Liverpool aim to start with Sevilla success
Liverpool FC face a tough lapse to a UEFA Champions League as they take on Sevilla FC – who kick a Reds in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League final.
• While Liverpool are in a organisation theatre for a initial time given 2014/15 – and only a second time in 8 seasons – Sevilla are in a final 32 for a third debate using and looking to build on final term’s swell to a turn of 16.
Previous meetings
• The clubs’ solitary past confront came in Basel in May 2016, when Sevilla came from a idea down to turn a initial organisation to win a UEFA Europa League – and a UEFA Cup foregoer – for a third unbroken season. Initially it looked like being Liverpool’s night when Daniel Sturridge dismissed them into a 35th-minute lead, though Kévin Gameiro leveled 17 seconds into a second duration and dual Coke goals (64, 70) gave Sevilla a fifth delight in a competition.
• The line-ups during St. Jakob-Park on 18 May 2016 were:
Liverpool: Mignolet, Clyne, Touré (Benteke 82), Lovren, Moreno, Milner, Can, Lallana (Allen 73), Coutinho, Firmino (Origi 69), Sturridge.
Sevilla: Soria, Rami (Kolodziejczak 78), Escudero, Ferreira, Carriço, Krychowiak, N’Zonzi, Banega (Cristóforo 90+3), Coke, Vitolo, Gameiro (Iborra 89).
Match background
Liverpool
• 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 aiming to strech a UEFA Champions League knockout rounds for a initial time given 2008/09.
• The Reds warranted their place in a organisation theatre – for a tenth time altogether – with a 6-3 total play-off feat over TSG Hoffenheim 1899, winning 2-1 away and 4-2 during home.
• The final 6 European games during Anfield have finished in a home win. Liverpool are dominant in their final 10 European home matches, given a 3-0 detriment to Real Madrid CF on 22 Oct 2014.
• The Merseysiders have won 3 of a final 4 visits by Spanish sides to Anfield, a solitary difference being that Real Madrid defeat.
• Overall their record opposite Spanish Liga clubs is W14 D10 L11; during home, it is W7 D4 L5.
Sevilla
• Sevilla’s seductiveness in final season’s UEFA Champions League was curtailed in England, a 2-0 annulment during Leicester City FC in their turn of 16 second leg completing a 3-2 total loss.
• That noted a third true better divided to Premier League antithesis for Sevilla, who have never won in 5 trips to England (D2 L3).
• Last term, Sevilla done it to a turn of 16 for a initial time given 2009/10 – but they have never left serve in a UEFA Champions League era. This is their fifth organisation theatre debate and their third in a row.
• Sevilla competent by finishing fourth in a 2016/17 Spanish Liga. They kick Turkey’s Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir in August’s play-offs, winning a divided initial leg 2-1 before a 2-2 pull in southern Spain.
• The 2-0 detriment during Leicester is Sevilla’s solitary better in their final 8 divided matches in UEFA foe (W3 D4).
Coach and actor links
• Alberto Moreno came by a ranks during home-town bar Sevilla, creation 62 first-team outings before fasten Liverpool in 2014.
• Daniel Carriço played in England with Reading FC in 2013; one of his 3 appearances came in a 0-0 home pull with Liverpool in Apr 2013.
• Steven N’Zonzi played in England from 2009 to 2015, with Blackburn Rovers FC and afterwards Stoke City FC. His record in 11 meetings with Liverpool was W2 D3 L6, nonetheless he scored in his many new confront – a 6-1 win for Stoke on 24 May 2015.
• Nolito bagged 4 goals in 19 Premier League games for Manchester City FC in 2016/17.
• Jesús Navas was a Manchester City actor between 2013 and 2017, with a record W2 D1 L4 opposite Liverpool. He played in a organisation that kick a Reds on penalties in a 2016 League Cup final.
• Philippe Coutinho had a loan spell with RCD Espanyol in 2012, scoring in a 1-1 pull with Sevilla in his final compare on 13 May 2012.