Champions League: Liverpool in trouble after defeat against St Germain

Champions League: Liverpool in trouble after defeat against St Germain

Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund qualify for the final

Paris St Germain fans celebrate Liverpool win in Champions League (AFP)

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Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04 and Porto were ready to win the Champions League final at the end of the group stage.
Paris Saint-Germain, Napoli and Tottenham, champions of the French Premier League, increased their chances of winning 2-1 against Liverpool, the Red Star Serbian 3-1 and Inter Milan 1-0.
Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp admitted that the defeat at Paris St Germain had created problems for the team, which has to beat Napoli in the last round of the first round of the Champions League to qualify for the playoffs.
Liverpool lost to St Germain 1 to 2 at six points in Group C, eight points behind Paris Saint-Germain and nine points for leaders of the Napoli group.
The club, who led the team last season in the tournament final, said his team had to make a strong bid and defeat Napoli at the end of both group games to advance to the knockout stages.
The club said his team did not fear a premature exit from the first round but would work hard to avoid it. He stressed that Marco Veratti de Saint-Germain deserved to be expelled from his violent intervention with Liverpool's Gomez.
The German coach said after the match that his team was in desperate need of a win over St Germain, but was surprised by the obvious risk that St Germain represented, especially early in the game.
"It was very difficult to handle this performance of St Germain, who scored his second goal of a quick counterattack in light of the obvious speed of the players on this team."
The number of clubs qualified for the second round from 12. Barcelona are the first winners (of the fourth round), Real Madrid has won the last three years, Juventus, Rome, Bayern Munich, Ajax, Manchester United and Manchester City.
There are four cards left in the final round on December 11th and 12th.
In the first round, Paris Saint-Germain claimed victory and revenge against defender Anfield, against defender Juan Bernat, who opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Brazilian Neymar da Silva added 37 goals, while James Milner scored the visitors' only goal (45 + 1 penalty).
The Parisians managed to position themselves in the group and, having been out of the qualifying positions for the next round, were in the best position to be in the final round of the red star and his victory will secure his ticket to the seventh consecutive season to avoid entering complex calculations in the event of a draw and win Liverpool Fight Naples 2-1 after losing 1-0 in Italy.
Paris Saint-Germain defeated Liverpool in direct matches (2-3 in England and 2-1 in France), while Naples defeated the Parisians (2-2 in Paris and 1 to 1 in Naples).
Napoli made the most of the 3-1 win over the Reds and made an important step towards the finals by requiring only one draw.
Slovaks Marek Hamsik (11), Dres Mertens (33, 52), Napoli and Alvaro Ben Mohammed of Comoros (57) scored the goal of the Red Star.
Danish international Christian Eriksen returned to Tottenham's disappointed hopes after scoring his only goal against Inter Milan 80 minutes after 10 minutes after returning from Argentina's Eric Lamela's place.
Tottenham, who had beaten AC Milan 2-1 in the first round of the Group B game, was back on the bench with seven points, but outperformed in a live match.
The final round will be decisive for Inter Milan and Tottenham Hotspur, where PSV Eindhoven will host the second and second guest of the Catalan giants. Tottenham must win to reach the next round, but can guarantee it even in the event of a draw or loss, provided that Inter has not obtained a better result.
Tottenham coach Mauricio Pocetino emphasized his team's ability to qualify. "Anything is possible," he said. I never said that the task was impossible. In football, anything can happen. We must trust our abilities. "
"It will be a difficult task (win in Barcelona) but trust is very important."
In the same group, Barcelona found the tone of victories, which stopped at the last lap with a draw with Inter Milan, imposing in Eindhoven Dutch 2 goals for the star of Lionel Messi (61 ) and defender Gerard Pique (70) against the goal of Luke de Young (83).
This is Barcelona's fourth win, with one of six teams still having suffered from the competition alongside Naples, Porto, Bayern Munich, Ajax and Lyon.
Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund qualified for the Champions League final with a 2-0 home victory over Monaco and Frenchman Antoine Grizmann, 24, and a 2-0 draw at home against Club Bruges.
Atletico won 12 points and took a big step forward by finishing first in the standings after moving them away from Dortmund by two points, four for Bruges and one for Monaco.
In the last round, on December 11, Monaco played with Dortmund and Clube Brugge with Atletico.
In Porto and Schalke, they qualified for the second round before their 3-1 encounter in Porto. Galatasaray sank 2-0 in front of the Moscow Lokomotiv 2 hours before the start of the leaders' summit.
Brazilian striker Ider Milletau (52), Mexican Jose Coruna (55), Mali Marisa (90 + 4) and Nabil Ben Talib (89)
In 1987 and 2004, Porto took advantage both of the field and the public to beat Schalke and clear the top of the group and avoid the face of adults at the price of the final.
In the second game, Galatasaray was invited to win to keep his hopes in the competition with one of the group's cards, but he was stuck with a strong determination to the players of the Russian team, who answered the religion with two goals scored by the Polish Gregory Krishoviak 43 years and Vladislav Ignatiev 54 years.
Galatasaray, who won his first group A win, has four points, one ahead of Lokomotiv Moscow.
Lokomotiv regained his hopes of finishing the group stage in third place, which allowed him to continue his tour of the European Championship where he reduced the gap to a point of his Turkish guest.

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