This season more than most, the Champions League has produced some curious results.
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Roma coach Eusebio Di Francesco insists he has not sought the advice of Mohamed Salah’s former team-mates at the Serie A club on how to stop the Egypt global but he would be advised to come up with a plan.
Former Leicester star Savage believes Real Madrid are the frontrunners to win the Champions League. In an offseason when the Premier League spent record sums and Neymar would soon go on to change the sport’s financial landscape by joining Paris Saint-Germain for 222 million euros, Salah’s transfer wasn’t unnoticed but was hardly agenda-setting.
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Real: Nacho is only the absentee for Real. The overcoming of Barcelona in the last-eight stage that truly endorsed Di Francesco’s reputation as a bold, clear-sighted tactician, with the authority to convince his players they could defy the most daunting odds. Can the atmosphere inside the stadium be better than v City?
As Liverpool passed each test with flying colours a sense of the club returning to the big time has grown. His qualities are very clear.
“He’s just showing what he can produce if you give him an opportunity to play”. We don’t need to throw whatever at the bus of the opposing team.
Roma needed three goals without reply to beat Barcelona and got them.
They have some great players performing to their 100 percent potential this year. We did things wrong earlier in the competition against Sevilla, going from 3-0 up to 3-3. I didn’t think I’d be in the first five. “We have to stay focused because it’s a Champions League semi-final and we’re defending our title”.
Winning the Champions League would be unbelievable for the city, the fans, the fans around the world. It’s a huge moment.
Liverpool won two European Cups in the Stadio Olimpico – first in 1977 against Borussia Munchengladbach and their fourth seven years later – and Klopp admitted he planned to re-watch those performances.
Salah was crowned the PFA Player of the Year on Sunday amid a stunning season that has seen him score 31 Premier League goals.
“We defend as a team”. In front of goal, he’s like a machine.
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“Definitely, I am 100% sure that we can do it even better next season”, he said. It’s a different competition, it’s special.
