Liverpool held off a spirited Villarreal display with Luis Diaz producing the cameo of dreams to help the Reds qualify for their third Champions League final in five years.Any faint hopes Liverpool would breeze through their second leg in Spain were ruthlessly banished inside three minutes. Boulaye Dia halved Liverpool’s aggregate lead when peeling off the back of Virgil van Dijk to stab home Etienne Capoue’s mishit strike.
The Reds looked surprisingly rattled and saw their lead wiped out entirely five minutes before the break. Capoue bagged his second assist when crossing for Francis Coquelin who nodded home under minimal pressure from Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Liverpool had no choice but to improve after the break and every player to a man u …
- May 4, 2022
