Saul Niguez Rated Playing at Anfield Not Difficult

DBasia.news – Atletico Madrid became the team that could stop Liverpool’s winning streak at Anfield this season. Uniquely, the match was not the hardest for Atletico midfielder Saul Niguez.

Los Rojiblancos beat Liverpool 3-2 in the second leg of the Champions League last 16, last March. In that match, Atletico were two goals behind before finishing their comeback by strafing Liverpool with three goals in extra time to qualify with a 4-2 aggregate.

Not only advancing to the next round, Atletico helped stop Liverpool’s superiority at home in the Champions League. The last time the Reds fell at Anfield was when they gave up 0-3 at the hands of Real Madrid in October 2014.

Even so, Saul revealed that he had experienced a harder match than the trip to Merseyside. It was a match at Bayern Munich in the Champions League semi-final second leg, which the home team won 2-1, in May 2016. But Atletico ousted Bayern 2-2 on aggregate, the result of an away productivity goal advantage.

“Anfield is indeed a very difficult match, it is something we already know,” Saul told Atletico’s official website. “It wasn’t a match where I suffered the most on the field, where I said: ‘How bad are we?’

“In Munich, I had a very difficult time. I had said to myself: ‘We will not get out of here alive’.

“At Anfield, I have confidence in the team, we have a lot of opportunities. Jan Oblak is very, very good … We did not have many opportunities at the start but once they scored the first goal, we knew they would attack us and we had a gap to hurt them,” Saul said.