Champions League .. qualification accounts and Liverpool are the most fortunate

There was a lot of talk about the extent of the suffering that Liverpool faced in the first leg of the Champions League final on the French Paris Saint-Germain, and the amount of opportunities that the latter wasted among its fans, but in the language of the numbers the “red” grabbed the preference by their late 1-0 victory in “Park de-France”, which makes them the most fortunate Tuesday to resolve the qualification.
Saint -Germain did not deserve the defeat on Wednesday at home, because it was clearly the best party and the numbers were speaking for itself, as the percentage of his acquisition of the ball reached 70.5 percent and hit the goal of its English guest 27 times, including 10 between the three woods, compared to only two attempts for the men of the Dutch coach Arna Slot, one between the three woods and the goal of the alternative Harvey Elliot in the 87 Mohamed Salah.
The Brazilian goalkeeper Alison Baker starred in defending his goal in facing the attempts of the French host, whose Spanish coach, Luis Enrique, said after the meeting, “I was very superior to playing on Liverpool. Based on the many opportunities that we created, we succeeded in facing one of the best teams in Europe and presented a full match and we took the risks, we were clearly deserved a different result,” considering the result “unfair”.
In turn, Moroccan star Ashraf Hakimi said that the Capital Club came out “disappointed” from the meeting, vowing to take revenge at Anfield.
“We went out frustrated because we took control of the match and created many opportunities while they got only one chance and scored,” he added.
On the second leg, scheduled for Tuesday, he said, “I saw the desire and personality, we took control of the entire match and I do not think that it will happen in this way over two games. (If we play) with the same dynamism that we played today (Wednesday) we will move to the next round.”
Saint-Germain is preparing to visit Anfield in the best way through his big victory on Rin in the domestic league that his team Enrique leads, with a very large difference from his closest attachments, while Liverpool suffered again, but he finally knew how to produce victorious at the expense of Southampton 3-1 after he was backward Saturday in the 28th stage of the league, thanks to a double of two penalty kicks by Egyptian Mohamed Salah.
After Arsenal’s pursuit was satisfied with a draw with Manchester United 1-1, the title of the title has become more open to Liverpool, which is 15 points behind “artillery”.

The suffering is not over

The opportunity will be in front of “Al-Hamr” to win their first title for the season when they face Sunday with Newcastle in the League Cup final, but the focus will be first on Saint-Germain, who has never won on the ground of his English rival on his previous two visit in 1997 in the second leg of the cup cup semi-finals (0-2) and 2018 in the Champions League group stage (2-3).
The Dutch commander of Liverpool, Virgal Van Dyck, considered that his team’s suffering against the French Saint -Germain has not ended yet, saying, “It must be a great match and we must be ready to suffer, because it is a very good team that has not lost a very long time.”
He continued, “What I really loved is the spirit of the team, everyone did his best and we know that everyone is able to become better.”
Van Dyck considered that playing in a defensive style is not from Liverpool, but he praised a “world -class” competitor, stressing, “We do not want to play in this way because everyone who plays football wants to own the ball a lot and wants to be in control of the competitor.”
He continued, “But we are playing against a team with great potential and world -class skills. They have made it very difficult for everyone in the world until now and made it difficult for us, but we have found our way and we should finish the mission next week (Tuesday).”

Leverkusen is waiting for the impossible

On “Bay Arena”, Bayer Leverkusen appears to need the impossible to compensate for his loss outside the home in front of his local rival Bayern Munich with three clean goals, thus receiving his first defeat out of seven confrontations that he was led by Spanish coach Shabi Alonso against the Bavarian club.
What makes the Alonso team’s task that lost the efforts of its first star, Florian Vertz, who was injured 14 minutes after the start of the Saturday match in the domestic league against Werder Bremen, which was lost by the champions at home 0-2.
After losing back in Munich, Alonso said, “After this match, we need some time to recover. In football, I saw great miracles in many cases, and we definitely need one.”
But the reaction that Alonso was searching was not present on Saturday against Bremen, but the position of leaders Bayern was not different, as it fell in front of Boukhum 3-2 for the first time in Munich since 1991, after he was ahead of two clean goals, affected by the numerical deficiency in his ranks and also wasting the opportunity to advance 3-0 from a penalty and the decision of his Belgian coach Vincent Kompany to comfort most of his stars, so that the difference remains between The two teams are eight points.
As for Bayern Harry Caen’s English top scorer, “It is an opportunity for us to show a reaction. Leverkusen lost two successive matches and thus he will try to respond strongly at home and we must be ready for that.”
In the other two games on Tuesday, Barcelona and Inter, Italian, appears to be in a completely similar position, as they host the Portuguese Benfica and Dutch Fenoord, respectively, with great preference as a result of their victory away from home 1-0 and 2-0.
Barcelona is playing in a difficult situation morally after the death of his doctor, Carles Minaro Garcia, on Saturday, which led to the postponement of his league match against Osasuna.