April 2019 9th April 2019: Champions League - Quarter-Final 1st Leg: Liverpool : 2 - 0 : Porto 17th April 2019: Champions League - Quarter-Final 2nd Leg: Porto : 1 - 4 : LiverpoolLiverpool barely made it out of their group of death, only securing advancement with a 1-0 victory against Napoli in the final game knowing almost any other scoreline wouldn’t be good enough. More white accents are present in the form of subtle. The Liverpool Champions League Shirt 2019/20 season has a simple, slim crew-neck collar, red with white trim along the top. This is a special edition 2019/20 season home shirt with a homage to the teams 6 times Champions League winners special crest. LIVERPOOL Champions League Shirt 2019.Enjoy.18th September 2018. Here is a gallery of the best pictures of the lads celebrating the club’s sixth European crown. Liverpool defeated Tottenham 2-0 to capture the 2019 UEFA Champions League trophy.The German giants had struggled domestically in the autumn, but their fans believed they were rounding into form at the right time to just maybe catch Dortmund in the Bundesliga and make a deep run in the Champions League—and given they did in fact go on to catch Dortmund and win the Bundesliga, it’s clear that Liverpool were in fact facing a very difficult opponent.A Brief History of Liverpool’s 2018-19 Champions League Run, Part 1 A Brief History of Liverpool’s Greatest European ComebacksMore than that, in addition to their dipping form—or perhaps at the root of it—Liverpool were in the midst of a defensive injury crisis and Virgil van Dijk was out for the first leg due to an accumulation of yellow cards, meaning Joël Matip and midfielder Fabinho started in a cobbled-together defence. Meanwhile, Bayern Munich arrived at Anfield with their own set of questions and uncertainties. It was an open question, then, whether Liverpool could rediscover their crushing form of the past season’s Champions League run, or if there would be more struggle—struggle like their road losses to Napoli, Paris Saint-Germain, and Red Star Belgrade.Their first chance to answer those questions didn’t result in much of an answer. Napoli.It didn’t help that, as the winter dragged on the club was hitting a period of relative struggle domestically—still getting results, only those results were increasingly draws rather than wins. Champions League - Matchday Two.There was Mané, bamboozling Manuel Neuer to score 26 minutes into the match to open things. Oddly, while Liverpool were again better than Bayern—Bayern, champions of Germany, in their building—they didn’t create as much as in the home leg where they had failed to score.Only, well, there was Mané. They’d had their shot, at Anfield no less, and now the advantage turned in Bayern’s favour.As in the group stages when they left it late and unlikely, so too in the Round of 16, and much of that only thanks to the heroics of Sadio Mané. Heading back to Germany for the second leg, then, it almost felt as though Liverpool had thrown away their best chance at advancing. And somehow it still wasn’t enough.Liverpool had played poorly at times—in the Champions League and Premier League both—but it was hard to think of a time they played as well as they did against Bayern in the first leg and didn’t get the result. They had recently drawn with Leicester and West Ham in the league—and would go on to draw with Man United immediately after facing Bayern—but for one night in what would be a very, very difficult February for the Reds, they looked at their best.
Their winter lull in the league had been put behind them. Porto had beaten Roma in the Round of 16 and won their group, but in the end the 6-1 aggregate scoreline felt like a fair reflection of the tie.Liverpool were confident now, and why shouldn’t they be? Those away day struggles in the group stage felt a distant memory. Somewhere in the midst of it all, Eder Militao scored a consolation goal for Porto, but at no point after things kicked off in Portugal did the game or tie feel in doubt. Then Salah got his, then Firmino, then Van Dijk with another headed effort off another corner. Porto gamely tried to match the Reds early, but those early forays almost felt quaint as their chances crashed against Liverpool’s defensive wall, and as the minutes ticked past it began to almost felt too easy as Liverpool began to push forward themselves, exploiting the spaces left by a side that couldn’t keep up with their speed and physicality but knew they had to try to even have a chance in the tie.That chance for Porto disappeared completely when Sadio Mané scored, Liverpool’s in-form forward again registering a 26th minute opener on the continent, an away goal that meant Porto would need to score four times without a response from the Reds. Porto were forced to open up their game at home in search of the goals they knew they would need and Liverpool responded with a storming attacking performance. At the Camp Nou, without Firmino, against the game’s greatest ever player, they more than gave the La Liga champions a game. They knew—the fans, the players, the pundits—that this was a top side, one capable of going toe-to-toe with arguably the best team in Europe and unquestionably the game’s greatest ever player.Which is exactly what they did. Still, if Liverpool had entered the knockout rounds in a place of uncertainty, there was none of that now. There was the not insignificant matter of an injury to Roberto Firmino, their attacking fulcrum and press-setting false nine. How to soften wood puttyIn the league just two days earlier, Manchester City had dispatched Leicester, and with that Liverpool’s best chance at winning their first league trophy in 29 years was gone. Firmino was still out, not even judged fit enough to make the bench this time around, and Mo Salah now was injured, too. If that result had been an annoyance and a blow that had felt as though it tilted things in favour of their opponents, this result hurt and, for at least the next day or two, made it feel as though the tie was over.Because if Liverpool couldn’t get anything—couldn’t even get an away goal—against Barcelona after playing that well against them, what hope did they have? What hope was there, down three goals needing to score four while holding the game’s greatest ever player and his entourage off the scoresheet? What hope was there needing to score five or six or more if Barcelona got the away goal Liverpool hadn’t?Even knowing how it ends, even most of a month on from it, it somehow doesn’t feel real. Feeling feminine growing olderArguably the best team in Europe and unquestionably the game’s greatest ever player, undone. And the two, the team and the supporters, fed off each other while Barcelona shook and tried to stand and steadied themselves under the combined weight of it all and then, in the end, crumbled. There may never be another comeback and another famous European night that quite measures up to what Liverpool did against Barcelona on the 7th of May, when despite the disappointment of the league and despite the disappointment of the first leg, Liverpool believed. There will surely be others in the future. Etienne and Brugge and Dortmund. There has been Milan and Olympiakos and St.
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