First Half

Good first half from Liverpool as they dominated Barcelona with their style. The problems for Liverpool came when Keita got injured and it changed Klopp's plan as Keita was the one who was connecting Liverpool game. After Keita's substitution the game changed a bit in favor of Barcelona as Henderson couldn't adapt to Keita's position. Valverde decided to put Arturo Vidal instead of Arthur as Vidal could defend the Liverpool attack, so Valverde decided to give up with the possession (with Arthur) and chose to defend.

Barcelona had isolated moves and in one of them came the goal of Suarez after the assit from Alba and Vidal initiated the play.

The English team didn't come down and looked for the area of Ter Stegen, but the Barça defense has been a wall. Mané has had the clearest to tie.

In the first half we also saw a polemic play when Barcelona claimed a penalty caused by a hand of Matip but the referee saw nothing

Second Half

The second half started like the first one, with Liverpool looking for Barcelona' net. Barcelona started with an unbalanced midfield without clear passes and Liverpool had the possesion and Ter Stegen saved Barcelona several times with shots from Salah and Milner. Coutinho did a good first half but in the second half and couldn' t connect two passes and the fans whistled him when he was replaced.

During the second half Liverpool fans must have thought: "We need a striker" as they touched the ball really well but couldn't make a goal. And with Liverpool playing their best minutes, arrived Barcelona's second goal. Messi started the play, assisted Suarez, he hit the post and Messi scored. Liverpool had been very threatening in the second half but couldn't take advantage of their opportunities.

With Liverpool sad after the second goal, arrived the third, a beautiful and incredible goal by Messi. He shot free-kick and scored and amazing goal. Inmediately after the goal Salah hit the post.

Liverpool didn't deserve this result, even more they probably deserved to win as they did a great game, but this is football and Barcelona with a horrible second half managed to overcome the Liverpool attack. And with the match already decided Barcelona had several opportunities to score more goals.

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