Liverpool felt how hard it is to break into Atletico Madrid’s Goal.

DBasia.news –  Atletico Madrid managed to reap victory over Liverpool in the first leg of the top 16 of the 2019-20 Champions League at Wanda Metropolitano, Wednesday (19/02) AM. The victory was thanks to manager, Diego Simeone.

Atletico Madrid only had 27 percent of ball possession, seven attempted kicks, and two of them are on target. Whereas Liverpool had 73 of percent possession, eight attempted kicks, and none on target to test Jan Oblak, Atletico’s goalkeeper.

“Atletico Madrid won against Liverpool even though they only had 27.5 percent possession, the lowest by the team that won the Champions League knockout phase since Basel in March 2018 (against Manchester City),” Squawka said.

Liverpool were made unable to release a single shot on target for the first time this season. Mohamed Salah was even isolated and had difficulty passing the ball to work with Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane in the first 25 minutes of the match.

Difficulties experienced by Liverpool showed the efficacy of Atletico’s classic playing style directed by Diego Simeone. During his nine years in building Atletico’s squad, Simeone was consistent with his clear football ideas.

The idea is: stay neat, strong at the back, play aggressively, and rely on counterattacks and set pieces to score goals. Saul scored a goal that added to his goal in the Champions League to 10 goals in his career.

Saul is only one goal adrift of Antoine Griezmann’s six goals, former Atletico Madrid, who became the Atletico player with the highest number of goals in the Champions League knockout phase.

Nevertheless, Atletico cannot quickly become complacent as the second leg will take place at a haunted base for their opponents, Anfield. A warning was given by Andrew Robertson, Liverpool’s left back, to Los Colchoneros.

“The corner kicks bounce, the situation is tight but onside. We give them the best start and have the support of their own fans,” said Andrew Robertson, as reported by BT Sport.

“We showed a pretty good performance and we know we can do better. We still have a second leg to turn things around.”

“They celebrated after the game as if they had just escaped. They will visit Anfield and we know the fans will be there,” added the Scottish defender.

The second leg will take place at Anfield. Liverpool will try to reverse the situation behind the aggregate 0-1 goal from Atletico in the match which took place on Thursday (12/03) 3:00 AM.