OPINION
Liverpool centre back Joel Matip produced another fine performance in Liverpool’s 4-0 win over Barcelona in their Champions League semi final second leg at Anfield on Tuesday night. The Cameroonian has come on leaps and bounds since the turn of the year and is arguably playing close to the level of his centre half partner Virgil van Dijk these days. He’s not the inimitable Dutchman, of course, but he is in wonderful form and that continued against Ernesto Valverde’s side. He made a tremendous challenge on Lionel Messi in the first half when the Argentine great looked to be in, with the former Schalke man making use of those spider-like limbs of his to deny the Barca star. Matip isn’t someone who you generally think of as being vitally important to this Liverpool team, but you can see the difference when Dejan Lovren plays ahead of him. Matip is crucial for Jurgen Klopp’s side at the moment and we saw just why on Tuesday.
Live4Liverpool has rounded up some of the best tweets below.
https://twitter.com/OllieLFC17/status/1125842296971329542
Matip > Lovren every week
— ? (@lfckristian) May 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/LFCSuIIy/status/1125842228365152257
https://twitter.com/Peter_K91/status/1125842332694265857
Give matip life time contract!!
— jimmymillie7 (@jimmymillie7) May 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/AbdxlA/status/1125842399794692098
https://twitter.com/MrSadioMane/status/1125842438600347648
Spider-Matip is winning everything
— Linkgooding (@LinkGooding) May 7, 2019
Matip stopped a certain goal there, so so important
— SoNu (@evolunos) May 7, 2019
Matip is playing like VVD
VVD playing like God
Not sure if i come across as being biased towards our players ??
— LFC Pain In The Ass (@FunFootballer) May 7, 2019
