Liverpool 2-0 Porto: Firmino and Keita shake 'n' move keeps Reds solidly hold
Liverpool have one foot in the last four of the Champions League subsequent to easing past a profilgate Porto at Anfield on Tuesday.
Match Events
5' GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Porto (Keita)
LIVERPOOL GET THE EARLY LEAD!! Milner plays an excellent long ball out on the other wing to Mane, who spills past a few defenders before finding Firmino in the crate, and the Brazil forward plays the onrushing Keita on the edge of the territory whose intensely diverted shot hoodwinks Casillas and goes in the back of the net! First blood to Klopp's Reds, who are 1-0 up with only five minutes played!
22' Salah passes up on a golden chance!
26' GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Porto (Firmino)
EXCELLENT TEAM GOAL!! Liverpool play it around from the back and continue up the pitch towards the Porto half, ending with a dazzlingly strung throughball by Henderson towards the way of the overlapping Alexander-Arnold, and the full-back crosses it low to Firmino who can tap the ball into a vacant net!
34' MISS! Firmino's shot over the bar
48' OFFSIDE! Mane's goal prohibited
63' CHANCE! Salah's shot spared
Match Report
Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino were on focus as Liverpool facilitated to a 2-0 win in the main leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Porto.The Portuguese champions had revenge on the mind in the wake of being dumped out by Jurgen Klopp's side in the last 16 of a year ago's competition however a disappointing first-half performance has given them an omnipotent errand in next week's return apparatus at the Estadio do Dragao.
Keita's second objective in not exactly seven days got the Reds ready for action after only five minutes before Firmino included a basic second in the 26th minute.
Liverpool did the majority of the pressing in the second half – Sadio Mane coming nearest from long range – yet they were unable to find a third that would have everything except ended the tie as a contest.
Match Events
5' GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Porto (Keita)
LIVERPOOL GET THE EARLY LEAD!! Milner plays an excellent long ball out on the other wing to Mane, who spills past a few defenders before finding Firmino in the crate, and the Brazil forward plays the onrushing Keita on the edge of the territory whose intensely diverted shot hoodwinks Casillas and goes in the back of the net! First blood to Klopp's Reds, who are 1-0 up with only five minutes played!
22' Salah passes up on a golden chance!
26' GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Porto (Firmino)
EXCELLENT TEAM GOAL!! Liverpool play it around from the back and continue up the pitch towards the Porto half, ending with a dazzlingly strung throughball by Henderson towards the way of the overlapping Alexander-Arnold, and the full-back crosses it low to Firmino who can tap the ball into a vacant net!
34' MISS! Firmino's shot over the bar
63' CHANCE! Salah's shot spared
Match Report
Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino were on focus as Liverpool facilitated to a 2-0 win in the main leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Porto.The Portuguese champions had revenge on the mind in the wake of being dumped out by Jurgen Klopp's side in the last 16 of a year ago's competition however a disappointing first-half performance has given them an omnipotent errand in next week's return apparatus at the Estadio do Dragao.
Keita's second objective in not exactly seven days got the Reds ready for action after only five minutes before Firmino included a basic second in the 26th minute.
Liverpool did the majority of the pressing in the second half – Sadio Mane coming nearest from long range – yet they were unable to find a third that would have everything except ended the tie as a contest.
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