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This is Anfield! On Tuesday, Liverpool FC fans will be whipping their Reds forward in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final to maintain the dream of their first ever premier class since 2007. Guests will be AS Roma, with which the current top scorer of the Premier League and leaders in the race for the Golden Shoe – Mohamed Salah – meets his old club. The English are considered clear favorites to progress and want to lay the foundation for this at home. But the Roma has kicked out FC Barcelona. A self-runner will not be so.
Liverpool:
He is a phenomenon! Mohamed Salah has scored 41 goals in 46 competitive matches for his new club following his move from Roma to Liverpool last summer. The top scorer in the Premier League leads the Egyptian with 31 goals sovereign in front of Harry Kane at 26. In his last seven games for Liverpool and the Egyptian national team, Salah always hit, scoring ten (!) Goals. In fact, Salah did not hit twice in his last sixteen appearances – and one time only came in for a brief spell of seventeen minutes. Absolutely clear: The success of Liverpool this season is closely linked to the Egyptians. At the weekend, Salah scored his 31st goal in league play, setting a record. Since the Premier League has only 38 games left, only Alan Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez have scored so many goals in one season. Salah will break this record with three games remaining.
In any case, on Saturday his goal was not enough for victory. In the end West Bromwich Albion Liverpool came in the end despite a 2-0 lead only to a 2: 2. This left Liverpool unbeaten in their seventh competitive game in a row – five wins and two draws. In general, the Reds conceded only one bankruptcy in their last fifteen competitive matches. The Champions League in the coming season, Liverpool is as good as safe given eight points ahead of Chelsea in fifth. Speaking of Champions League: In the premier class Liverpool is the only team that still has not lost yet. Jürgen Klopp’s side have come up with six wins and four draws in ten matches in the group stage and knockout rounds. In addition, the two wins against Hoffenheim in the playoffs. In the quarterfinals, Liverpool prevailed in the English duel against Manchester City. After a furious 3-0 in the first leg in Anfield Klopp and his boys won 2-1 in Manchester.
AS Roma:
Liverpool would have expected one or the other in the round of the last four. But that AS Roma reached the semi-finals, which probably had only a few on the slip. With one of the biggest comebacks in Champions League history, the Roma threw none other than FC Barcelona out of the competition in the quarterfinals. After a 1: 4 in the first leg at Camp Nou, as the Italians poured two goals themselves, but otherwise laid a solid performance, no one has set the famous chanterelle to the Romans. But in the second leg AS Roma showed a true gala performance, won 3-0 and went on to fully deserve a round at the end. Thus, the AS Roma reached for the first time since 1991 again a semifinals in the premier class. The fact that the Giallorossi again in the coming season in the concert of the greats involved, is not yet determined. At least the dress rehearsal for the performance in Anfield has succeeded.
In newly promoted SPAL AS Roma won at the weekend clearly 3-0, claiming third place in the table. However, also won the tied city rivals Lazio Rome and Inter Milan, which is only one point behind the two Roman clubs in fifth place. In Serie A, AS Roma is much better on the opponent’s court than at home. At home, the Romans come namely to a record of ten wins, a draw and six defeats. On the other hand, apart from ten threes and six draws, it is only a bankruptcy. In the Champions League, however, there was only one victory for AS Roma on the opponent’s place in five games. He was a close 2-1 in the group stage with Qarabağ Agdam from Azerbaijan. Otherwise, Rome reached a draw at Chelsea (3: 3) and three defeats at Atletico Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk and Barcelona.
Liverpool vs AS Roma head to head matches
02.08.16 CF Liverpool AS Roma 1 : 2
24.07.14 CF Liverpool AS Roma 0 : 1
25.07.12 CF Liverpool AS Roma 1 : 2
19.03.02 CL Liverpool AS Roma 2 : 0
05.12.01 CL AS Roma Liverpool 0 : 0