Liverpool are now overwhelming favourites to reach the Champions League final”It’s impossible… but now you’re thinking, can it happen?”Liverpool moved to within eight games of “immortality” in the shape of an unprecedented English quadruple after beating Villarreal 2-0 in the Champions League semi-final first leg.The only negative for the Reds was that they should have won by more in a completely convincing performance.Their goals came in quick succession through a Pervis Estupinan own goal and Sadio Mane.The winners will face either Liverpool’s Premier League title rivals Manchester City or La Liga champions-elect Real Madrid in the final. So can the Reds really win all four trophies, what did boss Jurgen Klopp make of the win and do Villarreal have a chance at home next week?’Premier League has two of modern era’s greatest sides’Reaction to Liverpool’s first-leg winIs quadruple dream on?Liverpool 2-0 Villarreal: Jurgen Klopp ‘loved’ first-leg goalsManchester United, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Ajax and PSV have all won the treble of European Cup, league title and domestic cup.Celtic’s ‘Lisbon Lions’ went one further, also winning their league cup in 1967 – the only team to have completed a quadruple.But Liverpool – who have already won the Carabao Cup – are in the running to become the first English side to achieve this feat.”That’s got to be the aim,” said former England defender Rio Ferdinand on BT Sport.”They are going to set themselves the target. If they achieve it, they’re immortal, they are above anyone that has played the game… Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport
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