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Europa League | Semi-Finals
May 5, 2016 at 8.05pm UK
 
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Jurgen Klopp hails "wonderful night" for Liverpool

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp airs his delight at seeing his side overcome Villarreal in the semi-finals of the Europa League to set up a meeting with Sevilla.

Jurgen Klopp has praised Liverpool's "brilliant" performance after seeing his side book their place in the final of the Europa League.

The Reds, trailing by an Adrian Lopez goal heading into Thursday evening's return match with Villarreal, largely dominated the second leg and came out on top comfortable 3-1 aggregate winners in the end.

Strikes from Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana in the second half, coming after Bruno Soriano had opened the scoring with an own goal seven minutes in, was more than enough for Liverpool to seal their place in this month's final against Sevilla.

Klopp was delighted by the spirit shown by his side, which will now seen their season prolonged by another few days as he prepares for the May 18 showdown at St Jakob Park.

"It was a wonderful night; a brilliant game from my side," he told BT Sport. "What a performance. The first half-hour was a big emotion. It was great. The last 15 minutes of the first half we lost patience.

"The second-half plan was to keep going with the emotional football but using the brain a bit more and in the end brilliant. Everyone spoke a lot about this team before I came here - all about quality and not good transfers.

"I came here because I thought they had a nice squad but now we are in the final - a longer season! We go to Basel, where we'll take 50k, 60k - maybe 100k. It is a nice city by the way, close to my home."

Sevilla secured their passage into the final by seeing off Shakhtar Donetsk 5-3 over two legs in the other final-four affair.

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