As good as futile to back the game started, the FC Liverpool in the semi-finals of the Champions League and reached the final. Favorite FC Barcelona and Star Lionel Messi will experience a bitter Déjà-vu.
Incredibly, unbelievably, inexplicably a football game as the return leg in the Champions League semi-final between FC Liverpool and FC Barcelona rarely seen. Because, actually, was eaten after the 0:3 first leg-Broke for coach Jürgen Klopp, and Liverpool of the cheese. No Chance to turn the thing against Barcelona, certainly not, with Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah, two-thirds of the successful storm trio because of injuries had to fit.
Twice Origi, twice Wijnaldum
But what happened then, in the story of the most incredible football comebacks. Twice-crosslinked Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum a and Messi and co. threw with a deserved 4:0 victory in the competition. “Twelfth man” in the red Jersey is the backdrop to Anfield, according to the coach-Guru José Mourinho “only stadium in that can score goals was once again”. At the latest after Wijnaldums double blow shortly after the break, the earth shook in Liverpool, and in the Arena, you will not mind his own word.
Ten minutes after coming on as a substitute Georginio Wijnaldum (left) had met twice already
The individual class of the players of FC Barcelona has been overwhelmed by the force and determination of Liverpool. The longer the game lasted, the less managed the Catalans. Only in the half hour after early in the LFC-guide by Origi, they broadcast something like sovereignty and control. After the break, nothing more. The bottom of the valley was in the 79. Minute, as Trent Alexander-Arnold foolish ones of the newly crowned Spanish champion with a quickly-taken corner, and Origi is the ecstasy Level is turned up at Anfield with his goal to 4:0 to Bayern again two to three levels higher. “This is just incredible! It is difficult to describe,” said the striker who played last season for Wolfsburg. “The Fans have played a big role. I will dream of my goals for a long time.”
Even Klopp was caught off guard by the unusual corners of the variant of his players: “That was an idea from Trent Alexander-Arnold, 20 years old. What a guy! The idea originated in the Moment,” said Klopp in an Interview with Sky and laughed when Watching the replay of the 4:0 almost broken. “This is incredible. I got out still talking and just see fly a Ball into the goal. I had to ask, who made the goal.”
Bitter Déjà-vu for Barça, a third Chance for Klopp
The final whistle: boundless joy in the work of Jürgen Klopp
More nightmares would plague the Catalans after this game. After the final whistle, they crept like beaten dogs, the cheering and the noise in the cabin. As in the previous season, you need to blame yourself, to have a safe success. At the time, the final was in the quarter after a 0:3 in the return match against AS Roma final, although Barça had won the first leg clearly with 4:1 and, in fact, no more Worries had to do. Now, the second K. o., which was not actually possible at Anfield. In gate of the opponent on both occasions the Brazilians Alisson Becker, who joined last summer from Rome to Liverpool, stand by the way.
How rare such a “miracle” happens, it shows the fact that Liverpool is only the fourth team, which can rotate in the Champions League a Three-goal deficit after the first leg. “My team had to Barcelona the feeling that something is in there,” said Klopp, who had stacked before the return game in the press conference is still deep. “I told them before the game: Normally it is impossible, but you have the Chance.”
Klopp for the third Time in his coaching career in the final of the Premier class. In 2013, he lost with Borussia Dortmund against FC Bayern. Last year he was with the Reds against Real Madrid. He is allowed to lift in the third attempt, now, finally, the coveted Henkelpott in the height? Just like his team against Barcelona untwisted, it is not so unlikely, even if in the stadium of Atletico Madrid, the “twelfth man” may not be quite as loud as at home in Anfield.
“The skin you Yes,” said Klopp after the game, still a little taken by what you just Experienced. “Goose bumps! This is very, very special, and I am very grateful that I was allowed to be there.”
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupA lesson on the Portuguese coast
The Swiss third division team FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, one of the first class 60s. Only the duel in the UEFA Cup winners ‘ Cup 1961/62 against the Portuguese club Leixões SC is a dark Chapter. After a 6:2 at home, a lesson followed in the return game: With 5:0 Leixões and FC-Keeper Leo Eichmann won (on the right, here in a game against FC Zürich) was powerless.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupAs the “Betze”, a fortress was
Today, kicks in the Palatinate, only second-rate. This was in the ‘ 80s, different. In March 1982 the club against Real Madrid turned the tables in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals. After a 1:3 in Madrid, the “Red devils customized” the Royal Ulli Stielike (3.v.l.) with 5:0. Madrid saw Red three times, and in the stands was sung: “the Spaniards, the swimwear!”
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupKing countered Lich
Not only in Barcelona, also in Madrid, it should be his cause never to sure: A December day in 1985: Borussia Mönchengladbach travels with a sensational 5:1 first-leg victory to be Real and will be eliminated in the third round of the UEFA Cup in 1985/86, but still. Because both Valdano, as well as Santillana achieve a double-pack, and Real Madrid bring exactly the required result: 4:0.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupThe “miracle of the Grotenburg”
Uerdingen? Never heard of it? Bayer 05 Uerdingen (after the withdrawal of the sponsor Bayer today, KFC Uerdingen) was a Cup team in the 80s and 90s and repeated in 1985, even the DFB. In the European Cup winners ‘ Cup records in 1986 with Dynamo Dresden 0:2, shot with 7:3 in the return game in the Grotenburg arena to the semi-finals. Rudi Bommer (photo) was a key player.
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The greatest Comebacks in European Cup“Euro-Eddy” and the big Coup
The Karlsruher SC lives by the splendor of bygone days. Especially fond of you remembers the night of the 2. November 1993: After a clear 1:3-Broke the favorite FC Valencia, the KSC seemed already sealed. However, the Team of cult-coach Winnie Schäfer overran the Spaniards in the return game formally. Above all, Edgar “Euro-Eddy” Schmidt, who met four times and the 7:0 the hero was.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupBremer Torrausch
32.000 spectators had addressed the majority of the after a played an hour in the Champions League match Werder Bremen against RSC Anderlecht in thought, probably already with the early way home. Because Werder was 0:3. Then the SVW turned and overran the Belgians: 5:3 it was said at the end, also thanks to the outstanding new founder Wynton Rufer, who scored two goals and one prepared.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupThe Trauma of the FC Bayern
The players of the FC Bayern no longer understood the world football: In the Champions League final in may 1999, in Barcelona, led the Munich against Manchester United after 90 minutes with 1:0 and had to actually survive with only the stoppage time. But then the Two corners, two goals, United win 2:1. “It was a bitter pill to swallow,” said Mario Basler, the Bavarian sense of the world aptly.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupThe red resurrection
Similar to bad as the Bayern fared in may 2005, AC Milan: 3:0 led the Italians in the final in Istanbul against Liverpool, which was defenseless and already clinically dead. But then, the “Reds offset” within 15 minutes. In the penalty shoot-out which Liverpool won with 3:2, the German Dietmar Hamann hit his penalty. The Rest was cheering and Party.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupDavid killed Goliath
It’s the classic David-versus-Goliath story, and it ends as it must end: The great AC Milan in the first leg with the small Spanish Deportivo de La Coruña short process: 4:1. But in the return leg of the CL quarter-final in 2003/04, the Norspanier, fight clock rings, Japanese disciplined, the Italian giants with 4:0 down and are sensational.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupFour minutes, turning everything
In Numbers, this race to catch up is not particularly impressive: Borussia Dortmund played in the Champions League quarter-final at FC Malaga 0:0. In the rear is a 3:2 game. But what In the injury time Malaga led with 2:1. Four minutes and two BVB goals later, a jubilee-storm raged through the Dortmund stadium. And winning goalscorer Felipe Santana (l.) was no longer to hold.
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more of The greatest Comebacks in European CupWritten off live longer
The FC Barcelona has already been buried. After the 0:4 Paris Saint Germain in the first knockout round, the conclusion seemed to be already in the Champions League for the Star-Ensemble from Catalonia. However, thanks to a lightning start to the FCB soon leads 3:0. Then the shock: a goal by Cavani. In the closing minutes with three goals to Barcelona’s success actually writes with his 6:1-success story.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupThe wonders of Rome
Back to Barca: That seemed to be certain Champions League semi-final slipping away from FC Barcelona to a 4-1 first-leg victory in their own stadium when the Underdog AS Rom to not for possible held way: The all-star ensemble cast of Lionel Messi in the Italian capital early with 0:1 and loses with 0:3 coach Ernesto Valverde can’t believe his fate.
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The greatest Comebacks in European CupBarca-Drama – the third
Barca-the tragedy for the third Time in a row, the worse the end for Spain’s master of the playful, when the “miracle of Anfield” as in the previous year a Three-goal lead. This Time against Liverpool even without a counter hit from the first leg at the Camp Nou. But that is not possible to make Origi and Wijnaldum (photo) with two goals – a game for the history books.