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The Yellow Submarine scored in just the third minute of the second leg courtesy of Boulaye Dia before Francis Coquelin's 41st minute equalizer.

After dominating possession in the second half, Fabinho restored the lead for Liverpool in the 62nd minute. The Yellow Submarine looked to have a golden chance in the 37th minute but was left to argue for a penalty that was never given. Liverpool came shockingly close to a goal in the 55th minute off a quickly taken free kick. Villarreal kept up the pressure as Liverpool struggled to get out of its own half throughout the first 15 minutes. Villarreal will have to pull off the comeback without one of its top players, as Arnaut Danjuma is unavailable with a foot injury. But the Reds will have to hold off a Villarreal side that has put together a couple of formidable second-leg performances so far.

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Liverpool had trailed for a total of 69 minutes in matches since the turn of the year. Liverpool pushed to confirm their superiority and it felt like a trick of the mind that things had been so different in the first half. They had dreamed of scoring the first goal. He was beaten when Fabinho lashed in a shot from an angle, the ball seeming to go through him, which was a hammer blow for him and his team. They scored through Boulaye Dia and Francis Coquelin and the crazy thing was that the team that sits seventh in La Liga, the one with little experience of these kind of nights, could have had more. It was a night when their class told, specifically the control and composure that has seen them sweep all before them since the turn of the year, raising the prospect of an unprecedented quadruple.

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We couldn’t maintain the same rhythm than in the first half and that cost us.” “We locked eyes and just saw the space. “In the second half they were better than us. Liverpool took advantage of Villarreal’s letdown and Díaz, who helped turn the game around after entering the match at halftime, equalized with a 67th-minute header. The English club improved significantly in the second half. The hosts won almost every 50-50 ball and stayed near the Liverpool area without giving up much space for counterattacks.

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A game of two halves in Castellon as Liverpool produced a dominant second half performance to break Villarreal hearts on the night. Keita's long ball forward frees Mane in behind and Rulli makes a mess of his clearance to let the Senegalese star to roll home a fifth aggregate goal!!! He replaces Arnaut Danjuma, with Boulaye Dia preferred ahead of Samuel Chukwueze as his strike partner. May 3 May 3 May 3 3 3 3 2 2 2

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I am always honest and focus on the Champions League and Premier League. But now, why not?" I have never said this before, but before the season starts I say I want to go for 40 goals and maybe 15 assists. "I have hit the assists so I need to focus on the goals now!"

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"I said (to my staff) 'find one where we do it well and we can show it', and we come in and they said 'no, we don't have it.'" "We knew what was wrong because it was obvious, but we didn't have a situation to show them where we got it right," Klopp explained. "It feels like the first in 20 (years)," Klopp, who led Borussia Dortmund to the final of the competition in 2013, told BT Sport.

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And then Fabinho fired in, latching onto a Salah pass and shooting early through the legs of Rulli, who seemed to have expected the cross. Liverpool looked like a team smarting from a scolding after the break. Diaz volleyed over at the back post. Liverpool occasionally threatened on the break, with Mohamed Salah rolling Estupinan down the left and feeding Jota in the middle but Geronimo Rulli was quick to rush out and claw the ball away. But Jurgen Klopp threw on Diaz for Diogo Jota at the interval to shake Liverpool into life and it worked, the visitors scoring three times in 12 minutes to kill off Villarreal’s revival and advance to their third Champions League final in five years. Trailing 2-0 from the first leg, Villarreal sparked hopes of a remarkable turnaround in the return at the Estadio de la Ceramica after Boulaye Dia finished in the third minute and Francis Coquelin headed in another to make it 2-0 in the match and level the tie at 2-2 on aggregate.

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And then Fabinho fired in, latching onto a Salah pass and shooting early through the legs of Rulli, who seemed to have expected the cross. Liverpool looked like a team smarting from a scolding after the break. Diaz volleyed over at the back post. Liverpool occasionally threatened on the break, with Mohamed Salah rolling Estupinan down the left and feeding Jota in the middle but Geronimo Rulli was quick to rush out and claw the ball away. Liverpool came out a different side in the second half heaping the pressure back on a conservative Villarreal before Fabinho broke though in the 62nd minute — and Rulli’s nightmare began. Trailing 2-0 from the first leg, Villarreal sparked hopes of a remarkable turnaround in the return at the Estadio de la Ceramica after Boulaye Dia finished in the third minute and Francis Coquelin headed in another to level the tie at 2-2.

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While Liverpool are once again going head-to-head with Manchester City for the Premier League title, Salah has very personal history with Madrid on the biggest stage. "We knew what was wrong because it was obvious, but we didn't have a situation to show them where we got it right," Klopp said. "It feels like the first in 20 [years]," Klopp, who led Borussia Dortmund to the final of the competition in 2013, told BT Sport. "It's outstanding, because we obviously made it a little tricky for ourselves, but we knew these kind of things could happen." City is a really tough team, we play against them a few times this season. But if you ask me personally I would prefer Madrid." "We lost in the final so I want to play against them, hopefully win it from them as well," Salah added.

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"In the second half they were better than us. We couldn't maintain the same rhythm than in the first half and that cost us." "Whoever it will be (in the final) it will be massive." It didn't take long for Villarreal to cut into the first leg deficit as Dia opened the scoring from close range after a pass by Capoue in the third minute. Based in a city of just 50,000 people in southern Spain, Villarreal had eliminated Juventus in the round of 16 and Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals. "He's always appeared to be the weak link in this Villarreal side."

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I'm sure it'll be a good game," Alexander-Arnold said. "We never tend to make these Champions League semis easy for ourselves," Alexander-Arnold said. Liverpool were left frustrated throughout the remainder of the first half -- failing to get a single shot on target -- and saw Villarreal double their lead just before the break when Francis Coquelin scored from an exquisite glancing header to level the tie on aggregate.

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"(We needed to) play football, play the Liverpool way, as we have been playing basically all season. And obviously second half, we played outstanding," Liverpool centre back Virgil van Dijk said, adding that Klopp had given them clear instructions at halftime. from the home supporters. City lead 4-3 from the first leg. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

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Spurred by Diaz's introduction, Liverpool looked a different side after the interval. Within 10 minutes, the tie was over. Capoue again turned provider to draw Villarreal level in the tie five minutes before the break.

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Real have had their unforgettable fightbacks this season, against Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea, but City have yet to be tested in such a way. But so are Manchester City and Real Madrid, who meet in Madrid on Wednesday to decide who will face Liverpool on May 28. Up front, Gerard Moreno and Dia tormented Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate. Villarreal also profited from gaps down the Liverpool right, where both Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold failed to do their defensive duties. Villarreal coach Unai Emery had sent his team out with a game plan to press Liverpool incessantly and heap pressure on their defence. Diaz ran at Villarreal, defused their first-half tempo and allowed Liverpool to gain control of the game. Jurgen Klopp's squad were so poor in the first half -- outrun, out-tackled and out-thought by their Spanish opponents -- that goals by Boulaye Dia and Francis Coquelin had given Villarreal a 2-0 lead which cancelled out Liverpool's two-goal advantage from last week's first-leg.

After going down to Villarreal in the Champions League semifinal, Liverpool kicked into high gear like only they can.

Real have had their unforgettable fightbacks this season, against Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea, but City have yet to be tested in such a way. But so are Manchester City and Real Madrid, who meet in Madrid on Wednesday to decide who will face Liverpool on May 28. Up front, Gerard Moreno and Dia tormented Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate. Villarreal also profited from gaps down the Liverpool right, where both Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold failed to do their defensive duties. Villarreal coach Unai Emery had sent his team out with a game plan to press Liverpool incessantly and heap pressure on their defence. Diaz ran at Villarreal, defused their first-half tempo and allowed Liverpool to gain control of the game. Jurgen Klopp's squad were so poor in the first half -- outrun, out-tackled and out-thought by their Spanish opponents -- that goals by Boulaye Dia and Francis Coquelin had given Villarreal a 2-0 lead which cancelled out Liverpool's two-goal advantage from last week's first-leg.

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And then Fabinho fired in, latching onto a Salah pass and shooting early through the legs of Rulli, who seemed to have expected the cross. Liverpool looked like a team smarting from a scolding after the break. Diaz volleyed over at the back post.

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Salah’s personal relationship with Klopp is no small variable in the matter. Such an event is surely impossible in Liverpool’s current form under the steely reign of Jurgen Klopp, but there will be an inevitable need for rejuvenation. The potential to add a second Premier League title in three seasons — it trails Manchester City by only one point with four games remaining — makes this team’s success all the more remarkable. Salah turns 30 next month and is only contracted for one more season. The Reds are on cusp of football’s rarest feat. Liverpool in 2022 — and indeed, the Premier League in general — has the allure to attract the world’s best players, while the sale of its biggest stars would fund the signings of others.

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“(We needed to) play football, play the Liverpool way, as we have been playing basically all season. And obviously, second half, we played outstanding,” van Dijk said, adding that Klopp had given them clear instructions at halftime. If you ask me personally, I’d prefer Madrid.” City lead 4-3 from the first leg. Villarreal had been lifeless in the first leg at Anfield but looked a completely different team as they tore into Liverpool with the same aggressive game that had knocked out Juventus in the last 16 and beaten Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. Liverpool survived a first-half scare to reach the Champions League final with a 3-2 win at Villarreal, for a 5-2 aggregate victory, after the night had threatened to turn sour for Jurgen Klopp’s side.

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With Villarreal’s elimination, Shakhtar Donetsk is set to earn an automatic spot directly into the group stage next season. This was only the fourth appearance in Europe’s top club competition for the club. The hosts won almost every 50-50 ball and stayed near the Liverpool area without giving up much space for counter-attacks.

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He was the manager of Borussia Dortmund when they lost 2-1 to Bayern Munich at Wembley in 2013. Liverpool won the EFL Cup final in February, meaning they are still on course for a potential quadruple. Having also reached the finals of the EFL Cup and FA Cup this year, Liverpool will end this season having played 63 matches.

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“To be fair, it was calm,” Andy Robertson, the left-back, said of the dressing-room mood at half-time. The difference was what I was talking [to the players about] at half-time – that we started to do what we wanted to do in the first place. Liverpool simply reset mentally and trusted that the victory would be theirs when – and not if – they played as they wanted to play, moved as they wanted to move. It was not a classic Klopp comeback to rival those against Borussia Dortmund in 2016 and Barcelona three years later because Liverpool were not actually behind in the tie. “We had 11 problems in the first half,” Klopp added, referring to each one of his players. “The whole world thought the game was more 3-0 than 2-1,” Klopp said, going on to reveal that he wanted to show his players a clip at half-time of a positive moment to give them a lift.

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“Obviously Luis, what a player he is, but it’s not about who came on, it was about how we started to play,” Klopp added. “I said (to my staff) ‘find one where we do it well and we can show it’, and we come in and they said ‘no, we don’t have it’.” “We knew what was wrong because it was obvious, but we didn’t have a situation to show them where we got it right,” Klopp explained.

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He’s also moved level with Frank Lampard as the highest-scoring player in the knockout stages for a Premier League team. – Before this season, no English side had ever reached the final of the European Cup, FA Cup and League Cup final all in the same season. Thomas Muller (21) and Kylian Mbappe (19) are the only players in Europe’s top five leagues to have registered more in 2021-22. – Liverpool will play 100% of the games they could have played in 2021-22 by seeing each cup competition through to its conclusion. – Klopp has overtaken Pep Guardiola and moved level with record-holders Carlo Ancelotti, Miguel Munoz, Marcelo Lippi and Sir Alex Ferguson in terms of European Cup finals reached. But the introduction of January signing Luis Diaz at half-time allowed the Reds to shift a gear.

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Liverpool will meet their big-eared soulmate once again in the city of love on May 28th. Liverpool Football Club are by far England's best team in Europe and that will always be the case. After an incredible comeback on the night against Villarreal, Jurgen Klopp's men book their place in Paris with a 5-2 aggregate scoreline in the semi-final.

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The final in Paris will see Real Madrid attempting to extend their record with a 14th Champions League / European Cup title, while Liverpool — appearing in their third final in five seasons — will be looking for their seventh triumph. Manchester City will have to push aside the disappointment from its Champions League exit to focus on the final run-in in the Premier League. Guardiola's men lead Liverpool by a point with four games left. In the process he became the first player ever to score twice in the 90th minute and beyond in a Champions League knockout match.

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The manager who steered Madrid to 'La Décima' in 2014 returned last summer for a second stint in charge. He scored Madrid's 1,000th European Cup goal against Shakhtar earlier this campaign then turned around their last-16 tie with Paris with a second-half hat-trick before striking the decisive blow in extra time against the Blues to make it four goals in the tie. And then you get to the in-form Benzema up front – a master of the arts of centre-forward play. How is it possible to lose at home to Sheriff and then reach the final with gargantuan performances against Paris, Chelsea and Manchester City? The route map helps explain. A star at Basel, he first landed in England with Chelsea in 2014 but has proved a major talent on Merseyside, his pace, intelligence and finishing helping him bag 33 Champions League goals for the club. Klopp rarely deviates from his tried and tested 4-3-3 formation – a system that has served the Reds wonderfully well since the German's arrival in 2015.