Brendan Rodger’s Liverpool started this game with the intensity of a hurricane, but couldn’t convert their opening 10 minutes of whirlwind football into a goal. And once Real Madrid came into the game there was only ever going to be one winner.
The opening goal was a marvel of passing and movement – the type of football forever linked with Liverpool. But the one-two in this case came from James and Ronaldo, slicing through the Liverpool defence, before the Portuguese striker, still under pressure, finished sublimely past a despairing Mignolet.
Liverpool faded fast and Benzema made it 2-0 with a cute header from a neat Kroos cross, the ball looping over Mignolet and into the far side of the net. And it was the Frenchman who also got the third, stabbing home after the Liverpool defence fell to pieces, with the defenders ball- watching and Mignolet bizarrely coming for the ball with feet not hands.
Liverpool improved somewhat in the second half, with Lallana on for Balotelli, who had been missing in action in the first half, but the damage had been done and Madrid were comfortable to soak up everything Liverpool could throw at them and go looking for the fourth. Ronaldo should have scored it, but managed to find Mignolet’s feet when he was one on one with the keeper.
Madrid top Group B on 9 points, with the other teams all on 3, after Basel were beaten by Ludogorets.
from Últimas noticias | Diario AS http://as.com/diarioas/2014/10/22/english/1414011016_961851.html
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