Liverpool and Manchester City face European first
Liverpool FC and Manchester City FC are holding their Premier League adversary onto a European theatre during they accommodate for a initial time in general foe in a UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.
• While a home side have copiousness of knowledge opposite associate English clubs in Europe, this is their initial European Cup quarter-final in 9 years – and usually City’s second ever.
• This is a 17th time English clubs have been interconnected together in UEFA competition, and while City have been concerned in usually one of those prior ties, this is a tenth domestic event for Liverpool in a European arena, including 5 of a 9 UEFA Champions League knockout contests.
• No English bar has won a home UEFA Champions League knockout proviso diversion given Leicester City FC’s 2-0 better of Sevilla FC in final season’s turn of 16 – a run of 6 matches including all 5 in this season’s final 16 (D2 L3). There have usually been 3 wins by Premier League clubs in a final 17 knockout home matches over a past 4 seasons (D6 L8).
Previous meetings
• While this is a initial Liverpool-City diversion in Europe, a teams have met on 178 occasions in English football. Liverpool have won 87 of those contests to City’s 45, with 46 draws.
• In this season’s Premier League, City were 5-0 winners in Manchester on 9 September. Sergio Agüero gave a home side a 24th-minute lead and, after a visitors had mislaid Sadio Mané to a red label following a plea on City goalkeeper Ederson, serve strikes possibly side of half-time from Gabriel Jesus and a late Leroy Sané double finished an eventually gentle win.
• Liverpool incited a tables on City during Anfield on 14 January, inflicting a initial – and so distant usually – better of a Premier League deteriorate on Josep Guardiola’s side with a 4-3 feat in an epic encounter. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain gave a Reds an early lead and, yet Sané leveled shortly before half-time, 3 goals in 10 second-half mins from Roberto Firmino, Mané and Mohamed Salah put Liverpool 4-1 up. They indispensable that pillow after Bernardo Silva and Ä°lkay GündoÄŸan struck in a final 6 minutes, holding on for a noted win.
• This is a sides’ third two-legged knockout tie. Liverpool won both prior encounters, both in a English League Cup semi-finals: 2-1 on total in 1980/81 and 3-2 in 2011/12. On both occasions, a Merseyside bar went on to win a trophy.
Match background
Liverpool
• Liverpool have won 9 of their prior 13 European Cup quarter-finals:
2008/09 Chelsea FC L 5-7 (1-3 h, 4-4 a)
2007/08 Arsenal FC W 5-3 (1-1 a, 4-2 h)
2006/07 PSV Eindhoven W 4-0 (3-0 a, 1-0 h)
2004/05 Juventus W 2-1 (2-1 h, 0-0 a)
2001/02 Bayer 04 Leverkusen L 3-4 (1-0 h, 2-4 a)
1984/85 FK Austria Wien W 5-2 (1-1 a, 4-1 h)
1983/84 SL Benfica W 5-1 (1-0 h, 4-1 a)
1982/83 Widzew Åódź L 3-4 (0-2 a, 3-2 h)
1981/82 PFC CSKA Sofia L 1-2 (1-0 h, 0-2 a)
1980/81 PFC CSKA Sofia W 6-1 (5-1 h, 1-0 a)
1977/78 SL Benfica W 6-2 (2-1 a, 4-1 h)
1976/77 AS Saint-Étienne W 3-2 (0-1 a, 3-1 h)
1964/65 1. FC Köln W 2-2, Liverpool won on silver toss (0-0 a, 0-0 h, 2-2 n)
• Liverpool have played 8 prior two-legged knockout ties opposite associate English sides, with a total record W5 L3. Most recently they kick City’s internal rivals Manchester United FC in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 (2-0 home, 1-1 away), Firmino scoring in a initial diversion during Anfield.
• The Reds have played 6 European Cup ties opposite domestic rivals, commencement opposite Nottingham Forest FC in a 1978/79 initial turn (0-2 away, 0-0 home).
• Their remaining 5 all-English ties have all come in a UEFA Champions League era:
2004/05 semi-finals: Chelsea FC W 1-0 (0-0 a, 1-0 h)
2006/07 semi-finals: Chelsea FC W 4-1pens (0-1 a, 1-0 h aet)
2007/08 quarter-finals: Arsenal FC W 5-3 (1-1 a, 4-2 h)
2007/08 semi-finals: Chelsea FC L 3-4 (1-1 h, 2-3 a aet)
2008/09 quarter-finals: Chelsea FC L 5-7 (1-3 h, 4-4 a)
• Liverpool also played out dual goalless draws opposite Chelsea in a 2005/06 organisation stage.
• Their record opposite associate English clubs in Europe altogether is therefore W5 D8 L5; during home it is W5 D3 L1, that 2009 Chelsea retreat a solitary defeat.
• Jürgen Klopp’s side are dominant during home in this season’s UEFA Champions League, picking adult 7 points during home in a organisation stage. They drew 2-2 with Sevilla FC before a 3-0 scalp of NK Maribor and wrapped adult initial place in Group E with a 7-0 dismantling of FC Spartak Moskva. In a turn of 16, a 5-0 success during FC Porto preceded a goalless second leg during Anfield.
• Before being hold by Sevilla, Liverpool’s prior 6 European games during Anfield had constructed a home win. They are dominant in their final 14 European home matches (W9 D5), given a 3-0 detriment to Real Madrid on 22 Oct 2014.
Manchester City
• This is usually Manchester City’s second European Cup quarter-final:
2015/16 Paris Saint-Germain W 3-2 (2-2 a, 1-0 h)
• They have played usually one prior tie opposite a associate English club. In a 1970/71 European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-finals, holders City mislaid 1-0 both divided and home to Chelsea.
• Having won their initial 5 games in this season’s competition, City mislaid 2-1 during FC Shakhtar Donetsk on matchday six. They had formerly won 4-0 during Feyenoord and 4-2 during SSC Napoli.
• In a turn of 16, City won 4-0 during FC Basel 1893 in a initial leg, going by notwithstanding a 2-1 retreat in a home return.
• City have therefore available their dual biggest divided wins in a UEFA Champions League correct this season, during Feyenoord and Basel. In addition, their biggest home win is final season’s 4-0 organisation better of VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, while they were 5-0 victors at Romania’s Fotbal Club FCSB in final season’s play-offs – definition their 4 biggest wins in a competition, subordinate included, have all come underneath Guardiola.
• City, however, did not win divided in final season’s foe proper, losing during AS Monaco FC (1-3) and FC Barcelona (0-4) and sketch during Celtic FC (3-3) and Mönchengladbach (1-1). They have won usually 4 of their final 11 European divided fixtures (D3 L4).
• The Barcelona compare was City’s biggest European defeat, home or away.
Coach and actor links
• Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp crossed paths 8 times between 2013 and 2015 as coaches of FC Bayern München and Borussia Dortmund respectively, Guardiola recording 4 wins to Klopp’s three. That enclosed a 2-0 delight in a 2014 German Cup final, while Dortmund came out on tip in a German Super Cup in both 2013 and 2014. The drawn tie came in a 2015 German Cup semi-final; Dortmund went by 2-0 on penalties.
• Since Klopp and Guardiola found themselves in antithesis in England, Liverpool have won both home games opposite City, with a pull and a home win in a clubs’ Manchester fixtures.
• Klopp’s Dortmund kick City 1-0 in Germany after a 1-1 divided pull in a 2012/13 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• GündoÄŸan done 80 Bundesliga appearances underneath Klopp during Dortmund, scoring 9 goals, between 2011 and a coach’s 2015 departure. The midfielder was partial of a patrol that won a fasten and crater double in 2011/12, and scored a chastisement in Dortmund’s better by Bayern in a 2013 UEFA Champions League final.
• Raheem Sterling scored 18 goals in 95 Premier League games for Liverpool between 2012 and 2015, when he sealed for City.
• James Milner spent 5 seasons during City between 2010 and fasten Liverpool in 2015, creation 147 fasten appearances and scoring 13 goals. He was partial of a title-winning sides in 2012 and 2014, and also claimed winners’ medals in a 2011 FA Cup and a English League Cup 3 years later.
• International team-mates:
Jordan Henderson, Adam Lallana, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Nathaniel Clyne, Dominic Solanke, Joe Gomez Kyle Walker, John Stones, Fabian Delph, Raheem Sterling (England)
Simon Mignolet Vincent Kompany, Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium)
Roberto Firmino Ederson, Danilo, Fernandinho, Gabriel Jesus (Brazil)
Emre Can İlkay Gündoğan, Leroy Sané (Germany)
Alberto Moreno David Silva (Spain)
• Have played together:
James Milner Fabian Delph (Aston Villa FC, 2009–10)