Liverpool celebrate "victory of a great team", Salah: "Want Real Madrid in the final"

Klopp and his players continue the excellent season with a third final, a season in which they broke a record of conquests for the club.

Commentators caption: "Luis Diaz changed the game."

Fabino on the turnaround: "A big team knows how to react."

Salah admits: Seeking revenge on Blancos

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03/05/2022

Tuesday, 03 May 2022, 23:54 Updated: Wednesday, 04 May 2022, 00:57

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Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz celebrate Liverpool's qualification for the Champions League final: "Paris, we're coming!"

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Liverpool qualified tonight (Tuesday) for the Champions League final, after another memorable game, in which the team from Merseyside demonstrated not only their talent, but especially their character when they defeated Villarreal 2: 3 in Spain.

Villarreal, who lost 2-0 in the first game at Anfield, came up with great enthusiasm, scored an early goal in the 3rd minute, scored the second before the break, and went down to half with a 0-2 lead, with Jürgen Klopp's players looking stunned.

But after the break Klopp's players recovered, came out of shock, and scored quick goals that turned the score around.

Fabino (62), Diaz (67) and Mana (74) took advantage of two mistakes by Rowley, goalkeeper Villarreal, who would rather forget this evening, who finished a great journey for the Spaniards in the factory.

This is the tenth time Liverpool have appeared in the final, looking for their seventh win.

She will meet in the final in Paris the winner between Manchester City and Real Madrid, who will play tomorrow at the Bernabeu after 3: 4 to City in the first game.

The quadruple dream is still going on.

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Liverpool in the Champions League final after 2: 3 over Villarreal away

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An evening of records for him and his friends.

Mana (Photo: Reuters)

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, who did not cover Francis Kocklen badly in Liverpool's second absorption, improved significantly in the second half and cooked up Luis Diaz's 2-2.

The defender said at the end: "It always seems to be difficult for us in these semi-finals. In the second half we caught the game at the back and did what we had to do, win teeth. The first half was hard, we expected it and still could not control the game. There was one bad half out of two games. From it with a victory in the teeth. "

who shrank to 2-1 and opened the scoring, concluded: "Villarreal gave their all in the first half. The crowd pushed it, we had a hard time. But a big team knows how to react and that's what we did tonight. My goal? I was sure Sadio was different, so I just kicked." .

Asked at the end who he would like to meet in the final, he replied directly and honestly: "I want to play against Madrid, I have to be real. City are a very strong team, we have played against them three times this season, but personally, I want to play against Real. We lost. They have a final, and now I want to play against them. "

As you may recall, Salah was injured in the previous meeting against the Blancos in the final, and was replaced.

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There were moments like that too.

Liverpool in the first half (Photo: GettyImages, Chris Brunskill / Fantasista)

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And as usual in England, it is impossible without referring to the commentators and the stinging reactions.

After Villarreal took a 0-2 lead, commentator Gary Neville (ex-United) has already tweeted a picture of himself drinking wine with pleasure, as he has done many times in the past at Liverpool's falls.

Jamie Krager, a former Liverpool player and friend of the commentary position, later posted a picture of himself smiling next to him, against the backdrop of the upheaval.

Arsene Wenger, another commentator, complimented the winner's strikers: "Salah, Mana, what they have done since returning from the African Championships, it's monstrous. In Europe we complain that there are too many games, Mana has never complained, I admire it."

Former commentator and actor Michael Owen compliments Klopp's Joker,

Who came in at the break and made the change: "I've never seen a player come in and start running like that. To be able to fit into Liverpool from the first moment as he did, is something absolutely amazing. He's definitely a developing player."

Commentator Peter Crouch: "Diaz has changed the game. There's a team full of legends here, and he's at the same level as them. He has to start in the final. He came in, and turned the whole locker room."

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Liverpool goalkeeper Allison with Trent Alexander Arnold (Photo: GettyImages, David Ramos)

Virgil Van Dyke celebrates Liverpool's win over Villarreal (Photo: GettyImages, David Ramos)

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The numbers

* This will be Liverpool's third final of the season, having won the League Cup and also qualified for the Cup final.

* This is the third time Liverpool have qualified for the Champions League final in the last five seasons under Klopp in the group.

* Fabinio has scored his first goal in the Champions League since 2017, then played for Monaco.

This is his first hair in a Liverpool uniform at the factory.

* Sadio Mane has passed Didier Drogba, and is the African player with the most goals in the knockout stage of the Champions League (15).

He equaled Frank Lampard as the player to score the most goals in a knockout for an English team.

* Liverpool's third goal has raised them to 139 goals this season in all competitions - the most Liverpool have ever scored in a single season.

And she has 6 more games left until the end of the season

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