Liverpool vs Actual Madrid: Preview, Date, Time, TV channel, Reside Streaming

Vinicius Jr scored the one aim in Actual Madrid’s win over Liverpool within the Champions League ultimate final yr. AP

Anfield: With 20 Champions League titles between them, Liverpool vs Actual Madrid is a gathering of two European soccer greats.

Their round-of-16 match at Anfield on Tuesday can be a repeat of final yr’s ultimate in Paris, which noticed Madrid win the competitors for a record-extending 14th time after producing a sequence of unbelievable comebacks simply to make it to the European showpiece on the Stade de France.

“I nonetheless shake my head and scratch my head,” stated former England coach and BT Sport analyst Glenn Hoddle. “I coated each a type of video games and I nonetheless don’t understand how they gained it. They have been out.”

Madrid secured come-from-behind wins in opposition to Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester Metropolis in every of the knockout rounds earlier than beating Liverpool 1-0 within the ultimate.

“They have been like a boxer, they have been up in opposition to the ropes they usually have been midway down the ropes and also you’re considering the ref’s going to step in and cease the bout,” Hoddle stated. “I don’t know what occurred, they only stored going. They usually had that high quality.”

The place the Champions League is worried something appears doable for Madrid, who gained the trophy three years in a row from 2016-18 at a time when Barcelona have been dominating the Spanish title.

But when any workforce can rival Madrid’s skill to provide the sudden in European membership soccer’s most prized competitors, it’s Liverpool.

There was the well-known comeback from 3-0 down in opposition to AC Milan within the 2005 ultimate earlier than happening to win on penalties. And extra just lately the 4-3 combination win in opposition to Barcelona within the semifinals in 2019 after dropping 3-0 within the first leg on the Nou Camp.

Madrid, nonetheless, have felt like a step too far ever because the draw was made final November.

In any case, it is a Liverpool workforce that faces a combat simply to qualify for subsequent season’s competitors, not to mention win it this yr.

Jurgen Klopp has struggled to get his workforce firing after the departure of key ahead Sadio Mane to Bayern Munich final summer time and a number of accidents.

Forward of the first-leg match at Anfield, Klopp can at the very least be inspired by a latest upturn in type after back-to-back wins in opposition to Everton and Newcastle within the Premier League and targets from misfiring forwards Cody Gakpo and Darwin Nunez.

Immediately Liverpool look in competition once more for a Champions League-qualifying spot, sitting seven factors off fourth place Tottenham with two video games in hand.

Then there’s the Anfield issue, with an environment that noticed Barcelona wilt in that semifinals comeback and Manchester Metropolis repeatedly fall regardless of dominating English soccer lately.

Like Madrid’s followers, the Liverpool crowd believes nothing is past their workforce relating to Europe after successful the trophy six occasions.

Joe Cole performed for and in opposition to Liverpool and was a part of a Chelsea workforce that misplaced within the semifinals at Anfield in 2005 and 2007.

“It’s an enormous membership. It’s as massive a membership in world soccer as any and it’s bought an expectancy and the followers drive it,” stated the BT Sport analyst. “Within the floor they flip up for his or her workforce. It’s a sight to behold to play for or in opposition to them.”

However Cole questions whether or not Liverpool can overcome this Madrid workforce, which just lately gained the Membership World Cup.

“They’ve bought a job on their arms,” Cole stated. “This Actual Madrid workforce is definitely higher than the workforce that gained it final yr, I imagine. They’ve improved. The younger gamers coming by way of are going to be higher and the older gamers are nonetheless doing it.”

Madrid additionally beat Liverpool within the ultimate of 2018 and gained when the edges met within the quarterfinals two years in the past.

Watch the LIVE protection of the UEFA Champions League – Liverpool vs Actual Madrid on Sony Sports activities Ten 2, Sony Sports activities Ten 3 (Hindi) & Sony Sports activities Ten 4 (Tamil & Telugu) channels at 1:30 am IST on twenty second February 2023.

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