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Liverpool won a major Champions League game, but the main story for the Reds was Kylian Mbappé and those very specific ‘omens’.
On for the Kyl
What to do when by far the biggest development of Tuesday night’s Champions League matches was not tied to the Premier League or a transfer story?
the Daily Mirror website has the answer:
KING KYLIAN! Mbappé makes a statement on the future of PSG amid transfer interest from Liverpool and Real Madrid after scoring a hat-trick for Barcelona ‘
Perfect. The word ‘Liverpool’ is mentioned literally once, and Mbappé’s ‘statement on the future of PSG’ is literally that “it would be stupid to decide my future in one game.
Not as stupid as it would be to draw Liverpool and Real Madrid into a story about a PSG striker who scored a hat-trick against Barcelona and then told the media that he is “happy” at his current club.
Blind update
the Echo of Liverpool follow an equally predictable route. They cover a club and mined those Mbappé clicks Long ago. But at lunchtime the day after the Reds won the first leg of a Champions League knockout game, should this be the headline at the top of their website?
‘Liverpool news and transfers LIVE: update from Kylian Mbappé, statement from Jurgen Klopp, most recent Virgil van Dijk’
You won a game! A very important one! Never mind the damn “Kylian Mbappé update” from him … he still hasn’t joined.
Real them in
The thing is, Liverpool did very well against Leipzig on Tuesday, reducing the need to do everything else about them as well. They were very professional. Relentless. David Maddock from Daily mirror he was undoubtedly impressed.
“Salah inspired a remarkable Champions League victory, with a devastating performance that reduced Leipzig’s defense to a ruined and trembling ruin.”
A ‘remarkable win in the Champions League’? It was really great, but it seems a bit over the top. It wasn’t even the most notable victory of the night in the Champions League. And that ‘devastating performance’ required two relatively unforced errors for Liverpool to establish a two-goal lead.
That ‘shocking and ruined clash’ by the Leipzig defense did not allow a single shot after Sadio Mane’s goal shortly before the hour. Two mistakes in five minutes of the second half is not a shaky, ruined mess.
Leipzig had 12 shots to Liverpool’s ten, but Maddock’s only mention of the German team’s attack is that Alisson made “a good save”. Who is not clear or when.
He writes 581 words without even referring to Dani Olmo hitting the post, Christopher Nkunku almost scored early in the second half and Hwang Hee-chan came very close to making it 2-1 at the end. All in the name of pretending that ‘all of a sudden, they looked like real Liverpool again’ when it was much better than the last few months but a far cry from the ‘real Liverpool’ of yesteryear.
It’s a bit strange.
The Omen
He adds:
There were also signs of triumph in the past, especially in the deadly impact of his line of attack. On the last two occasions he has faced German rivals at this stage, he went on to lift the trophy. And those are omens to hold on to, with this quality at first. ”
Why is everyone else competing this year? Don’t you know what happens when Liverpool face German teams in the knockout stages of the Champions League? It doesn’t matter that it has literally only happened twice before because that’s a very particular set of circumstances that precludes them from losing to Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 quarter-finals, or beating Augsburg and Dortmund in the last 32 and quarter-finals of Europe. Liga in 2016 before losing in the final.
Mbappé is good and all, but Mediawatch isn’t sure it can cope with ‘omens’ as powerful and incredibly specific as that.
Cherry turns around
Martin Samuel from Daily mail at least he remembers Olmo, Nkunku and Hwang’s chances for Leipzig in his match report. But he’s quite scorning last season’s semi-finalists, who are suddenly ‘lacking the care necessary to progress at this stage of the tournament. ‘
He writes that “considerably better teams remain in the competition”, while “if Jurgen Klopp could have chosen an opponent, it could well have been this one.”
He is second in the Bundesliga, defeating PSG in November and drawing Bayern Munich 3-3 at the Allianz Arena in December. They are pretty good. Two costly mistakes in an otherwise closed game doesn’t make them garbage.
Klopp was able to note “how dominant they can be in football, how overwhelming they can be in a game from a physical point of view” after the game. It doesn’t sound like an opponent I would have chosen.
Echo chamber
But going back to Echo of Liverpool, because they have the biggest scoop of all of Budapest.
‘What Jurgen Klopp did in the band after Mohamed Salah’s goal in Liverpool’
Buckle up, folks. You are genuinely never I will believe this …
“The relief was tangible on Klopp’s touchline as he celebrated with a trademark fist pump.”
The manager celebrates the player’s goal goal. This means more.
Low rez
Then Monday Y Tuesday breaking newsHere is Wednesday’s third installment of the exciting saga that is taking over the world of football. But mainly The Sun Website:
‘Riyad Mahrez’s Covidiot Wife Disobeys Mask Rules at Sainsbury’s After Blockade Violation’
At least they don’t pretend it’s the biggest story of the day. He is second behind the revelation that Kylian Mbappé is better at 22 than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Christian belief
But the greatest credit of all goes to him Daily star for pretending Chelsea are about to sell one of their many thousands of forwards.
“Thomas Tuchel’s comments hint at the sale of one of Chelsea’s renowned attackers,” reads the headline of a story in which Tuchel’s only quote is that “it was a difficult decision” not to start Christian Pulisic against Newcastle .
“It deserves to start, it deserves to enter,” he added. And from there we are supposed to deduce that “I may need to download at least one” of Hakim Ziyech’s Pulisic in the summer. It really is the only solution.
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