Topic: CL: R Mad 1 vs 0 Liverpool Benzema 78’

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MATCH PREVIEW – Real Madrid C.F vs Liverpool FC
Aggregate score - 5-2

Date – 15/03/2023
Kick off - 8.00pm
TV - BT Sport

Officials


Referee
Felix Zwayer GER

Assistant referees
Stefan Lupp GER
Marco Achmüller GER

Fourth official
Sven Jablonski GER

Video Assistant Referee
Marco Fritz GER

Assistant Video Assistant Referee
Christian Dingert GER

Match Preview

Liverpool travel to Madrid trailing 5-2 from the first leg at Anfield, a dispiriting night having led 2-0 in front of a raucous crowd early on. If there is any football club that can climb a mountain like the one Jurgen Klopp and the players are facing on Wednesday night, then surely it's our beloved one. So in the event that you have any doubt as to whether it might be possible, here's a little trip down the European memory lane to remind you that with this football club, the impossible can very much become the possible.

Liverpool's greatest European comebacks

Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona (4-3 on aggregate) Champions League semi-finals 2018/19





Unfortunate to find themselves 3-0 down from the first leg, the Reds problems mounted with the loss of Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah ahead of the second leg. With a makeshift front three of Shaqiri-Origi-Mane, Liverpool embarked on the most remarkable of comebacks, Origi setting the tone with an early goal to light the touch paper, before a quick fire brace from Gini Wijnaldum drew the Reds level. Then came perhaps what is now the most famous corner routine of all time and rest as they say is history.

Liverpool 4-3 Borussia Dortmund (5-4 on aggregate) Europa League quarter-finals 2015/16



The night that the Klopp era truly exploded and a quite frankly ludicrous turnaround that only Liverpool Football Club are capable of. A very credible 1-1 draw in Dortmund very quickly unravelled as the Reds found themselves 2-0 down within ten minutes at Anfield. 0-2 became 1-2, then 1-3, leaving the Reds requiring three goals in the final thirty minutes to find a way through. The picture paints it better than I ever could.

Liverpool 3-1 Olympiakos - Champions League Group Stage 2004/05



Oh you beauty. Steven Gerrard with a famous trademark rescue act which lead to one of the most iconic commentary lines of all time. And it also lead to this...

Liverpool 3-3 AC Milan - Champions League Final 2005



The greatest comeback in football history. 3-0 down against one of the finest sides ever assembled, the Reds stormed back in six second half minutes before landing our first European Cup in 21 years on penalties.

I could go on with many, many more, but you get the gist. With Liverpool Football Club, it's not over until it's over in this wonderful competition. It will arguably require a triumph which would equal or better those listed above, but if any club can produce it against the odds, I'd be backing ours.

It's the hope that gets you as they say. I'll leave you with one last image to whet the appetite. Up the Reds!

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0 underway at the Estadio Bernabeu

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2 Benzema put through on goal but he’s miles off

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6 corner to Madrid

Cleared by the reds

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7 mistake by Madrid and Mo robs them, Rüdiger gets back by Mo wins it again, feeds Nunez who has a shot saved low down by Courtois

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8 free kick to Madrid, pretty much a hickey short corner, the reds clear

Then we give the ball away carelessly and Madrid slice through us, a cut back is cleared by Milner 

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11 corner to Madrid again

Which VVD heads clear, Kronos hits one from distance but straight at Alisson

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12 corner to the reds, VVD sprays one to Mo who beats the full back


It’s cleared and they break and nearly score

Corner to them, back post, headed across goal and somehow Alisson saves a certain goal 

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18 break down the right by Mo, cuts it back and it’s a tricky mid air volley that he skews wide

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That Rudiger challenge is as wild as it gets. Strange refereeing so far...

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20 long shot by Camavinga that a Alisson tips onto the bar..

4 vs 2 in midfield is hard, we need to play on the break, but we haven’t always hit the right ball

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21 another corner to them

Cleared well but it comes to Modric 25 yards out who shoots just over..

We’ve got to use the long diagonals  to get inthe game

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20 long shot by Camavinga that a Alisson tips onto the bar..

4 vs 2 in midfield is hard, we need to play on the break, but we haven’t always hit the right ball

The last comment kind of sums up the season somehow.

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Over to Jill

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25 Nunez did really well there beating a couple of challenges, the ball is put across the box but it is just short of Jota.

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26 One of the Madrid players has just been Milnered! Free kick, but the flag goes up eventually.

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We’re totally over run in midfield… but you’ve got to chose to stick or twist when you’re 5-2 down and we’ve chosen to twist and ignore midfield

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28 Wow! We get a free kick for a foul on Salah, a real wrestling move. It came to nothing.

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30 Milner makes Trent work a bit by overhitting his pass. Then Trent tries a long pass over the Madrid defence but it's too long.

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Alisson just casually throwing in two of the best saves you’ll see

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32 That a was a nice shot there by Nunez which ends up with a corner as it was saved.

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33 There was an opportunity there for Konate, but he doesn't really have the right touch and the ball goes out.

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34 Vini Jnr has a chance but he makes a mess of it.

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35 A good header from Gakpo we get a corner. The ball goes in towards Salah and Madrid are forced to put it out for another corner. We take that one but get called offside.

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34 Vini Jnr has a chance but he makes a mess of it.

He’s been sensational again tonight

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36 Madrid using their experience to time waste. 

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He’s been sensational again tonight

I was going to reply to that, but I don't want to fate us so I won't. Yes, he's been good. 

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39 Oh, the one time we win the ball high up but Trent can't find a team mate.

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40 Madrid get sloppy and we regain the ball but the build is too slow and in the end Fab trying to find Trent puts the ball out.

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Kinda wish we had started with Firmino in the middle rather than Jota, he's just so off the pace.

Plenty of time left for Bobby I guess…

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Was The Jota pen appeal that was given offside, actually off?

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43 It's the usual not being able to find our team mates with the final ball. This time Milner.

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Was The Jota pen appeal that was given offside, actually off?

I don’t know, I thought it was in real time

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44 Madrid found offside again, which has happened quite a bit this half. It feels like this game hasn't quite started somehow.

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45+2

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41 Now that was better. We get a corner after a good move which starts from Milner with some good work from Nunez

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42 The move from the corner breaks down eventually with Robertson failing to find a Liverpool shirt. H/T 0-0.

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45 back under way