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When Liverpool host Bayer Leverkusen at Anfield UEFA Champions League

When Liverpool will host Bayer Leverkusen at Anfield in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.

Not only are both teams playing a dominant attacking game right now. But this also marks a return to Anfield for boss Xabi Alonso. We have some tidbits to whet your appetite for this game. These two teams have met four times in the Champions League, with Liverpool winning three of them and Leverkusen winning one, with that victory coming in the second leg of the 2001-02 quarter-finals when they won 4-2.

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Leverkusen have visited the English side in Bayer Leverkusen major European competition 11 times, but they have an unforgettable record, losing seven, drawing three and winning just once, a 1-0 win at Tottenham Hotspur in November 2016.

In addition, among those 11 trips, they ทางเข้า ufabet https://ufabet999.app also visited Liverpool at Anfield twice, but returned with defeat on both occasions – the first leg of the quarter-finals of the 2001-02 season, where they lost 0-1 and the first leg of the round of 16 of the 2004-05 season, where they lost 1-3.

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Of the last 21 European games against German opposition, Liverpool have lost just once, winning 14 and drawing six.

Slot era, hoping to catch up with Klopp era

As we all know, Liverpool have now won all three of their first three Champions League games, and if Arne Slot’s team can pick up another three points, it will be only the second time in Liverpool’s history that they have won all four of their first four Champions League games of the season.

The only previous team to do so was 2021-22 under Jürgen Klopp, who went on to win all seven of their opening Champions League games that season – six in the group stage and the first leg of the last-16.

Salah and his brutal performance at home

Mohamed Salah has now scored in five consecutive Champions League home games for Liverpool and if he gets on the scoresheet here it will make him the first player from an English club since 2003 to score in six consecutive home Champions League games, the last player to do so being Ruud van Nistelrooy for Manchester United.