The Villarreal faces this Tuesday against the Liverpool the capital challenge of overcoming a 2-0 first-leg deficit at Anfield Road to reach a Champions League final for the first time in its history, with the encouragement of having been able to account in the round of 16 and quarter-finals for the almighty Juventus and Bayern Munich.
The quest you must perform now to get a 3-0 or resolve the pass on penalties It has nothing to do with the way in which he surpassed his two previous rivals, since he has never been in such a clear disadvantage as he is now. Unai Emery’s team will need to complete one of the best games in its history and qualifying would also mean one of the greatest milestones in history of the club for which he has the support of the fans that will fill the stadium to bursting.
For this meeting they will be the injured Alberto Moreno and Yeremy Pino are released and, almost certainly Arnaut Danjuma, who has not trained this Monday, while Francis Coquelin and Gerard Moreno yes they haveso they can be against the English team.
With this, the possible eleven would be formed by Gero Rulli as goalkeeper, with a defense made up of Juan Foyth, Raúl Albiol, Pau Torres and Pervis Estupiñán, a rearguard that becomes the only line in which Emery has no doubts. For the center of the field, Étienne Capoue and Dani Parejo will be as pivots along with Francis Coquelin or Samu Chukwueze and Gio Lo Celso. Gerard Moreno and Boulayé Dia are expected to play in attack.
Liverpool, meanwhile, travels with a more than comfortable 2-0 in their favor and after not have lost this season by two or more goals against. Moreover, he has barely yielded three games this season, all of them by the minimum and several months have passed since the last one, in the second leg of the round of 16 against Inter Milan.
The inertia with which they have reached this end of the season has given them a scent of untouchability that places them as the fittest team on the continent, capable of neutralizing a twelve-point deficit in the Premier, reaching two cup finals and getting into their third Champions League semifinals of the Jürgen Klopp era, one round in the who have not yet fallen with the German coach.
The weekend’s commitment (0-1 against Newcastle United) was not easy, but it allowed Klopp rotate some of the headlines in the Champions League, like Mohamed Salah, who only played twenty minutes, just like Fabinho, and something more than Thiago, who came out ten minutes from the end, while Trent Alexander-Arnold rested completely. Klopp can afford to show the same team again as in the first leg and that it has hardly suffered wear and tear over the weekend despite the intense fight for the Premier.
Liverpool have played thirteen away games in 2022, with a balance of eleven wins and only two draws. His level of form is at the height of the best Liverpool in history and the final tenth of the Champions it’s just one step awaywith a more than comfortable advantage.
The match will be played in a packed stadium in which the presence of 21,000 fans of the Castellón team and up to 3,000 of the English team is expected.
Likely lineups
Villarreal: Rulli, Foyth, Albiol, Pau Torres, Estupiñán, Capoue, Parejo, Coquelin or Chukwueze, Lo Celso, Gerard Moreno and Dia.
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konaté, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Fabinho, Thiago, Salah, Mané y Díaz.
Referee: Danny Makkelie (Dutch)
WAS: Paul van Boekel (Dutch)
Estadio: The ceramic
Hour: 21:00
