflected off a Villarreal player and then crashed into the horizontal. Villarreal is saved. The English rule.
MINUTE 50: Liverpool started very aggressively with Luis Díaz on the pitch.
MINUTE 47: Klopp tries to fix the mess and makes a change. Luis Díaz enters for Diogo Jota.
MINUTE 46: The second half starts in Spain, Villarreal wins 2-0 against Liverpool. The series is tied.
45+2 MINUTES: At the end of the first half, Villarreal is beating Liverpool 2-0 and tied the series in the Champions League semifinals. With this marker the game would go to extra time.
45 MINUTES: Two more minutes are added.
MINUTE 40: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOL for Villarreal, Coquelin makes it 2-0 against Villarreal with a beautiful header. 2-2 is now the aggregate score.
MINUTE 36: Alisson takes Lo Celso out of the match and Villarreal claims a criminal foul. The referee does not sanction anything.
MINUTE 35: Villarreal is still up on the scoreboard and dominates Liverpool. Lack of precision in the last pass.
MINUTE 28: Villarreal has more of the ball than Liverpool. Possession is won by the Spanish. The English do not find precision.
MINUTE 23: Jota is hand in hand with Rulli and could not define. Then they called a foul on Salah. Villarreal is saved.
MINUTE 18: Villarreal 1-0 Liverpool.
MINUTE 15: Liverpool is saved again, Moreno connects a cross with a header, but the ball crashed into the English defense.
MINUTE 11: Parejo’s shot and Alisson keeps the ball.
MINUTE 10: Free kick from the left and Jota fails to connect the ball well.
MINUTE 7: Great start for Villarreal who are one goal away from equalizing on the aggregate scoreboard. With that, the game would go into overtime.
MINUTE 3: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL for Villarreal, Boulaye Dia scores 1-0 against Liverpool with a shot from the right inside the area. 2-1 the aggregate score is set.
MINUTE 1: The match begins at the La Cerámica stadium between Villarreal and Liverpool for the semifinals of the Champions League.
12:58 PM: The anthem of the Champions League is already playing. Teams ready.
12:45 PM: Game time is drawing near. Will there be a miracle or will Liverpool advance to the final?
11:50 AM: In Liverpool there are two novelties in relation to the team that played in the first leg. One is Keita, who comes in for Captain Henderson. The other is the entry of Diogo Jota by Luis Díaz.
11:45 AM: At Villarreal nine of those who did at Anfield play. The attacking duo Chukwueze-Danjuma falls and Gerard Moreno and Dia enter.
11:40 AM: Liverpool have also announced their starting line-up to seek a spot in the Champions League final: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Konaté, Van Dijk, Robertson; Fabinho, Keita, Thiago; Diogo Jota, Salah and Mané.
11:35 AM: Villarreal announces its 11 starters with whom it will seek the comeback at home: Rulli; Foyth, Albiol Pau Torres, Estupiñán; Lo Celso, Coquelin, Capoue, Parejo; Gerard Moreno and Dia.
11:30 AM: Welcome to the minute by minute of the second leg of the Champions League semifinals between Villarreal and Liverpool, which will be played at the La Cerámica stadium.
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The Villarreal receives this Tuesday Liverpool in the semifinal round of the Champions League with the difficult mission of overcoming the 2-0 conceded last Wednesday at Anfield.
“We have to play a perfect game, seek excellence,” warned the coach of the Villarreal, Unai Emery, winner of four Europa League, but has not yet been able to raise any ‘Orejona’.
“The team is excited”, added the coach of the ‘Yellow Submarine’, calling on his fans to fill the La Cerámica stadium to try to reverse the difficult situation.
On his second occasion in a semifinal of Champions16 years after the last time it reached this stage of the competition, the Villarreal he still trusts in being able to take one more step, knowing the difficulty.
The ‘groguets’ fans cling to the memory of the elimination in the second round of Juventus or in the quarterfinals of the powerful Bayern Munich.
A goal by Samu Chukwueze almost over the bell allowed the ‘Yellow Submarine’ to get into semifinals and now they hope to be able to surprise again.
‘strong at home’
“We have our people on our side, we have seen this season a very strong Villarreal at home in very important games,” said the central defender on Monday. VillarrealPau Torres.
Forced to look for the goal, the Basque coach will try to recover for this match his scorer Gerard Moreno, who could not be on the pitch at Anfield due to injury.
“Today Gerard has trained with the group. We’ll see tomorrow,” he said. Emery.
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The Spanish international, author of 13 goals this season, should be the complement to the other great gunner of the ‘Yellow Submarine’, the Dutchman Arnaud Danjuma, who also arrives touched to the match.
“Let’s see if we can do something big on Tuesday with the help of Vila-real and all of Spain,” said midfielder Manu Trigueros after losing the league match against Alavés 2-1 on Saturday.
Shut up behind for the entire first leg due to ‘red’ pressure, the Villarreal will have to launch with everything on Tuesday against a Liverpoolwho arrives encouraged after his extensive command of the first leg, although the coach Jürgen Klopp He doesn’t want trust.
‘You have to give everything’
“We are in the break. You have to forget about the result of the first leg, ”he said this Monday Kloppassuring that “we have to go there, knowing that we have to give everything”.
“We will have to play a game of the highest level because they are going to come looking for us, they are going to press higher than what we left them in the first leg”, advanced the German coach of the Liverpoolnewly renovated in office.
The Liverpool arrives at La Cerámica after beating Newcastle 1-0 in the English championship, where they remain second, just one point behind Manchester City, which faces Real Madrid on Wednesday in the other Champions League semifinal.
The ‘Reds’ are still in the race to win four titles this season after winning the Carabao Cup, being in the FA Cup final, and in contention for the Champions and the Premier.
Knowing the importance of Tuesday’s meeting, Klopp He did not hesitate to leave five of his main pillars on the bench against Newcastle.
Konaté, Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho, Thiago and Mohamed Salah rested a little over the weekend with a view to Villarreal and a demanding game.
Likely teams:
Villarreal: Rulli – Foyth, Albiol, P. Torres, Estupiñan – Parejo, Capoue, Coquelin – Lo Celso, G. Moreno, Alcacer. Coach: Unai Emery.
Liverpool: Alisson – Alexander-Arnold, Konaté, Van Dijk, Robertson – Henderson, Fabinho, Thiago – Salah, Mané, Díaz. Trainer: Jurgen Klopp (GER).
Arbitro: Danny Makkelie (NED)