Liverpool Basel 1-1
The premise was simple before Liverpool’s home game against Basel in the last match round of Champion League group games.
Victory and they would advance to the eight final. All other result would send swiss further at the expense of the club who have won the tournament five times.
match ended 1-1 after club legend Steven Gerrard had given Anfield hoping for a foul gem with ten minutes left to play. With the result was the tournament over for Brendan Rodgers men.
– We deserved no better. Man qualify over six games and unfortunately we have not been good enough, says Steven Gerrard in an interview shown on Viasat after the game.
Raging against the judge
A form guard Liverpool created very little and it did not help that summer signing Lazar Markovic was expelled just 15 minutes after he was substituted at half.
These layers are further Champions League:
Group A:
1. Atlético
2. Juventus
Group B:
1. Real Madrid
2. Basel
Group C:
1. Monaco
2. Leverkusen
Group D:
1. Borussia Dortmund
2. Arsenal
– The referee did there best providing not give us an opportunity to move forward, but what we did in the second half did we deserved more from this match, says Brendan Rodgers after the game in an interview shown on Viasat.
– The expulsion was not even close to be a red card. He touches his nose with a fingertip. He goes down should have been a red card. A disappointing reaction, and even more when he got the red card. There was a series of decisions that were strange today.
Rodgers admitted, however, that they had no good excuses for not going on.
Markovic stands as the symbol of a number of summer signings who have not switched to Liverpool.
With third in the group goes to Liverpool Europa League instead, and something has happened in the club since the second place in the Premier League Beyond that Luis Suárez have left the club.
– Liverpool have obviously missed the transfer market, and is now in a situation that is violently disturbing for the manager and the whole club that steps must be taken . Liverpool is currently a club and have a manager who futile. He did not hit their layer alignment. There are so many problems throughout the line that it is not easy to point to a single cause, says TV2 commentator Øyvind Alsaker.
Missed by a scorer has been Obviously the season. It’s a big part of the reason they have ended up in this mess.
– I’m not surprised that Liverpool busted by the Champions League. It is a situation they have put themselves in itself, after weak results throughout the fall. Obviously they could have experienced a magical European night at Anfield but Liverpool is a club fight trouble and I am therefore not in the least surprised that they failed to go ahead, says Alsaker.
– How Liverpool have emerged this season as there is a layer free of measured russel opponent, he says.
It is also one of the factors Steven Gerrard pointed after the fateful outcome. They need goalscorers to get back into the top four.
– We must have our top scorer back that can score the goals we need and we have to get Mario Balotelli back and firing on all cylinders, says Liverpool captain.
dispirited home team
That game meant a lot to both Liverpool and the team’s fans was evident with an electrical frame around the game.
Maybe meant it too much red. Created, who has struggled with form also in the domestic league, so dispirited out and could not produce much.
Raheem Sterling was fresh, but one-man show never brought any really big dangerous devices during the first round.
Wall Games gave goal
Instead the goal came completely wrong way the home fans.
Fabian Frei scored the 1-0 after 25 minutes of the first half. He got the ball at 20 meters, turned up and played wall with Luca Zuffi before he hammered the ball into the right corner.
It was the only goal in the first half and Brendan Rodgers took grip.
– The manager said at half time that it was not good enough in the first place, if we were to go out so we had to go out with a fight, says Steven Gerrard after the game.
Markovic expelled
Lazar Markovic and Alberto Moreno replaced Rickie Lambert and José Enrique, Liverpool looked better.
In any case until Markovic got a red card by the referee after quarter. Serb slammed out an arm towards Behrang Safari, hit him in the face and got a red card.
Homemade put all cloths forward and began to create more dangerous chances ten against eleven. Meanwhile, there was also room for counterattacks other way.
Fouls Pearl
Liverpool shouted penalty when Steven Gerrard was stopped by an outstretched goalkeeper Tomás Vaclík. The referee waved play on, but the hosts should have the opportunity get a chance at set pieces with ten minutes left.
The Curl captain himself up to the nearest corner, Detachable Basel-keeper.
When started onslaught against Basel goal.
Nearest came Jordan Henderson who gets through a Basel player and caught goalkeeper on the wrong foot. Vaclík broke however return to the opposite side soon enough. Had the ball gone a little more to the side, he had not shot.
Despite homemade created more towards the end of the game than they had done throughout the game together, they did not it important second goal.
– We knew it would be difficult because we had ten men, but it gave us hope. They defended well and made it difficult for us, said goalscorer after the game.
PS: In the other match of the group B won 4-0 over Real Madrid Ludogorets.
Real Madrid’s sovereign group winner with six straight wins.
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