In a mist of something immeasurable, City was submissive
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They arrived late in the late afternoon, three hours before the first Judgment signal. They filled every free centimeter that stood before them. When there was no more space on the ground, they climbed up the traffic lights and crashed across the walls.
Where the Ackles boulevard flows into Anfield and Liverpool`s stadium suddenly shows up in the sky, they take out their banners, waving their flags and singing their songs.
Two hours earlier, they had already lit so many torches and smokes that the smell of cordit spread across the Lowe Boulevard, almost a kilometer from the stadium, and the sky looked painted in red, something burning.
Then, just over an hour before the start of the match, their hour came. The bus from the Manchester City team appeared first around the corner and began its slow, nervous procession toward Anfield, guarded by a bunch of policemen. A thick layer of red smoke filled the air. Bombs blew up. The pyrotechnics was put into action, and the mist pierced the sodium light. Fly bottles and beer boxes, several of which crashed into the windows of the bus. And from the tops of the traffic lights and from the walls came a powerful sound wave, a battle call.
Then came a few minutes of peace before the Liverpool bus appeared. More smoke, more flames, still a glimpse, but this festive time, as a hymn of praise.
It did not last for more than a few minutes, while the bus with the hosts` coaches and coaches did not disappear in the calm of the stadium. The job was done. Flags were removed and the flames quenched. However, the electrical charge remained intact.
Ever since Liverpool has fought against Manchester City in the Champions League quarterfinals, these minutes before the start of the game itself were the focus of intense debates, dragging the attention of the big unknown in the clash of two matches. City is obviously technically over Liverpool:his position at the top of Premier League, where he can be crowned champion this Saturday, is a convincing proof of this.
Joe Guardiola`s team, however, is not as emotionally bound to the biggest club tournament as Liverpool is. It is not the weight of history in European football. He has not yet acquired the immunity to the extreme hardships that this race can offer you, at least in certain places. How he would handle under the lights in the bear, the den, as Anfield, according to theories would decide the outcome of the collision. And the test of character would begin even at the corner of the Achesles and Anfield boulevards.
Not that City was very happy about that. The club by fixed matches expressed its concern to Merseyside`s local police on riot risk. Instead of canceling a welcome welcome, however, law enforcement officials decided to change the route on the bus in the hope of controlling the events.
It did not work. Throwed items caused enough damage to the vehicle to ask guests to come back home again. The first bus, Guardiola said, was destroyed and unable to take the distance back to the base in Man
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