SSN BET - Match of the Day: Liverpool - PSG / 18.09.2018

Hello! Well, we waited for the beginning of the Champions League and today will be the first matches, some of which will be with the prefix "super". So, for example, a finalist of last season will take on his field a club that has long been trying with the help of huge cash spending to succeed in this tournament - PSG. After the draw, the main star of the French club, Neymar said that he does not consider the Merseyside as favorites of the tournament, but he did not take much into account and today Liverpool has a chance to teach the lesson to Parisians.

LIVERPOOL

Last season of the Champions League Liverpool was a "dark horse", no one seriously considered the English club as one of the possible finalists of the eurocup. Nevertheless, the Merseyside club has spent almost the best season in the last decade reaching the Champions League final. On the way to the final, Jurgen Klopp's team lost once, it happened in the second leg against Roma. However, this was preceded by the championship in qualifying group E (three wins, three draws, the ratio of goals 23-6). In the playoffs, players Jurgen Klopp defeated the "dragons" in Porto (5-0) and played with them on the "Anfield Road". Then twice defeated Manchester City in the English quarterfinal derby. In the semifinals, the British played openly with Roma, for which they nearly paid, but in the end, with a total score of 7-6, the Roman club was held. In the current Premier League championship, the Merseyside share the leadership with the "retired". Having scored a maximum of points in five matches of the championship, the hosts of today's match only missed the ball twice. The last success is especially valuable - the Champions League finalists won at Wembley Tottenham with a score of 1-2.

PSG

Last season, Paris Saint Germain performed under the leadership of Unai Emery. The Spanish coach collected all the national trophies (the French Super Cup, the French Cup, the gold of the League1), but did not go beyond the 1/8 finals of the Champions League. Exactly one year ago Parisians were considered the main favorites of the tournament. Before the winter, the French football grandee was fulfilling expectations. The first place in Group B, the equality of points with Bayern and the superiority over the Germans on additional indicators. The victory over the champion of Germany 3-0 accelerated the resignation of coach Carlo Ancelotti. The then vice-champion of France crossed into the playoffs with Real Madrid and lost to him at home and home. In the current League 1, the current champion is no worse than his opponent. All five bouts ended in his favor with seventeen goals scored and four missed. The difference is only in the level of the tournament, in which teams act.

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STATISTICS AND PERSONAL MEETINGS

• Liverpool scored and missed in the last four matches of the Champions League, as well as PSG.
• In the national championships, both clubs won five wins in a row.
• In three of Liverpool's five games, the goal was scored after the 78th minute.
• In four matches PSG from five goals was hammered after the 78th minute.
• In April 1997, Liverpool defeated PSG at home (2-0) and lost to him in Paris (3-0).

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Liverpool this season has changed, in the defense of the team finally things are put in order, on the last frontier is now an excellent goalkeeper, so to expect in this match many goals are pretty presumptuous. But the test of the defense of the "reds" today is going to be a serious, at the forefront of the PSG attack, the best forwards of the world - Edinson Cavani, Neymar, Kilian Mbappe. All are healthy and ready to play. The question remains about the participation in this match of Roberto Firmino, the Brazilian escaped a serious injury in the match with the "spurs", but it seems that Jurgen Klopp will be able to find a replacement for him.

Liverpool - PSG Total Less 3 with 1,71 for 5% of bank

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