No club in Europe has a melody like You'll Never Walk Alone, and no club in the world has as many united fans. I sat there and saw those
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The fans, I got a chill down my back, 40,000 people forming an irresistible force behind their team, that's a trait that not some other teams can have- Johan Cruyff
England
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This is a city that is world-renowned for two things, one being The Beatles and the other being
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Liverpool FC.
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The soccer team is one of the most traditional and influential clubs in England, with 41 trophies in major tournaments. It has had its share of successes in the 1970s and 1980s, and has suffered from tragedies such as Heysel or Hillsborough. As the most famous team song in soccer, You'll Never Walk Alone, says, it's a melody that can be sung in both success and sorrow, and it's also a song about persistence and perseverance, which is perfect for the die-hard fans. Perfect for die-hard fans, and perfect for the 2005
European crown
final, those who were at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, the
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This is especially true for fans.
in those days
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In the finals, we'll face the Italian giants.
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The total number of
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, supposedly the strongest soccer team in the world at the time, compared to them on the ledger
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It's full of disadvantages in every way. But this game was
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together with
European crown
One of the greatest finals of all time, and people will keep talking about it in the future, I think because
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The manner in which that game was finally won made it significant, as Diego Maradona said: even that team that won the 1970
World Cup
The Brazilian team, which won the championship, was also unable to
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Reversal of a 3-0 lead!
Let's go back to that game. Kickoff.
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It was a slap in the face, because after only 53 seconds.
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Captain Paolo Maldini then scored the first goal for his team; in the 23rd minute, Reds midfielder Harry Kewell went off the field with a limp and an injury; just before halftime, the team from
England Premier Soccer League
Chelsea
Loanee Hernan Crespo scored two more goals in quick succession.
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Midfielder Steven Gerrard said:
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The first half was played very quickly, fluidly and intelligently. We were lucky to only be outplayed 3-0 before halftime. throughout the half we couldn't keep up with their tempo and we couldn't even get close to them!
at that time
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Rafael Benitez, the head coach of the team, saw his players walk off the field with their heads down, as if they found it difficult to even walk back to the locker room. His players have worked very hard over the past two weeks (they've beaten
Juventus, Italian football team
together with
Chelsea
), he had to make adjustments and changes that
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Need to change the pattern of the first half and become more aggressive.Benitez drew something on the board and said to the players: have confidence in yourselves! All we need is to score early, and if we can score early, that will change the game. And, you guys, listen.
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Already celebrating their win in the locker room now! That's a good thing for us!
Luis Garcia said that the players were sitting in the lounge and could clearly hear thousands of fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone, can you imagine what that was like? In the final of the Champions League, we were down 0-3, but we could still hear the 45,000 fans chanting to let us know that they still believed in us!
Benitez brought on Dietmar Hamann, and it proved to be a good move, as Hamann managed to clamp down on the
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In the 54th minute, John Arne Riise played the ball into Gerrard's path and he headed the ball into the top right corner of the net! Gerrard was seen returning to the defense and gesturing as if to tell his teammates, "Hey, we scored early! Don't give up! It's like he's telling the fans, "Hey, guys, look, we scored, don't give up! The rallying cry came when Vladimir Smicer, who had replaced Kewell, scored a second goal with a powerful shot from outside the penalty area! With
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The defense is starting to falter.
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The siege on Dida's goal, the precious, equalizing goal that came from Xabi Alonso's 12-yard penalty (although the first one was parried by Dida, but Alonso immediately added the shot into the net), the atmosphere of the whole stadium (including all the fans sitting in front of the TV to watch the broadcast, such as me) became very tense at that point, sometimes even so tense that you sometimes even so tense that you want to turn your back on the TV! For example
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Goalie Jerzy Dudek faced Andriy Shevchenko in overtime (cold-blooded killer on the field! Nuclear warhead!) Dudek made two consecutive saves on the final shot of the game. As the ball went over the crossbar, I thought to myself that today might actually be the day that
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of the day!
