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Liverpool 2-1 Lille: Match Review
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22/01/2025
Will Rooney reports from Anfield.
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Full time here at Anfield, Liverpool 2, Lille 1, Liverpool into the last 16 of the Champions League,
00:08
extending their perfect record in Europe's elite club competition this season.
00:14
They were guaranteed a second spot at least, nearly had that by Barcelona's dramatic late winner Benfica.
00:22
Liverpool didn't really have to get out of third gear, in truth it wasn't the best performance,
00:27
the first half was a little bit of a humdrum, Lille set out the stall pretty early,
00:33
tried to frustrate Liverpool, tried to force Liverpool into mistakes,
00:38
but give credit to Arne Slott, he said to his troops that they need to be patient and that they were,
00:46
because they didn't really give Lille any chances to hit them on the break.
00:52
They were patient throughout and they got the reward in the 34th minute,
00:58
when Costa Simacas produced a really good challenge to dispossess Lille and Liverpool launched a counter.
01:05
Curtis Jones playing a fantastic through ball into the path of Mo Salah,
01:09
who kept us cool and finished nonchalantly.
01:14
Just before half time Liverpool had another chance through Salah,
01:18
he was set free by Luis Diaz, wriggled away, just put his efforts far side of the post.
01:24
Liverpool came out of the blocks quickly in the second half,
01:27
Salah had a chance that went just past the post,
01:31
Conor Bradley put one over the bar, cross comes shot and Darwin Nunez was saved by the onrushing goalkeeper.
01:38
And then Lille were just for ten men, but they hit back, pretty poor defensive for Liverpool,
01:45
Conor Bradley got beaten a little bit too easily to the ball and Lille took a shot,
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Costa Simacas, it wasn't the best of shots, Costa Simacas decided to try to block it,
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maybe Alisson Becher was going to make a comfortable save, probably couldn't take a risk.
02:01
But the ball fell to the player you didn't want it to drop to,
02:04
Jonathan Davies who's been in rampant form for Lille this season and he finished for the first time.
02:10
Effort with Alisson unable to make a save because he was already on the deck,
02:15
but five minutes later Liverpool were back in front,
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Harvey Elias who came on at half time, made a real impact, got his reward.
02:23
Conor headed away by Lille but it fell to Elias on the edge of the box,
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he took his chance, took a wicked deflection to be fair,
02:31
the effort but he deserved that luck because he made a real impact.
02:36
From there Liverpool seeing it out comfortably,
02:39
Federico Chiesa who came off the bench had a couple of efforts,
02:42
one of which was put on by Darwin Nunes but he was offside.
02:46
In the end it was fairly comfortable, a good result for Liverpool,
02:50
they managed to rotate players, the only downside was Curtis Jones was forced off at half time with an injury.
02:58
That didn't give too much away but Jones tried to continue after receiving treatment
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so maybe that isn't too bad for Liverpool.
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Overall Liverpool have seven wins from seven in the Champions League
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into the last 16 avoiding that play-off round, avoiding two more fixtures,
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that's massive for the Reds, especially as they're fighting on four fronts.
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Now the attention turns back to the Premier League when they welcome Ipschwitz here on Saturday
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which will be a little bit of banana skin but you would back Liverpool to go and get another three points
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but they can't be underestimating the Charterboys.
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Another European night to celebrate and I'm feeling as Liverpool too, Lille 1.
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