"Spurs" against Klopp

In the final of the Tottenham Champions League, he will clash in Madrid with Liverpool

The current draw of the main club tournament in Europe will be remembered for the fans for a long time. There were more than enough real sensations. CSKA youth twice punished the star “Real”, the boring “Manchester United” again did not allow to ascend to the football throne Sheikham from PSG. The enthusiastic Ajax walked a rink on Real Madrid at Bernabeu and drove Juventus with Cristiano Ronaldo into a trap. The German grads sprinkled, missed the opportunity to play athletico in the home finale with the crazy Diego Simeone. And on Saturday, those who left the main favorites of the 2018/2019-Manchester City and Barcelona will be released on the Vanda Metropolitano lawn.

To joy, presumably, Gary Lineker. Let me remind you that the former forward of the England team once said: "22 people play football, and the Germans always win." However, Bavaria and Borussia this time in the 1/8 finals were not famous for the current participants in the decisive battle - Liverpool and Tottenham. After 11 years, a purely English rendezvous will repeat. Then, in 2008, the iron “pensioner” John Terry, unable to resist the wet lawn of “Luzhnikov”, did not score the decisive penalty to “Devil” Edwin Van der Sarah, and forced Roman Abramovich to bury in his bed. On Wednesday, by the way, Roman Arkadievich shone, because his Chelsea defeated the Arsenal (4: 1) in the final of the Europa League, which, like his sworn opponent Tottenham, had never raised a prestigious trophy over his head.

The best achievement of Tottenham was the semifinals with Benfica in the distant 1961. And the same year their last championship was dated. In the film “Laying on the bottom in Bruges” there was a great joke: “I was not shit, but I didn’t reach the tops. Like Tottenham. In short, behind the club, which, starting in 1984, took only the Cup of the English League, the offensive nickname “Eternal Loser” was fixed on the foggy Albion. However, in this draw, the wards of Maurisio Pochitino, who was going to the title, the coach of the year, as if they had sold the soul to the devil: the luck throughout the tournament was accompanied by a fantastic one. Londoners left the group miraculously, equalizing the score to the Kampa Nou 5 minutes before the final whistle. In the battle with Mansiti, the “spurs” helped the notorious Var, thanks to which the decisive ball of Rahim Sterling was canceled in the added time. The Ayaksu “Tottenham” by the 55th minute of the return match was inferior in the amount of two meetings 0: 3, but Lucas Moura managed to break through the defense of the Dutch three times, scoring a winning goal in the last seconds! "No! Nothing! Similar! Football, ”wrote after the match in Amsterdam the same Gary Lineker on his Twitter.

Liverpool got to Madrid, in fact, with one, but a large Catalan adventure. But unlike the capital's upholsters, the owners of the legendary Enfield, which were breaking through to the finals for the ninth time, were not particularly successful this season. The Jurgen Klopp team suffered only one defeat in 38 matches in the internal championship, missed only 22 goals, scored 97 points and missed gold from her hands, which she hunted for 30 years, lagging behind the “Mansiti” Joseti Gvariola by only one point. However, the Liverpool coach said that the Champions League is more important for him, because he can still win it. By the way, the holder of the five great cups lost his two superfinals: in 2007-“Milan (1: 2), and last year-“ Real ”(1: 3).

As for full -time confrontations in the Premier League, there is a clear advantage on the side of the “Reds”, which over the past seven years only once allowed the fans of the “spurs”. The only victory of Liverpool ended the only Euro-selection (in the semifinals of the UEFA-72 Cup, the Mersesidians passed the Londoners at the expense of the guest goal).

It is “Liverpool” that pragmatic bookmakers consider the inconvenient favorite of the upcoming English meeting. A curious fact: during the judges of the Slovenian arbitrator Damir Skomina, who was appointed to serve the meeting, the “red” lost four times out of five. But Tottenham and his coach Pochettino, statistics and layouts do not care at all: “Are we outsiders? Yes, we just live a marvelous dream: no one was waiting for us, and we are in Madrid. ”