Liverpool take on the visitors AS Roma at “Anfield” in the first-leg clash of the UEFA Champions League semi-final. The game will be played in Liverpool on Tuesday, April 24th.
Liverpool show rather confident play in this season. At the moment Jurgen Klopp’s side is sitting on the third position in the English Premier League standings, being three points ahead the fourth place. The German head-coach has made a great job as the team scores many magnificent goals which make fall in love all football fans with “The Reds”. Besides, “The Merseysiders” stay in a superb shape now, having gained four victories and two draws against Everton and West Bromwich in six recent fights. As for the UEFA Champions League, the Liverpool’s road to the semi-finals was more comfortable in oppose to their opponent’s one. The team confidently promoted from quite easy Group E, having earned the first place there in a rivalry against Spartak Moscow, Maribor and Sevilla. On the 1/8 final stage, “The Reds” had thrashed FC Porto in the first-leg battle and then played on lose in the reverse fixture. However, in the quarter-final Liverpool had to face Manchester City which left them miserable chances for further success. Nevertheless, Jurgen Klopp’s team managed to beat “The Citizens” with 5:1 aggregated score, having shown awesome football.
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In their turn, AS Roma look rather unsustainable in this season and demonstrate quite unconvincing results at this moment. “I Lupi” have got only three triumphs (including 3:0 trashing victory over Barcelona in Rome), two defeats and single draw against Lazio in “Derby della Capitale” in six latest tackles. It should be noted that the Romans’ pace to the UEFA Champions League semi-final was not very comfortable. On the 1/8 final stage the club had to compete against Shakhtar Donetsk. “Hirnyky” had deserved a confident 2:1 win over AS Roma in the first-leg game played in Ukraine and it looked like “I Lupi” would leave the tournament on that stage, however, the Romans laboured 1:0 victory in face of their supporters and qualified to the quarter-finals. And in the next round Eusebio Di Francesco’s side made a true miracle, having covered 1:4 away failure agaisnt Barcelona with 3:0 home triumph . Thus, I believe that the Romans have done enough in this season’s Eurocup and even though they will fight against Liverpool till the very end, they are not likely to appear in Kyiv.
It is quite obvious that “The Merseysiders” exceed their forthcoming opponents in the football class as well as Jurgen Klopp has advantage over Eusebio Di Francesco in the coaches’ rivalry. Besides, Liverpool had quite comfortable road to the semi-final while AS Roma have spent too many forces on it. Thus, taking into account the mentioned above, Liverpool can be named the favourites of the upcoming clash.
Prediction for the match: Liverpool to win.
