{"id":1074462,"date":"2022-05-03T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T09:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/03\/ucl-semifinals-what-awaits-liverpool-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T09:04:52","slug":"ucl-semifinals-what-awaits-liverpool-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/03\/ucl-semifinals-what-awaits-liverpool-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"UCL Semifinals: What Awaits Liverpool In Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2e15cc08dcfe4f2780c255740a062030\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Back in the 2015\/2016 season, Liverpool had an encounter with Villarreal in the Europa League semifinals and won by 3-1 on aggregates advancing to the finals which they lost to Sevilla by 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>And once again these two sides were drawn against each other in this season&#8217;s UEFA Champions League (UCL) semifinals with Liverpool already an edge over two goals advanced after beating them in the first leg at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Yellow Submarine&#8217; prior to this encounter have a record against the &#8216;Reds&#8217; at home grounds and intend to keep at all cost being one of the underestimated teams, they proved every critic wrong by ruling three of Europe&#8217;s finest &#8211; Atalanta, Juventus, and Bayern Munchen out of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/9f05b2e65bd34a31a815d97fdbde5f88\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/f82506a0d0d0453abe9486bb02d8b3be\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a3787d89d4444d0ba0035d601203a71c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Reds&#8217; this season have made one declaration known as &#8216;hard to beat&#8217; which is evident in the competition so far, losing once thus against Inter Milan at home.<\/p>\n<p>A step closer to the finals the unexpected and the expected can happen especially on trips and comparing Villarreal&#8217;s winning percentage in the first leg to the second leg, there is an increase by half ahead of today&#8217;s clash keeping track of their home record in 12-outings (W8, D4). Already Liverpool have the edge, however, it&#8217;s not the end of the journey, especially against a side with a solid home record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How well do you think Liverpool will resist today?.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: HonEhEs (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nEuropa League<br \/>\nLiverpool<br \/>\nSpain<br \/>\nUCL<br \/>\nVillarreal<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 2015\/2016 season, Liverpool had an encounter with Villarreal in the Europa League semifinals and won by 3-1 on aggregates advancing to the finals which they lost to Sevilla by 3-1. And once again these two sides were drawn against each other in this season&#8217;s UEFA Champions League (UCL) semifinals with Liverpool already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1074463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11254,1958,3728,9923,5121],"class_list":["post-1074462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-awaits","tag-liverpool","tag-semifinals","tag-spain","tag-ucl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}