Real Madrid despite trailing in the first half an hour of the first half has turn around the first leg of their UCL KO tie against Liverpool. Madrid who reached the final of the same tournament last year by delivering comebacks in every knockout fixtures of the tournament has started this season’s knockout ties from where they left it.
Liverpool has been Real Madrid’s favorite opponent in the last few years of the game. They have defeated Liverpool in two Champion’s League finals already, and this year Madrid looked like they just wanted to finish things off in the first leg.
Liverpool has been playing amazing in the first half as their new striker Darwin Nunez who was struggling to find his place in the team has opened the scoresheet against Madrid in the first few minutes of the match. After that Courtois performed a blunder to literally gift Mohammed Salah the second goal for Liverpool. However, Madrid since then decided to step up and take the game home from Pool’s backyard.
Real Madrid Thrashed Liverpool 5-2:
Vinicius started the goals galore with a beautiful bottom right corner curler that Alison or the Liverpool defence had no chance of stopping. After that, Alison probably taking inspiration from Courtois gifted Vini his second goal. Real Madrid equalized with a rebound goal from Vinicius that came from a misspass by Alison. As the second half started, Karim Benzema scored another banger to put Madrid ahead in the tie. Then Eder Militao scored a header and then finally Vinicius assisted Benzema for Real Madrid’s 5th goal in the tie.
Even in Real Madrid’s hall of fame, this outcome will rank highly, but it will also be remembered negatively for Liverpool, who suffered their heaviest Champions League loss ever after giving up five goals for the first time in the competition’s history.