Ucl: Liverpool-Manchester City 3-0 |As it happened...
MATCH PREVIEW:
- This will be the 10th Champions League knockout tie between English clubs in the Champions League, six of these have involved Liverpool (including this tie).
- Liverpool and Manchester City will meet for the 179th time in all competitions, but this will be their first-ever meeting in European competition.
- Jurgen Klopp has won five matches against Pep Guardiola in all competitions; more than any other manager (excluding shootouts). With two of these victories coming as Liverpool manager (in four attempts).
- Including qualifiers, this will be Liverpool’s 11th Champions League match this season – they are unbeaten in each of their previous 10 (W6 D4 L0) and kept a clean sheet in half of these (5).
- Liverpool haven’t lost a home match in European competition since October 2014 (0-3 vs Real Madrid) and are now unbeaten in 14 European games at Anfield (W9 D5 L0).
- Manchester City will be appearing in a Champions League quarter-final tie for only the second time – the first occasion was in 2015-16 when they progressed over two legs versus Paris Saint Germain, 3-2 on aggregate.
- Liverpool are the top scoring team in the Champions League this season following the quarter-final stage (28 goals).
- The record tally of goals by an English team in a single Champions League campaign is 32 by Manchester United in 2002-03, while Liverpool’s club record is 29 goals in 2007-08.
- Of the eight remaining sides in the Champions League 2017-18, Liverpool (25y 311d) and Manchester City (26y 134d) have had the youngest average starting XI’s in the competition this season.
- The two meetings between Liverpool and Manchester City so far this season have produced 12 goals in total, with 26% of the shots attempted scored (12/47).
- Leroy Sane has scored three goals in his two appearances against Liverpool so far in 2017-18.
- Sergio Aguero has scored in all four of his Champions League away appearances so far this season for Manchester City (four goals) – no player has scored in five away appearances in a single CL season for an English club.
- Roberto Firmino has been involved in 10 goals (seven goals, three assists) in the Champions League this season – only Cristiano Ronaldo has been involved in more goals (14).
- Mohamed Salah has had a hand in seven goals (six goals, one assist) in eight Champions League appearances so far this season. Before 2017-18, he’d scored three goals and assisted none in 15 appearances in the Champions League (for Roma, Chelsea and Basel combined).
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