Liverpool performance this season is indeed extraordinary, even though they have a busy schedule in the domestic and European leagues but they can still maintain their performance well so far, even though they had difficulties in breaking into Villareal goal in the first half but the hard work done by Liverpool players managed to end sweetly with a 2-0 win at the end of the match, 2-0 capital seems to have been enough capital for liverpool to set one foot in the final and I think it will be difficult for villareal to make a comeback in the second leg later even though they play at home.
I think so too. 2 goals difference is pretty much impossible to catch up for Villareal. Odds for qualification are Villareal 13.0 and Liverpool 1.02, so this is like a 95% chance for Liverpool's qualification by the bookmakers.
Real Madrid vs ManCity is going to be more interesting. Here ManCity is only 1 goal ahead. Odds for qualification are Madrid 4.3 and ManCity 1.18, which is more like 80-20. This will be the more exciting game in the 2nd leg imho and I am looking forward to it.
Seeing these numbers, one clearly says that Real Madrid has the ideal conditions to win, since they will play at home, and apart from that they did not do so badly as visitors, but there is something that drowns those hopes, and before the players it is Pep Guardiola , Pep Guardiola always has the necessary experience to spoil the party anywhere, even in the first leg he was shown a yellow card, it is rare to see that this coach shows his emotions so much, he is usually very calm, and for me in Regarding the last game, it will be the final, because clearly Pep will not come out to surrender, they will come out with everything and leave Real Madrid on the field with a possible failure of not going to the final.
We had a really unforgettable match yesterday. I think that even Liverpool weren't expecting to start the match like that despite Emery's words before the match. He said that it was not going to be easy for Liverpool as it was in Anfield. And by their amazing first half performance, I believe that Liverpool got his point there. After I saw that Villarreal ended the half 2-0 ahead, my interest in the match increased a lot. But in the second half, Liverpool made them remember who is the boss again and made an incredible comeback. But even though they won by 3-2, I really appreciate Villarreal's high effort in this round.
In that match I really liked how the Colombian played, in fact he was named the best player of the match, that player was connected with everything, with the team, with the goal, with everything, really Villareal did everything to win but in Actually they couldn't, I don't know if it was lack of luck or lack of that "luck" that every champion team has.