Valverde Warns Barcelona to Be Wary of History at Anfield

By Daily Sports on May 7, 2019

Ernesto Valverde wanted to keep Barcelona’s feet on the ground after their 3-0 win over Liverpool so he hit his players where it hurt.

“Liverpool are a team that can make any opponent suffer,” he said in the press conference after the match.

“And of course last year we had a three-goal advantage in the quarterfinals. And we were knocked out.”

Valverde knows that loss to Roma still rankles with his players, barely a week passing without one of them referencing the game that defined their season last year and could yet shape this one too.

The tie looked over after a 4-1 thrashing at Camp Nou only for a 3-0 loss in Rome to complete one of the great Champions League comebacks and send the Italians into the semis.

That Real Madrid went on to win the tournament for a fourth time in five years rubbed salt into the wound. “It is a thorn in our side,” said Luis Suarez in September.

But it was not just that Barca had fallen short, for a third consecutive year. It was the way they had thrown it away.

“We feel like there is this scar,” Clement Lenglet told AFP Sport in February. “This match did us some harm. We want to erase that and have a beautiful season to forget it. We want to soothe the scar.”

Thirteen months on, Liverpool will hope the doubt that lingers and, perhaps, the pressure to make amends can help them pull off what would surely be the club’s most remarkable turnaround since the 2005 final in Istanbul.

“We have no reason to be complacent,” Valverde said. “The result is good, I have no doubt about that, but the tie is still open.”

Liverpool are stronger than Roma were. They have scored three or more goals 19 times this season, against opponents like Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, Arsenal and Porto. An early goal at Anfield on Tuesday and belief would surge. (SuperSport)

•Photo shows Erneste Valverde 

Source Daily Sports

Posted May 7, 2019


 

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