Fireworks against Real Madrid who will face Liverpool in England for the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League

In the best South American style, fans of the liverpool they were trying to annoy the players of the real Madrid that they will face their team this Tuesday in the first leg of the round of 16 Champions League which will be held in Anfield. It is a classic of European football and both were the last finalists of this competition which had the Spaniards as winners and for this merit they played the Club World Cup they just won This is how the red team fans used an old trick imported from the other side of the world.

A video that went viral showed a series of fireworks near the hotel where the merengue team is staying. They launched them in the early morning and with this noise the English wanted to avoid a good rest for the rival footballers. It is a typical South American action that is usually used in Brazil with visiting actors, although fans from other countries in the region have also adopted it.

It is common to see in the match preview of Libertadores Cup there South American Cup how do you try to prevent players from other teams from sleeping well and then this affects their performance on the field of play.

It can also happen that the fireworks are launched directly at the entrance of the hotel as happened with the tornadoes of the Flamengo that in December 2017 they went to where the campus of Independent approaching the South American final and they threw flash bombs. However, the Red ended up being crowned maracana. In other cases generate noise such as shouting or insults in the venue to seek to intimidate the rival team.

Scene from the 2022 final. Luis Díaz observes Luka Modric (EFE/EPA/MOHAMMED BADRA)
Scene from the 2022 final. Luis Díaz observes Luka Modric (EFE/EPA/MOHAMMED BADRA)

However, in Europe, there was a precedent last year before the clash in Istanbul between the Galatasaray and the Barcelonain which Turkish fans set off fireworks near the hotel where the Barça team had gathered in an attempt to wake up and disturb the players the day before a match for the Europa League.

Beyond this type of action, there will be an atmosphere of excitement at Anfield this Tuesday as Liverpool supporters usually give it a particular color each time they come to support their team and another full stadium is expected, who has capacity for 54,000 viewers. This duel will be one of the two with which the Champions League activity will continue and the other will be the one played by the Frankfurt and the Naples Germany.

Liverpool will host Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League Round of 16. The English will seek revenge after losing the previous season’s final in Paris, while the Spaniards will seek to maintain their supremacy on the continent and continue their way to the fifteenth orejona, while the British will try to win for the seventh time in the most important club tournament in the Old World. They last had it in 2019.

History has Real Madrid as favourites, who also eliminated them in the 2020/2021 edition of the Champions League in the quarter-finals (3-1 victory at the Santiago Bernabéu then a 0-0 draw at Anfield) . They had already met in another final of this tournament, in 2017/2018, in Kiev, during which the Iberian cast took revenge on the decisive match of the 1980/1981 exercise, where the English had won 3-1.

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