Villarreal shockingly weak, of course it was also due to Liverpool, who played very well in the second half, nice and quick passes forward, Villarreal could hardly keep up and wobbled frequently.
2:0 is a good result but slightly disappointed that there weren’t 3-4 goals, it would have been possible with all the chances.
I think they will play completely differently in the home game, but I’m pretty relaxed about that after the game, now focus on prem again.
You can’t always grow beyond yourself. Villareal gave everything but it wasn’t enough.
I had fun and calculated some numbers:
Liverpool spent £531.58m (£35.44m per player) on the 15 players used today.
Villareal spent 110.25m (6.89m per player) on the 16 players who played today.
You can see that a lot would have had to come together for a Villareal victory. Everything has to run perfectly.
In the end, money does score goals. And a lot of money, even more.
Wouldn’t it have been more amusing to show this statistic after the victories against Bayern and Juventus.
Or after Bayern’s defeat in the cup, for example.
Of course, Liverpool is one of the financially strong top 10 in the world, but together with Bayern, it is also the only two of this squad that more or less only spend the money that they earn.
Better coach, better goalkeeper, better individual players, more money, more experience, more more.
As that has Liverpool compared to Villareal.
Juve and Bayern also had everything, only with Liverpool you could see that every second of the game yesterday.
If you ask yourself honestly, would you have brought in the players that Liverpool brought in?
Who was van Dijk when he joined Liverpool?
Would you have spent the 80 million on him too?
Jota, Salah, Mané, Alisson, Fabinho, Firmino, Robertson, Matip, Tsimikas, …
I’m pretty sure that very few would have chosen these players for the same money.
I didn’t want Konaté with us…I wanted Upamecano. Klopp, Edwards and Co. have shown me once again how little I know.
To the game:
Deserved victory with almost perfect defensive performance (Thiago, Fabinho, IV’s).
Emery and Villareal will give it their all again in the second leg and Liverpool should and will be warned.