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Chapter 333 Liverpool Fans' Show of Force

Porto, having made a strategic mistake, lost 0-5 away from home.
Conceição paid a heavy price for his underestimation. Everyone knew that this score meant the second leg was already a foregone conclusion.

For Liverpool, all they need to do now is wait for their semi-final opponent.

When the match ended, Porto's players left the stadium with grim faces. Their performance in the Champions League this season had been excellent; reaching the quarterfinals was ample proof of their strength. If they hadn't adopted the wrong strategy against Liverpool, they wouldn't have suffered such a crushing defeat.

The cheers at Anfield Stadium lasted for a long time, with everyone in the stands chanting "Champion!"

It has certainly been an exciting season for Liverpool.

Tickets to the Champions League semi-finals are just around the corner.

The bold statement made at the beginning of the season about winning seven championships is now gradually becoming a reality.

Liverpool fans were almost in disbelief.

The season is very busy, with the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals just finished.

Liverpool are about to face Southampton away in the 34th round of the league.

Southampton's relegation battle this season is extremely precarious. Therefore, they showed no signs of letting their guard down in this match, employing a tight defense to thwart Liverpool's attacks.

But such a tight defense proved extremely vulnerable against Liverpool's sunny side. In the 23rd minute, Suns breached Southampton's goal with a signature header.

After scoring the first goal, Liverpool completely took control of the game.

The second goal came in the 43rd minute of the match.

The goal scorer was Salah.

Sunlight headed the ball across the penalty area, and Salah broke into the box and scored with a low left-footed shot.

2-0. Liverpool secure the victory.

In the second half, Liverpool didn't pick up the pace; they kept the game very slow away from home, ultimately winning 2-0 against Southampton and continuing their pursuit of the Premier League title.

After this match, Liverpool will travel to Porto for an away game.

Since the score in the first leg had essentially ended the suspense, Klopp did not field his main players in this match.

Liverpool, fielding a rotated squad, lost 0-1 to Porto away from home.

With an aggregate score of 5-1, they advanced to the Champions League semi-finals.

Meanwhile, the other Champions League quarter-final matches also concluded with victories and defeats.

Ajax surprisingly eliminated Real Madrid to advance to the semi-finals.

Another team to reach the semi-finals was also a surprise: Tottenham Hotspur, led by Mauricio Pochettino.

Valverde's Barcelona also made it to the semi-finals.

Barcelona, ​​Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, and Ajax will face off in the semi-finals.

The draw for the semi-final matchups was quickly completed.

Tottenham and Ajax have joined forces.

Liverpool will face Barcelona.

The draw results have Tottenham fans very excited.

Although Lajax is a Champions League powerhouse, having won the Champions League four times.

However, Ajax, currently playing in the Dutch Eredivisie, is certainly no match for Tottenham in terms of squad strength.

Therefore, Tottenham fans are very confident that their team can easily defeat Ten Hag's Ajax.

Advance to the Champions League final.

However, the managers of all four teams remained quite cautious about the Champions League semi-finals. A reporter interviewed Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino, who believes Ajax is a very strong team and their elimination of Real Madrid was not a surprise. Ten Hag has done an excellent job at Ajax.

In an interview, Ten Hag said that Tottenham is a very strong opponent and they must be very careful when facing them.

The clash between Ajax and Tottenham was clearly not as exciting as the match between Barcelona and Liverpool.

Valverde highly praised Klopp's work at Liverpool.

In a media interview, he said: "Klopp has done an exciting job at Liverpool. He has turned Liverpool into a second-best team, perhaps only comparable to the legendary Barcelona team in history."

Klopp also believes Barcelona is a very strong opponent. Liverpool absolutely cannot underestimate them.

The semi-final is about to begin, but before that, Liverpool will play three more matches: two league games and an FA Cup semi-final against Crystal Palace.

On April 18th, Liverpool will face Cardiff City away in the 34th round of the league.

Despite playing at home, Cardiff City's strength is far inferior to Liverpool's, and they suffered a clean 0-2 defeat even at home.

Liverpool earned 89 points after this match.

They are 6 points ahead of Manchester City, who have 83 points.

Three days later, Liverpool will face Crystal Palace at Anfield Stadium.

Winning this match would allow Li Hu to make history once again, advancing to the FA Cup final with a rotated squad and a strong lineup.

Crystal Palace played very tenaciously in the match, but the Suns were almost unstoppable.

He scored in the 13th minute of the match, a long-range shot that took four minutes.

They then scored again in the 43rd minute, making the score 3-0.

In the second half, Sunshine scored two goals in a row, sealing the score at 5-0.

He scored four goals in the FA Cup semi-final.

Liverpool advance to the FA Cup final.

Their opponent is Manchester City, a team they are very familiar with.

The main theme of this Premier League season is the rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester City.

However, on almost every front, Manchester City was dominated by Liverpool.

After this FA Cup semi-final match.

4 month 27 day.

Round 36 of the league.

Liverpool thrashed Huddersfield 5-0 at home, bringing them within one step of the Premier League title.

Liverpool have 92 points in the league standings.

They also have a significant lead over Manchester City in goal difference.

In the last two league matches, Liverpool can only hope to avoid a crushing defeat by more than ten goals in each game.

They have no chance of losing the Premier League title.

Of course, in theory, Manchester City still has a chance to catch up.

But Liverpool just needs to get a point in their next league match against Newcastle United away from home.

They can then secure the Premier League title this season.

Before that, they first faced a Champions League semi-final match.

Liverpool will host Barcelona. Liverpool have essentially secured the Premier League title and have advanced to the FA Cup final.

If they win these two titles, they will have won their fifth and sixth championship trophies this season.

The last and most important trophy is undoubtedly the Champions League.

The most crucial question is whether they can overcome the challenge of Barcelona.

In the view of most media outlets and fans.

Among the Champions League semi-finalists, Barcelona and Liverpool are the strongest.

Either of these two teams will advance to the final and face their opponent, whether it's Tottenham or Ajax.

Their strength will surpass that of their opponents.

Its foundation is also much stronger than that of its competitors.

In a match of the Champions League final, besides the teams' strength on paper, the team's depth and experience can sometimes be a key factor in determining the outcome.

Both Barcelona and Liverpool are second to none in terms of Champions League experience.

Tottenham have gone without a title for many years. Ajax's era of Champions League dominance is long gone.

The team that reaches the final between Barcelona and Liverpool will win the championship.

This makes the semi-final match even more important.

A large crowd had already gathered around Anfield Stadium at dusk.

The Champions League matches are different from the Premier League matches. Most Premier League matches are scheduled to kick off on weekend afternoons, which is a tradition of the English football league for more than 100 years. In the beginning, there were no stadium floodlighting systems and no prime-time television broadcasts, so playing in the evening was simply impossible. Therefore, the afternoon became the best time slot.

Even now, with television broadcasts, the Premier League follows this tradition, with only a small number of matches scheduled for the evening.

Even the key battles are all fought in the afternoon.

Because English fans have long been accustomed to watching matches in the afternoon.

Since you're already used to it, you might as well not change it.

The Champions League is a relatively new competition, and its influence only expanded with the advent of television broadcasting.

They have no traditions to follow; satisfying the demands of television broadcasters and sponsors is their primary concern.

For television broadcasts, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. is prime time.

The Champions League matches will naturally be scheduled within this timeframe, which will increase the exposure of advertising sponsors and allow them to pay higher sponsorship fees to UEFA.

All are happy.

Today is a Champions League match day, so the match starts at 7:45 PM.

You can have dinner at home or around the stadium before coming to the stadium to watch the game.

But at this point, who would be interested in eating?

Even if they ate, it was just to fill their stomachs; they finished quickly and rushed to the stadium.

The game hadn't started yet, and the stadium wasn't open, so everyone was in no hurry. They just waited outside the stadium, singing and dancing.

Fans have their own ways of entertaining themselves.

Liverpool fans still made up the vast majority; they were everywhere.

There are only three thousand Barcelona fans, but they are gathered together and appear very united—but there's nothing they can do about it, given England's notorious football hooligans and the country's poor security in recent years.

Even Premier League players are frequently the target of home invasion robberies.

Let alone ordinary fans.

They came from Barcelona, ​​and if they were traveling alone, they might have been robbed of all their cash, cell phones, cameras, and other valuables before they even reached Anfield.

This is not a joke.

That's just how bad the security situation is in England right now.

In addition, everyone knows the notorious reputation of English football hooligans, so for safety reasons, they had to stick together to avoid being smashed over with bottles in the alley.

The square outside Anfield Stadium now presents such a clearly defined scene.

Liverpool fans, dressed in red jerseys, occupied the vast majority of the space.

Meanwhile, Barcelona fans were wearing green Barcelona away jerseys.

In a vast red ocean, it's like a small boat, which could be submerged at any moment.

Not only that, but Liverpool fans who were closer to them continued to intimidate and threaten them, making all sorts of ferocious expressions at them, giving them the middle finger, and some even chanting "Real Madrid! Real Madrid!" to provoke the Barcelona fans.

Liverpool police separated the clearly intoxicated Liverpool fans from the 3,000 Barcelona fans.

Despite being under police protection, Barcelona fans remained somewhat worried – they feared that some of the police officers were Liverpool fans' moles, and if they were to slip through, they would be like lambs to the slaughter.
Out of concern for this situation, Barcelona fans remained relatively rational despite being surrounded and provoked by Liverpool fans. They did not rush over or engage in verbal sparring with the Liverpool fans through a human wall of police.

However, each of them cursed those damn Liverpool fans seventy-two times in their hearts.

Just you wait and see, you damn British bastards!
You can still laugh now, but wait until the competition starts, then you'll have your turn to cry!
We, Barcelona, ​​are invincible!

When the team buses arrived one after the other, the two teams received drastically different treatment.

Liverpool's team bus arrived first and was greeted with cheers from the fans in the stadium.

The deafening roar of the Liverpool fans made the area their domain.

Their shouts were so loud that even when Barcelona fans were talking face-to-face, they couldn't hear what the other was saying.

They showed Barcelona fans what "home advantage" really means.

Later, when the Barcelona team bus arrived, a deafening chorus of boos erupted outside Anfield Stadium.

The boos were so loud that even the Barcelona fans who had traveled with the team all over the world were alarmed – they had never encountered anything like it before.

They hadn't seen anything like this even outside Real Madrid's home stadium, the Bernabéu.

Many Barcelona fans looked at each other, and in each other's eyes they saw something... a fear they were unwilling to admit!
The Barcelona players, sitting on the bus, also endured the harsh boos.

The boos continued to linger even after they entered the designated lane—not because the fans were still booing, but because the boos gradually stopped as their bus drove away from the square.

This was entirely an illusion created by the terrifying hissing they had heard earlier, making them feel as if the hissing was still ringing in their ears.

These Liverpool fans really made a lasting impression!

This is what Liverpool fans can do for their team.

Before the match even begins, give the opponent a taste of their power and severely dampen their spirits!
"Damn it! Those damn Liverpool guys!"

Pique cursed viciously.

He used to play for Manchester United.

He has stated more than once that, apart from Barcelona, ​​his favorite team is Manchester United.

As a Manchester United player.

How could they possibly give Liverpool a friendly look?

(End of this chapter)