Liverpool will visit Villarreal, Spain, on Tuesday in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final, scoring two clean sheets to put them on the brink of the final in a season in which a historic quartet has been sought.
Given the clear result of the first leg, last season’s Europa League champions Villarreal, led by Unai Emery, found it hard to get back on track in light of the remarkable brilliance of the English team.
Coach Emery said of the first leg match, “We fought back defensively to have different return leg options. There will be a difficult match at the La Ceramica stadium. We will test them more.
In turn, the German Klopp said: “This is a semi-final and it should be difficult, we did not expect this role to be easy at all, we had a good match at home, and now we need to repeat it. abroad. We don’t know at all if we will have a chance to reach another semi-final.”
And before that, the two teams had only met in two continental matches, in the Europa League semi-finals in the 2015-2016 season, when Liverpool, under the leadership of German coach Jurgen Klopp, made up the gap 0-1 in the first leg. in Spain to win 3-0 again at Anfield before losing in the final to Sevilla and especially Emery 1-3 at Basel Switzerland.