The Liverpool will be in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, but much less needed his best version to achieve it. Got rid of Leipzig more easily than expected. Not a single goal was able to achieve the German team in more than 180 minutes of elimination in which there was no glimpse of the bad moment that the team of Klopp on the Premier League. Disappointed Julian Nagelsmann, a technician who has more than half a crush Europe and you will surely enjoy a very successful career. But this time he was not up to the task.
In the first leg, Leipzig was reproached for lacking the courage and daring that have made them one of the most colorful teams on the old continent. And on the return, that he did not have the competitive ground to put fear in the body of the Liverpool by means of a whirlwind outlet.
He did not lack dynamism in terms of tactics when Leipzig, because that is a hallmark that cannot be avoided by a team built by Naglesmann, but failed to find the fluidity necessary for the system to be harmful to the Liverpool.
In addition, the interventionism of Nagelsmann When trying to change the course of the game, it was not very beneficial either. Just a couple of sparks of Hwang in the second act of the return they suggested that the fuse could be lit.
The Liverpool, for his part, he limited himself to not being wrong. Eliminatory would be yours. Taking advantage of the opponent's mistakes in the first leg and not being the protagonist of them in the second leg. They complied with note Nathaniel Phillips Y Ozan kabak, members of the duo of centrals that went unnoticed with the positive connotation that this has. Much had to do with how well he worked ahead of them Fabinho, one of the best in the world in game reading.
In short, he felt like a fish in water Liverpool of Klopp and drowned in himself the Leipzig of Nagelsmann. Both the young German coach and his pupils will have time to get honorable enrollments, but it should not be ignored for this reason that his performance at this junction was not approved.