Jurgen Klopp has announced that his Liverpool team will win the UEFA Champions League final in Porto, despite a 2-0 lead.
The Reds won the first leg at Anfield, but the manager said his players "are fighting with everything they have left" to reach the semifinal.
"We are at the right time, we want to play football and we want to fight," Klopp said.
"We will try to use the result [to Anfield] and trust him."
The win will earn Liverpool the final square for the second consecutive season, but Klopp expects Porto to be an "other animal" at Estadio do Dragao.
"They always have a game of high intensity in the atmosphere with increased intensity," added Klopp. "From the first step, they go with a clear direction.
"If we had to go down 2-0 and go home, would we think we left?" No way. " "That's exactly what Porto are thinking."
MATCH FACTS
PORTO
- Porto lost the first leg of a UEFA Champions League / European Cup qualifying knockout on six previous occasions by two or more goals, and in six of those cases, they were out of the competition.
- They are the only team that is still in the Champions League and this season (4/4) has won 100% of their home games in the competition. Porto even won five consecutive home games or more between October 1998 and December 1999 (a performance of six) for the last time.
- Moussa Marega has scored this season in all four home games of the FC Porto Champions League.
Liverpool
- Since the start of last season, Liverpool have won three of their four knockout UEFA Champions League games while losing to Roma in last season's semifinal (4-2).
- Liverpool have played nine of their previous two-legged European matches with manager Jurgen Klopp (four in the 2015-16 Europa League, the Champions League match in 2017-18 and four knockouts since the Champions League since the start of last season ).
- Sadio Mane scored a hat-trick for Liverpool against Porto in the Champions League last season; only Luiz Adriano (against Bate Borisov) and Cristiano Ronaldo (against Atletico Madrid) scored more than one hat trick against an opponent in the Champions League, while no player scored two in the house against a club.
- Since the start of the 2017-18 tournament, Roberto Firmino, the main Liverpool team, has scored and attended five different matches in the Champions League, more than any other player of the moment.
Liverpool have a 16% chance of winning the Champions League
Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis, Gracenote:
"After winning the first leg against FC Porto 2-0, Liverpool are now the most likely semi-finalists, ahead of FC Barcelona and Juventus. Liverpool's chance of a spot in the last four is 92% according to the Euro Club index. Liverpool's chance of winning the Champions League has risen to 16%, making them third favourites behind FC Barcelona and Juventus."
🏁 FC Porto v Liverpool 🍀
🏆 Champions League
📆 2019-04-17
🏟 Estádio do Dragão
⌚️ Kick Off 20:00 CPT ⚽️
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