Ucl: Manchester City-Liverpool 1-2 |Klopp's team progress to the next round...
MATCH PREVIEW:
- Only two teams in Champions League history have overturned a 3+ goal deficit from the first leg in the knockout stages – Deportivo vs Milan in 2003-04 and Barcelona vs PSG last season.
- Manchester City won their home league game against Liverpool 5-0 this season – their only win in their last nine games against them in all competition (D2 L6).
- Liverpool could become the first team to beat Manchester City three times in the same season since Manchester United in 2009-10.
- Man City have only lost one of their last 13 Champions League home games (W9 D3), though it was in the last round against FC Basel (1-2).
- The Reds are unbeaten in their last five Champions League away games (W2 D3). They last went six without defeat on the road in the competition between March-December 2005, during which time they won the trophy.
- Liverpool have scored more goals than any other side in this season’s Champions League (31). Man Utd (32 in 2002-03) are the only English team to score more in a single season in the competition.
- Four of the six previous teams to have eliminated a side managed by Pep Guardiola in the Champions League have gone on to win the trophy, with the exceptions being Atletico Madrid in 2015-16 and Monaco in 2016-17.
- Liverpool’s James Milner has provided more assists than any other player in the Champions League this season (7).
- Meanwhile, only Cristiano Ronaldo (17) has been directly involved in more goals in the competition than Roberto Firmino (11 – 7 goals, 4 assists).
- Jurgen Klopp has beaten Pep Guardiola more often than any other manager (six wins).
- Pep Guardiola has only lost both legs of a Champions League knockout tie once before – with Bayern Munich against Real Madrid in the 2013-14 semi-finals.
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