Liverpool’s Sadio Mané was to send his former club Salzburg out of the uefa Champions League.
Liverpool played with a win of 2-0 over Salzburg ahead in the Champions League, while the austrians smoke out.
Thus was the Liverpool-senegaleseren Sadio Mané to send the club he played for from 2012 to 2014, out of the prestigious tournament.
– It is always nice to come back here. I love the club, the fans and the people here. Sorry friends, but this is football, and we must do our work, he says, according to the uefa.com to BT Sport.
Mané came not even on the board, but could see teammates Naby Keita and Mohamed Salah scoring the match’s two goals.
In periods wavy the fight, however, back and forth, and the austrians could with a little more sharpness have come to the front and put the ultimate pressure on Liverpool.
– I think it was a really hard battle. We expected also. We took us together in the second half and created many chances. Naby scored a wonderful goal against his former club. I’m happy on his behalf, and we deserved to win, says Sadio Mané.
Like Mané played Keita in the past of Salzburg. This he did from 2014 to 2016.
Liverpool went ahead from the group as gruppevinder, while Naples was second. Salzburg, which is the three to settle with a place in the playoff of the Europa League.
It is disappointing, highlights Salzburg-coach Jesse March.
– We are so disappointed, because we started so well in the tournament, and we played so well until the first goal (against Liverpool, red.).
– We saw the opponent’s quality from the first minute. We had two chances to play with (Hee-Chan, ed.) Hwang and (Erling Braut, ed.) Haaland, as we usually score on, but (Virgil, ed.) van Dijk was too good. It is disappointing, but I think that we in a few days we will look back on this with pride, he says, according to the uefa.com.
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