Looking a bit unlikely now, with Ajax up 1-0 after 10 minutes, and 2-0 in the aggregate.
I’m a Liverpool fan, and I’ve always liked the Scousers, but it’s pretty easy to be respectful and classy when you’ve just clobbered the other guys 4-0.
OK, so can someone talk me through this?
Liverpool were magnificent last night but the surprise was not the 4-0 but the fact that they were 3-0 down because honestly they were much the better team over the two legs. Still, massively exciting to watch.
Then Spurs find themselves 3-0 down on aggregate after being the lesser team for all three halves played and they needed to score 3 goals themselves, without reply, and somehow they did it. It may be that the Spurs performance in the second half there is even more remarkable than Liverpool last night.
Football, bloody hell! They have been two incredible nights of football.
I’m predicting an attritional 0-0 final. 
Good lord
I think it was. They were away, hadn’t yet scored once, and needed all three to avoid losing, where Liverpool were even after scoring 2. Plus the lateness of the last one. Just amazing.
Yeah, going into the game last night I had a feeling that Liverpool had the game to trouble Barca (as they did in the first leg). They’ve been solid all year, creative, fast and incisive. And let’s not forget that Barca imploding is not unknown. If Messi misfires they are in bother.
But tonight I didn’t see anything at half time that suggested a comeback. Spurs had been dropping off in form the last few weeks, running out of steam and without Kane, their talisman. But wow! well done to them.
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur! That was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen!
Lucas Mora is my new favorite player in professional football, for at least the next week.
COYS!
Wow, that was quite the reversal of fortune. Two great comebacks (albeit of slightly different types) in two days.
So, I’m taking the train over to Liverpool tomorrow to watch the last matches of the year. This should be amazing, funny to think that I was angry because I won’t be here for Eurovision finals. I think the football will be more interesting.
Are you actually at the game, or just soaking it up (literally and figuratively) in the pubs?
So, EPL teams make up all four of the European trophy finalists this season - Liverpool vs Tottenham in Champions League, and Chelsea vs Arsenal in the Europa League. This is the first time ever in European competition that all four finalists have come from the same country. I thought Trent Alexander-Arnold’s ingenuity to get the goal in the Liverpool game may have been the highlight of the week.
It’s the final day of the EPL tomorrow. It’s incredible that Liverpool may end the season with 97 points, having been beaten only once in thirty-eight games, and still finish second.
The poor form of the teams chasing the Champions League spots has also been really odd, considering it’s the business end of the season. Spurs have accrued just 10 out of last 33 points available, and will end the season having lost more than a third of their matches. Arsenal, incredibly, found themselves in pole position a few weeks ago to claim the third space spot, behind Man City and Liverpool, but they then suddenly had a crash in form against some very beatable teams and got only four points out of eighteen available. Manchester United have accrued eight points out of the last twenty-four available, while Chelsea are doing slightly better with fifteen points out of the last twenty-seven. For comparison, Liverpool took all of the last twenty-four points available, while Man City have taken all thirty-nine of the last available points!
At the pub, and definitely will be doing a lot of soaking!
Well, it is what it is. Liverpool can still win the Champions League and I think they will. It was an amazing year for Liverpool in the Premier League and they would have won in any other year.
This is the third time in 10 years that “they should have won it”.
They are also the only team in the last 15 years to lead the League at Christmas and not win it. And they’ve now done that three times too.
As a Liverpool fan, I find it a little frustrating. Still, I can’t complain too much about this season. They were great.
I’m surprised they don’t have a 4 team playoff just for the money grab. And yes I know they have other tournaments for the 4 top teams.
Its the fourth European Cup final for them in 15 years. More than any other English side. They have won the league, zilch times since then.
Tragic tragic. Should have been Liverpool’s year. They missed out on the title by two inches months ago. The first on a 1-inch goal scored by Man City and the second on a should-have-been Liverpool ball that didn’t cross the line.
Question from layman American here: If it is considered more meaningful to win the Champions League than the Premier League, by how much? Like 2x as meaningful?
Well, what an amazing year of footie it has turned out to be!
Props to my Foxes for finishing in the upper half of the table, even if it does feel like failing to live up to their potential. I hope Brendan Rogers sticks around for a while. I really think that we could have taken a shot at 6th if we’d played the whole season with him at the helm.
The Champions League and Europa League semi-final results are just amazing. English soccer is experiencing a true high right now.
I didn’t really care which of the two teams (the Reds or the Sky Blues) won the Premier League. I just wish that Leicester had managed to hold on just that little be longer to keep the same 0-0 result against City that we got today against Chelsea. But I have to admit that Kompany’s screaming upper-90 shot was a true golaza, and deserved to be remembered as the shot that won them the title.
Now, if only something miraculous happens in the FA Cup final…