AdvertisingThe Liverpool players faced a 3-0 deficit against Barcelona from the first leg of the Champions League semifinals. How to explain, then, a remarkable 4-0 win that sent Liverpool into a second straight Champions League final, 4-3 on aggregate? Klopp was full of praise for the lucid thinking of Alexander-Arnold, the youngest player on the Liverpool team, and said he hadn’t even seen the corner being taken. As for Liverpool, given the opposition this display rivaled the comeback from three goals down against AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League final. Barcelona had no answer, with Messi _ the star of the first leg with two goals _ largely snuffed out.

Source: Indian Express May 07, 2019 21:29 UTC