Liverpool's dream run to Champions League final as Reds avoid THIRTEEN giant clubs until semis

Liverpool booked an automatic slot successful the Champions League knockout rounds having finished apical of the league signifier and portion they don’t yet cognize their opponents, they person recovered retired their way to the final

Liverpool person enjoyed a stunning run truthful acold successful the Champions League - and are successful a imagination concern to scope yet different final.

The Reds topped the league signifier aft winning 7 retired of their 8 radical games. The lone blot connected their transcript publication was Wednesday evening’s decision astatine the hands of PSV. Albeit, owed to Barcelona’s gully with Atalanta, Liverpool would triumph the league signifier with a spot successful the last-16 having already been assured. And it has present been confirmed that has allowed them to dodge a fig of Europe’s dense hitters.

After the tourney bracket was confirmed, Liverpool were revealed to beryllium playing immoderate of Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica, Monaco oregon Brest successful the adjacent round. All 4 of those sides look a play-off, and the gully volition instrumentality spot connected Friday.

Looking further ahead, the bracket for the quarter-finals looks adjacent kinder to Liverpool. They would travel up against immoderate of Lille, Aston Villa, Atalanta, Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon oregon Club Brugge.

The semi-finals are past acold much unfastened and the trouble would past crank up with Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, AC Milan and Manchester City each waiting. Other candidates see Arsenal, PSV, Feyenoord, Juventus and Celtic - albeit a immense array of those sides could already beryllium eliminated by that time.

The 1 squad that they won’t play until the last is La Liga giants Barcelona. The Catalans finished runners-up and arsenic a effect are connected the other broadside of the bracket.

And portion Liverpool could perchance person a kinder tally to the semi-finals, Arne Slot has fixed a informing to anyone getting excessively assured excessively soon. Speaking aft Wednesday’s decision to Feyenoord, helium said: “It's decidedly a bully accomplishment to extremity up apical of this league.

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"But I said galore times it's hard to justice a array aft 8 games, fto unsocial with the teams playing antithetic opponents. It doesn't archer maine much, immoderate person faced easier opponents than others but it's ever bully if there's a caller format and you extremity up fig one.

"But it doesn't springiness america immoderate assurances for the adjacent round, I spot the 4 teams we tin look and particularly 1 of them is decidedly 1 you are hoping not to look if you extremity up archetypal successful a radical similar this."

The Dutchman added: "At the extremity it [defeat to PSV] didn't person immoderate effect connected the array of the contention and what it meant for the adjacent round. I saw immoderate bully things, I saw goals conceded that I'd similar to spot america bash amended but I'm definite it's the aforesaid for PSV the mode they gave goals away."

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