Brilliant Bundesliga omen & Mo Salah looking to beat last season’s haul – Liverpool FC

Liverpool play their 224th sport within the European Cup/Champions League after they face RB Leipzig tonight; listed below are the perfect stats as we search our 128th victory.

Euro path

Leipzig will turn into the Reds’ 133rd totally different European opponent and the third this season they’re assembly for the primary time.

That is the tenth season from 13 makes an attempt that the Reds have reached this stage of the Champions League.

The Reds went out of this competitors at this stage final season being defeated house and away by Atletico Madrid. The house sport was the final time Liverpool performed in entrance of a capability crowd.

The Reds have performed 5 occasions in Hungary in Europe. Their solely win got here on their final go to when David Ngog scored the one aim of the win in opposition to Debrecen within the 2009/10 Champions League group stage. They’ve scored twice within the 5 video games and conceded two.

Reds in opposition to Jurgen’s homeland

Liverpool have met golf equipment from Germany on 44 events, successful 22, drawing 15 and shedding seven.

The Reds haven’t misplaced any of their final 10 legs of a tie in opposition to golf equipment from Germany, successful seven and drawing three. The final loss got here with the 4-2 reversal at Bayer Leverkusen in 2002.

Leipzig would be the thirteenth German group to face the Reds in European competitors.

On the final two events the Reds have confronted German opponents at this stage of the competitors they’ve gone on to win the Champions League. They defeated Bayer Leverkusen in each legs in 2005 and eradicated Bayern Munich in 2019.

Numbers and cautions

Liverpool are three targets wanting recording their 250th in European competitors because the away group.

They want 4 targets to report 100 on this competitors underneath Jurgen Klopp.

Georginio Wijnaldum and James Milner will miss the second leg ought to both of them obtain a yellow card.

Mo Salah has scored six targets in his final six video games in league and cup. He scored 23 in all competitions final season from 48 video games; he has 23 this season already from 33.

Roberto Firmino began simply one of many Reds’ group video games, however performed in all six.

Acquainted faces

Naby Keita was a Leipzig participant from 2016-18, scoring 17 in 71 appearances.

Peter Gulacsi spent 5 years at Anfield with out making a first-team look – however was on the bench 50 occasions.

Kevin Kampl performed underneath Jurgen Klopp within the 2014/15 marketing campaign.

Hwang Hee-chan scored at Anfield in final season’s Champions League as a Salzburg participant.

Leipzig

33-year-old Julian Nagelsmann has confronted Liverpool earlier than in Europe. He was the coach of Hoffenheim when his group misplaced 6-3 on mixture in a Champions League qualifier in August 2017.

Within the vote for final season’s UEFA Coach of the 12 months he was positioned third.

Leipzig conceded extra fouls than another group within the group section (111).

They’ve met English golf equipment of their two earlier group stage campaigns.

Final season they beat Tottenham house and away, whereas this season they misplaced 5-0 at Manchester United earlier than eliminating United from the Champions League with a 3-2 house win of their last group fixture.

They’ve received every of their final 4 video games in all competitions, conceding simply as soon as, and have discovered the web in all of their final 10 outings.

Scorers this season

Leipzig: Poulsen 9, Angelino 8, Forsberg 5, Nkunku 5, Sabitzer 5, Haidara 4, Olmo 4, Orban 4, Mukiele 3, Halstenberg 2, Kluivert 2, Sorloth 2, Adams 1, Hwang Hee-chan 1, Konate 1, Upamecano 1, personal targets 1.

Liverpool: Salah 23, Mane 10, Jota 9, Firmino 6, Minamino 4, Jones 3, Wijnaldum 3, Alexander-Arnold 1, Grujic 1, Henderson 1, Matip 1, Origi 1, Robertson 1, Shaqiri 1, van Dijk 1, personal targets 3.