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Lo Celso disputes the ball with Mané. AFP7 via Europa Press (Europa Press)
Villarreal will play this Tuesday at the La Cerámica stadium starting at 9:00 p.m. in the second semifinal of its history in the Champions League.
The first, in 2006, fell against Arsenal.
Tonight, Unai Emery's team will seek to overcome the feat of Juan Román Riquelme and company and get into the final.
The winner of the duel between Real Madrid and Manchester City will be waiting for him there (this Wednesday they face each other at the Bernabéu, 4-3 in the first leg).
The yellow box must overcome a 0-2 against the six-time winner of the Champions League.
The last one he won in 2019, already with Klopp in command of the Anfield team.
VLLVillarreal
0
Rulli, Juan Foyth, Pau Torres, Albiol, Estupiñán, Parejo, Giovani Lo Celso, Capoue, Coquelin, Boulaye Dia and Gerard Moreno
LIV Liverpool
0
Alisson, Ibrahima Konate, A. Robertson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil Van Dijk, Fabinho, Naby Keita, Thiago, Diogo Jota, Salah and Mane
goals
Referee
Danny Makkelie
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There are barely five minutes left before the semi-final begins, for Villarreal and Liverpool to meet with the ball in between.
Only one will go to the final and will face the winner of Real Madrid-Manchester City.
The Champions League tune sounds at La Cerámica as the players parade onto the pitch.
Play the team photo, the last breaths of encouragement and that... The ball starts rolling!
Jordi Quixano18:57
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This is how the Villarreal fans received their team when they arrived at the stadium....
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It rains in Vila-Real but the party in the stands, the revelry, is championship.
"We need them," said Gerard Moreno.
Liverpool has already retired to the locker room to listen to Klopp's latest slogans, while Villarreal's men are finishing the activation exercises and touching the ball.
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The match, still to be played, seems to have a script similar to this one.
Villarreal will come out strong, with high pressure, in search of scoring a goal that will bring them closer to the match.
But it's not his specialty either and Liverpool are attacking machines, so presumably Emery's side will delay the pressure to a low block.
That is where Villarreal is comfortable, a team that always comes out shotgunned on the counterattack.
It will be necessary, in any case, for him to score a goal in the first half so that Liverpool will have doubts.
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Villarreal has already stepped into the Champions League semifinals once in history.
It was in 2006 and he lacked the edge of a hard to qualify for the final duel.
Only a missed penalty from Riquelme in the shootout deprived him of the crush.
Now, the town of Villarreal, with 50,577 inhabitants, is 90 minutes away from achieving it.
It will not be easy because of Liverpool's potential and because they will have to do it for more than two goals, a condition that none of the 53 rivals that Klopp's team has had throughout the season has done.
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Villarreal's great career in this edition of the Champions League.
In the group stage they finished second, behind Manchester United.
Dismounted from the competition were Atalanta and Young Boys.
Already in the round of 16, they beat Juventus with a recital in Italy (0-3).
In the quarterfinals, he dropped Bayern, one of the great favorites for the final laurel.
And now they are facing Klopp's Liverpool, perhaps the fittest team in Europe with the permission of Manchester City [tomorrow they will face Madrid].
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Gerard Moreno
has spoken to
Movistar
before the match and at the foot of the pitch.
.- "We are going to leave everything on the field and the fans are going to encourage us so that we don't fall physically or mentally
.- "Let's see how the game starts. It is one of the best teams now, in a state of brutal form. There we suffered a lot, they passed us over. But here we are with our people and we must come out strong because a goal puts us in the tie."
.- "In the first leg they played a great game, they annulled us. Let's hope that today it will be the other way around. We must have a lot of strength and desire for the perfect game to take place".
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Good afternoon everyone!
It is a pleasure to be with you to tell you about the direct match between Villarreal and Liverpool, the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals.
In the first leg, Klopp's team won 2-0 with goals from Estupiñán (own goal) and Mané.
Let's go there!
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