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Good times are always short-lived. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info a day's vacation has passed. Chen Xi and his team-mates returned to Melwood to begin preparations for the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals.

The 3-1 win in the first leg gave Liverpool the upper hand in the semi-finals.

However, the whole Liverpool team did not take the second leg lightly because of the away victory.

It also has to do with the fact that Benitez constantly beats the players in training, as a mental master. The Spaniard knows that the season is now in progress, and the most important thing is to ensure that the players are in a normal state of mind!

Not losing a season is quite an achievement. It's also very normal for the players to feel pride. Not to mention the players, even Benitez is a coach who occasionally generates some pride. When he plays against some teams in the middle and lower reaches of the league, he always thinks it's a set three points.

Because of these, Liverpool's unbeaten record this season has also been tested many times. Fortunately, Benitez and Liverpool were lucky, and these difficulties were overcome.

As we get to the end of the season, issues like form and fitness shouldn't be an issue.

Because everyone knows that there is only less than a month left in the end, and there are still two irrelevant leagues during the period, and they will get through by gritting their teeth!

Rather than form and fitness, mentality is the most important thing!

Although neither the club nor Benitez has mentioned it, but now, Liverpool, from the top management to the coach, from the players to the fans, everyone has made it their goal to create a myth of unbeaten season!

There are two league games left, an FA Cup final, a Champions League semi-final and, if you win, a Champions League final!

Among them, the opponent of the last two rounds of the league, Middlesbrough, one is ranked tenth, one is eleventh, and the mid-stream team is in full swing, with no hope of European competition and no relegation worries, so the players of the team may have put their minds into the upcoming holiday and should not be able to bring any trouble to the Liverpool team.

In addition, in the Champions League semi-finals, with the advantage of the first leg, as long as Liverpool does not make the mistakes of defending champion AC Milan, it should not be a big problem to reach the final.

As a result, only the FA Cup and Champions League finals are really ahead of Liverpool.

Especially in the FA Cup final, the opponent was Manchester United, who had just been picked out by Liverpool and celebrated the title at their home stadium, which humiliated them a lot.

Ferguson and the Red Devils will naturally be hoping for revenge in this final, breaking Liverpool's dream of winning four titles and going unbeaten until the end of the season!

As for the Champions League final, in the other semi-final, Porto and Deportivo La Coruna played 0-0 at the Stadio de Dragons. Deportivo La Coruna, who looked to be playing at home in the second leg, had a definite advantage.

However, Porto are not exactly at a disadvantage, as not conceding at home in the first leg means that Porto can send them to the final if they score in Riazo, even if it is a draw.

During this time, the outside world's predictions for this game were also divided into two camps.

There are those who support "Super Laco" to continue to make team history, and there are also those who support young coach Jose Mourinho and his young team to advance to the European finals for two consecutive seasons!

At this time, only Chen Xi, a traverser, knew that it was Porto that entered the final in the end.

In fact, even if Chen Xi was given a chance to buy a lottery ticket, he would not dare to bet on Porto to enter the finals with all his net worth.

Because he didn't dare to guarantee whether the butterfly effect he crossed would affect this game. After all, last season's UEFA Cup, which originally belonged to Porto, was snatched away by Chen Xi's Tottenham, who knows if this Porto is the same as Porto in the previous 04 years?

Of course, for Madman coach Mourinho, Chen Xi still trusts him very much. So he's still more bullish on Porto.

Chen Xi knows the history, but Benitez and his assistants don't, they can only prepare for two things, and now the Liverpool staff have begun to gather information about the Porto and Deportivo teams.

Football matches have a lot in common with war, and intelligence is also very important for winning or losing.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles...... The ancients did not deceive others! ――

On May 5, the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals between Deportivo La Coruna and Porto was the first to be played at the Riazor Stadium!

The first leg of an away draw with Porto gave Deportivo fans confidence in their team.

The sky was not beautiful, and it began to rain in A Coruña that afternoon, and it was windy.

The Spanish King Juan Carlos was in Riazor to watch the match, and the stadium was extremely secure, with as many as 2,000 police and security personnel, and the fans of the two teams were strictly separated from each other when they entered.

Tickets for seats near the king are said to have reached €450 on the black market. Zapatero, who was elected prime minister of Spain last month, also said he would be there to support Laco, but he did not come.

Riazo, who has always been the home of the La Liga devils, has been created into a region by Deportivo fans today!

The Porto get crazy boos every time they get the ball, and Deportivo get the fans cheering unsparingly every time they get it!

In such a life-and-death battle, both teams seem to be more cautious.

In the first half, the two sides spent more than hot and not exciting scenes, and the two sides exchanged blanks.

The deadlock was not broken until an hour into the game!

Porto goalkeeper Baia kicked straight up front, Deportivo Cesar was not far from the ball, Deco got the ball on the left side of the field, shook Pablo and burst into the left side of the box.

Looking at the menacing Deco, Cesar, who had just cleared the ball wrong, was ready to make up for it, but his tackle did not allow him to complete the redemption, but fell deeper and deeper, Deco deducted the ball past Cesar's tackle, but the man could not dodge it and fell directly to the ground. Italy's Golden Whistle Corina did not hesitate to give a penalty penalty, Delle took the penalty with his right foot and pushed into the bottom left corner, although Molina pounced in the right direction, but Delle shot at too awkward angles, the ball stuck to his fingertips into the corner, Porto led 1-0.

With a stabbing death, Laco ended a run of eight home games without conceding a goal in the Champions League since November 2002.

The goal was a huge bad news for Deportivo La Coruna, who had to pull back two goals to reverse due to the lack of a goal on the road, and at this time, the female fans in the stands of Riazo were already in tears.

In the face of difficulties, Irueta successively deployed troops and sent a number of attacking players.

Ten minutes later, however, Deportivo La Coruna were hit hard again when their captain Naibet was sent off for a foul on Ferreira, a second yellow card.

With one goal behind and one man to play, Deportivo La Coruna did not be able to create the miracle of "Super Laco" again.

Although Porto did not take advantage of the numerical advantage to extend the score, the 1-0 score was enough to ensure that they advanced to the final!

When Corina blew the whistle for the end of the match, the Stadio Riazo was transformed from the territory of the Porto people into a paradise for them, and the owners here literally fell into the abyss.

Mourinho stood on the sidelines with his hands held high, like a king.

After a year of hibernation by Tottenham in the UEFA Cup last season, he and his Porto are back, only this time it has become a bigger stage in the Champions League!

Porto's reach for the Champions League final also allowed them to reach the UEFA Cup and Champions League finals in two consecutive years!

Interestingly, Liverpool did the same, reaching the final of the UEFA Cup in 1976 and the Champions League final the following year. The difference is that Liverpool had the last laugh on both occasions and won the title.

There is no doubt that after this game, the media is already looking forward to the scene of the two teams clashing in the final.

At the same time, Mourinho is looking forward to what will be a revenge battle for him and his team.

Although it was Tottenham Hotspur who snatched the title from them last season, as the absolute core of that team, Chen Xi is now playing for Liverpool!

In last season's League Cup final, it was not so much that Porto lost to Tottenham, but that they lost to Chen Xi alone!

After this game, the eyes of European football shifted to Liverpool's Anfield.

The next day, another Champions League semi-final second leg will be played there, with another Champions League final team to be chosen.

After Riazo's victory, Mourinho did not return to Portugal with the team, but came to Liverpool alone. He'll be spotting his opponents in the final at Anfield!

At this time, no one paid attention to the magic bird that rushed to Liverpool.

The media's cameras were focused on Monaco and Liverpool, who were making final preparations.

There are a lot of French media in Liverpool, and they all hope that their league team can create a Deportivo miracle in this game and complete a big comeback at Anfield!

As for the British media, they simply didn't take a 3-1 defeat at the Stade Louis II in the first leg of Monaco's eyes. Their eyes are already on the Ovschalke Stadium in Gelsenkirchen twenty-one days later.

And they have begun to collect information about Porto, ready to help the Liverpool team "dissect" the Portuguese team clearly, and then use a microscope to show the Liverpool team!

Perhaps only then will Liverpool feel the benefits of Britain's powerful media...... This is a huge help for them to gather intelligence!

Didier Deschamps and his Monaco squad have been very low-key since arriving at Liverpool, not giving interviews and even keeping their pre-match acclimatisation training closed.

Obviously, they didn't come to Liverpool to make soy sauce......

(To be continued)