Liverpool demeanour for some-more of a same opposite Maribor
A club-record European divided win has increased Liverpool FC’s UEFA Champions League prospects and a English side will aim to be likewise clinical when NK Maribor come to Anfield.
• Jürgen Klopp’s organisation were 7-0 winners during Maribor on matchday three, their initial feat in Group E after dual draws. The Reds have 5 points and are turn on points with FC Spartak Moskva during a top.
• Maribor have one point, carrying drawn their initial diversion though mislaid a subsequent two, and will be incompetent to finish in a tip dual if they remove and Spartak win divided to Sevilla FC.
Match background
Liverpool
• Liverpool’s usually prior fixtures opposite Slovenian antithesis came in a 2003/04 UEFA Cup initial round, when they drew 1-1 during NK Olimpija Ljubljana before a 3-0 feat during Anfield.
• 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.
• Before being held 2-2 during home by Sevilla FC on matchday one, Liverpool’s prior 6 European games during Anfield had finished in a home win. They are dominant in their final 11 European home matches, given a 3-0 detriment to Real Madrid CF on 22 Oct 2014.
Maribor
• Having gone down 3-0 during Sevilla on matchday two, Maribor have mislaid 3 of their final 7 European divided games (W2 D2). However, notwithstanding their record European home better by Liverpool final time out, they have mislaid usually 4 of their final 15 matches, home and divided (W6 D5).
• Maribor’s solitary feat in a UEFA Champions League proper, organisation theatre to final, came divided from home with a 1-0 success during FC Dynamo Kyiv on their entrance in Sep 1999. Their divided record given reads D2 L4.
• Maribor have won usually one of their 9 prior games opposite English teams, beating Wigan Athletic FC 2-1 in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
• The Slovenian side have mislaid on all 4 of their trips to England, many recently a 6-0 drubbing during Chelsea FC in a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Maribor’s altogether record opposite English clubs is W1 D2 L6.
• The Slovenes are in a organisation theatre for a third time, carrying formerly competed in 1999/2000 and 2014/15. In that latter organisation coming they drew 1-1 during FC Schalke 04 and mislaid during both Sporting Clube de Portugal (1-3) and Chelsea FC (0-6 – their biggest divided better in a competition).
• Maribor competent for this season’s UEFA Champions League by winning a sixth Slovenian pretension in 7 seasons in 2016/17. In Europe final term, they kick PFC Levski Sofia and Aberdeen FC before losing to Gabala SC in a UEFA Europa League play-offs.
• Maribor got to a stream organisation theatre by overcoming HÅ K Zrinjski of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-2 on total in a second subordinate turn (2-1 away, 1-1 home) and Iceland’s FH Hafnarfjördur in a subsequent turn (1-0 home, 1-0 away). In a play-offs they went down 2-1 during Hapoel Beer-Sheva FC in a initial leg though progressed on divided goals interjection to a 1-0 home success.
Coach and actor links
• Aljaž Cotman was during Wolverhampton Wanderers FC between 2010 and 2013, though left but creation a comparison first-team appearance.