Thursday, April 18, 2019

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2018-2019 Quarter Finals 2nd leg: Surprises Ajax and Spurs!! Liverpool and Barca on control!

Matthjis De Ligt (Picture taken from Scroll In)

JUVENTUS-AJAX=1-2 Cristiano Ronaldo 28',Donny Van de Beek 34',Matthijs de Ligt 67'.

A free football lesson for Allegri and Juventus. The Ajax Amsterdam did an incredible match showing off skills, ideas, strength and power. A glorious victory 1-2. Juventus was in control until the moment of CR7's goal because since that point the match completely turned upside down playing a second half like champions closing all spaces and attacking as hard as they could and pressing the Bianconeri in their part of the field risking to score even more than 2 goals only stopped by few Szczesny saves. CR7 is not enough. He's not even playing THAT well this year. A mere marketing move and that's all.

BARCELONA-MANCHESTER UNITED=3-0 Lionel Messi 16'and 20',Philippe Coutinho 61'.

We can only write two words: Lionel Messi. A true leader, someone who can really make an impact nowadays in every team against every team. 2 goals in 4 minutes enough to cut the Man Utd's legs. The Solskjaer's team never had great chances here and they just tried a bit but honestly you can't really go to Barcelona and dominate at Camp Nou. Coutinho killed the match with a fantastic strike who beat De Gea who has great faults on the 2-0 when the ball literally slipped under him. Not something you want to see for a supposed to be World Star Goalkeeper in a Quarter Final of Champions League. Applause to Valverde and his team! We think they have big chances of winning the Competition this year.

MANCHESTER CITY-TOTTENHAM=4-3 Raheem Sterling 4'and 21',Son Heung-Min 7'and 10',Bernardo Silva 11',Sergio Aguero 59',Fernando Llorente 73'.

What an incredible night and match between two amazing teams that looked like they were more involved  in a basketball match than a football one! In the first 21 minutes they were already 3-2 for the Manchester team! The Spurs saviour was definitely Son Heung-Min, the Korean sensation who keeps putting up great performances but WE do believe that the Pep's team deserved the get the Semi-Final. They dominated the Spurs for long periods of the match but only a great Lloris and several  mistakes in the last 10 meters gave the big prize to Pochettino's guys! What a pity for Guardiola but this is football! WE also must say that the Llorente's winning goal (4-3) should have been disallowed.It was definitely hand ball so this Tottentham achievement is kind of tainted somehow! Let's remember that the Spurs were playing without their bomber Harry Kane who suffered an injury that will keep him out of the pitch for a long while!

PORTO-LIVERPOOL=1-4 Sadio Mane' 26',Mohamed Salah 65',Eder Militao 68',Roberto Firmino 77',Virgil van Dijk 84'.

Despite the large result this wasn't really a walk in the park for Klopp & Co. All the faults on the mistakes made by the Sergio Conceicao's players. Too many and you can't really miss chances at this level of football otherwise you get punished at some point. Exactly what happened here. The Portuguese pushed very hard without hitting the goal and after 26 minutes of suffering It was Sadio Mane' who found the "breathing" goal. A very important one considering the 2-0 advantage they had. But it was only after the 0-2 by Salah that Liverpool really took over even if Militao managed to score a header few minutes after Salah for the 1-2. The match was  already over anyway and in all that space the Reds are unbeatable so they made 2 more goals. Harsh and undeserved result for Porto which probably learned a lesson today. The team looks fine anyway. They just have to learn how to transform all those chances in goals. Good luck! 

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE'S SEMI FINALISTS:

AJAX
TOTTENHAM SPURS
BARCELONA
LIVERPOOL












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