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MANCHESTER, England :Manchester City remained one point clear of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League standings after the highly-anticipated clash of the giants ended in a pulsating 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
DUBAI: It was an open-and-shut case for many, including his manager. Mohamed Salah was, it was declared on an almost weekly basis, the best soccer player in the world for the first half of this season, demonstrating the kind of elite-level scoring form only Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and more recently Robert Lewandowski have been able to produce this century. It wasn’t just the volume of goals — 22 in his first 23 matches — that he was putting away for Liverpool.
Winger Luis Diaz marked his return to Portugal with the crucial late goal which gave Liverpool a 3-1 lead over Benfica to take back to Anfield for their Champions League quarter-final second leg.
Trent Alexander-Arnold is considered by many football fans to be one of the best right-backs in the world and the Liverpool defender lived up to his hype with a brilliant performance against Benfica. The England player was up to his usual tricks in his side's UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg encounter at the Estadio da Luz. He helped create Liverpool's second goal in a 3-1 victory and almost created another. In the 34th-minute, Benfica midfielder Adel Taarabt lost the ball and midfield and then the 23-year-old Arnold floated a long cross-field pass to Luis Diaz from his usual right-back spot. Diaz headed it across goal to Sadio Mane, who simply tapped it home to make 2-0.
While Ibrahima Konate scored the opening goal in Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Benfica in the Champions League, Fabinho still managed to steal the show.
Liverpool took a huge step towards qualifying for the semi-finals of the 2021/22 Champions League on Tuesday evening.
Liverpool took charge of their Champions League quarter-final against Benfica on Tuesday as Sadio Mane, Ibrahima Konate and Luis Diaz gave them a 3-1 lead after the first leg in Lisbon. Konate nodded in his first Liverpool goal from a corner before Mane tapped home to put the visitors in command at the Estadio da Luz. Benfica made a game of it early in the second half when a Konate error allowed the lively Darwin Nunez to pull one back, but Diaz, who was superb all night, added a third to put Liverpool in sight of the semis.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits his side should have scored more in their 3-1 victory over Benfica having dominated the first half of their Champions League quarter-final in Lisbon.