Liverpool and Spartak set for Anfield showdown
It is all to play for during Anfield on matchday 6 when Liverpool FC and FC Spartak Moskva accommodate with a place in a turn of 16 on a line.
• Liverpool lead a approach in Group E with 9 points, one some-more than Sevilla FC – who interpretation their debate divided to bottom side NK Maribor – and 3 forward of Spartak, who drew 1-1 with a Reds in Russia on matchday two.
• A pull would therefore be adequate for a home team, who will finish initial in a territory with a win or with a pull if Sevilla destroy to win. If Liverpool remove they are out unless Sevilla are also degraded as Liverpool, who let outing a 3-0 half-time lead to pull 3-3 in Spain final time out, would be next Spartak in a two-way head-to-head or would be third in a three-way head-to-head on 9 points.
• Spartak will be by with a win or third with any other result. If Spartak win they will finish tip unless Sevilla also win.
Previous meetings
• Liverpool had a top palm when these clubs were interconnected together in a 2002/03 initial organisation stage, winning 5-0 during home interjection to dual goals from Emile Heskey and one any for Bruno Cheyrou, Sami Hyypiä and surrogate Salif Diao.
• The line-ups during Anfield on 2 Oct 2002 were:
Liverpool: Dudek, Henchoz (Traoré 67), Carragher, Hyypiä, Riise, Hamann, Murphy, Gerrard (Diao 76), Cheyrou (Diouf 82), Heskey, Owen.
Spartak: Cherchesov, Kovtun (Abramidze 63), Kebe, Beschastnykh, Kalynychenko, Koudriashov (Marcello Silva 50), Danishevski, Pavlenko, Mitreski, Khlestov (Bezrodny 26), Moisés.
• The English side also prevailed 3-1 in Moscow, recuperating from Aleksandr Danishevski’s opener to take a points pleasantness of a Michael Owen hat-trick. That matchday 4 outcome reliable Spartak’s elimination – they would remove all 6 games – while Liverpool also unsuccessful to swell after entrance third in Group B.
• That was in contrariety to a teams’ assembly in a 1992/93 European Cup Winners’ Cup second round, when Spartak modernized 6-2 on aggregate. Valery Karpin struck twice in a 4-2 first-leg home win, before unanswered goals in a final half-hour during Anfield from Dmitri Radchenko and Andrei Piatnitsky hermetic Spartak’s progress.
Match background
Liverpool
• That better by Spartak – in what was their initial confront with Russian opponents – is Liverpool’s usually home detriment opposite a bar from that country; their record is W3 D2 L. Most recently they drew 1-1 during home to FC Rubin in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (also winning 1-0 away).Â
• Jürgen Klopp’s side have picked adult 4 points during home in this season’s competition, drawing 2-2 with Sevilla before a 3-0 scalp of Maribor.Â
• Before being hold by Sevilla, Liverpool’s prior 6 European games during Anfield had constructed a home win. They are dominant in their final 12 European home matches (W8 D4), given a 3-0 detriment to Real Madrid CF on 22 Oct 2014.
• Five-time European champions Liverpool did not take partial in UEFA foe in 2016/17, when they finished fourth in a Premier League. They are behest to strech a UEFA Champions League knockout rounds for a initial time given 2008/09.
• The Reds warranted their place in a organisation stage – for a tenth time overall – with a 6-3 play-off total feat over TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, winning 2-1 away and 4-2 during home.
Spartak
• Spartak have not won divided in Europe given a 1-0 success during AFC Ajax in their 2010/11 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 initial leg. Their record given reads D5 L5.
• Including that 1992 feat during Anfield, Spartak have won on 4 of their 9 trips to England (D1 L4), many recently a 1-0 delight during Blackburn Rovers FC in a 1995/96 organisation stage. Their divided record given afterwards is D1 L4; their final outing brought a 4-1 better during Chelsea FC in a 2010/11 organisation stage.Â
• The Russian bar are nonetheless to win divided in Group E, however, opening with a 1-1 pull during Maribor before a 2-1 retreat during Sevilla on matchday four.
• A 5-1 home win opposite Sevilla on matchday three halted Spartak’s nine-game run but a feat in European fixtures, home and away, given a 2-1 success over SL Benfica on 23 Oct 2012. Their record given afterwards was D4 L5.
• This is Spartak’s 12th organisation theatre campaign, and initial given 2012/13 when they came fourth in a territory also including FC Barcelona, Benfica and Celtic FC. They have not graced a final 16 given 2000/01, when they got to a second organisation stage.
• The Moscow bar competent automatically for a organisation theatre by lifting their 22nd joining pretension in 2016/17. Last term, their European debate finished during a initial hurdle, with defeat by AEK Larnaca FC in a UEFA Europa League third subordinate round.
Coach and actor links
• Klopp was in assign of a Borussia Dortmund organisation that kick FC Zenit 5-4 on total in a 2013/14 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 (4-2 away, 1-2 home).
• James Milner’s idea helped Manchester City FC to a 2-2 pull during PFC CSKA Moskva in a 2014/15 organisation stage.
• Simon Mignolet was in idea for Belgium in a 3-3 accessible pull divided to Russia in Mar 2017. Dmitri Kombarov, Denis Glushakov, Aleksandr Samedov and Roman Zobnin played for a hosts in Sochi.
• Emre Can was partial of Germany’s winning 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup patrol in Russia.
• International team-mates:
Georginio Wijnaldum Quincy Promes (Netherlands)
Dejan Lovren Mario Pašalić (Croatia)
Marko Grujić Marko Petković (Serbia)
Philippe Coutinho, Roberto Firmino Fernando, Luiz Adriano (Brazil)
• Petković and Grujić were also team-mates during FK Crvena zvezda between 2013 and 2016.