LEIPZIG 0-LIVERPOOL 2 | Liverpool resurrects in Budapest

The Champions healed Liverpool's wounds in the Premier. He resurrected the team led by Klopp in the Hungarian capital with a 0-2 against a self-conscious RB Leipzig, which was not able to capture the level it had been offering in the Bundesliga on the European stage. Two serious imbalances in the German defense led Liverpool to tip a tie in their favor which will be decided at Anfield and in which the team led by Nagelsmann will have to take out all its power if it wants to give a twist to a result whose main culprit was Leipzig itself and, above all, its defense.

Caution was noted from the beginning. Both sides. In the English corner for the moment more than complicated that happens at the level of results and, in the German corner, for the simple fact of facing a whole Liverpool. Keep intimidating the name. Even so, both teams tried to impose their game from the beginning and pulled the verticality that defines them. Despite this, those who were closest to breaking the balance in the first half it was the German Spanish. Dani Olmo crashed headlong into an Angeliño center to the stick that walked across Alisson's goal line.

Of course, Liverpool also had theirs before the passivity of Upamecano and Mukiele in the Saxon rear, but Salah and Mané were not fine. Until the Leipzig defense stopped working. Two blunders by Sabitzer and Upamecano, brand new signing of Bayern, allowed Salah and Mané to put a foot and a half in the quarters of the highest continental competition. Liverpool landed injured in Budapest, but came out strengthened and proving that they are still that lethal team that conquered Europe two years ago. Although they will have to face a somewhat more daring Leipzig in the lap. There is no other.

Klopp: “Many people expected us to fall again”

Liverpool manager, the German Jurgen Klopp, was happy about the victory against RB Leipzig in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 and He stressed that, after their losing streak this season, “many people expected” that they would “fall” again.

“It was the game we wanted, the one we needed. Leipzig can be a real monster, they overwhelm the teams, they are very physical and tonight we controlled it exceptionally. We played a very good game and got the result we deserved“Klopp told BT Sport after the game.

“We defended very well and had a good recovery. It was a difficult game with only two days since the last. It's only the first leg, we know, but a lot of people hoped that we would fall again“He said.” For two years we were very good and this year we have problems, it's fine. A lot of people expected us to slip again, but the boys didn't, “he insisted. -EFE