Jürgen Klopp and Mo Salah eye Liverpool milestones against Toulouse

Pre-match statsJürgen Klopp and Mo Salah eye Liverpool milestones against Toulouse

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Check out 12 statistics and facts ahead of Liverpool's Europa League fixture against Toulouse at Anfield on Thursday.

A victory in this match will see Jürgen Klopp record 150 wins with Liverpool in all competitions as the 'home' side, with one of those coming in Budapest against RB Leipzig during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mohamed Salah will become the 13th player to reach 70 European appearances for the Reds if he features in this tie.

So far this season Klopp has used 21 players across two Europa League games, with only Harvey Elliott and Kostas Tsimikas playing every minute.

Liverpool last tasted defeat in the Europa League at Anfield in October 2012 – a 3-2 loss to Italian outfit Udinese.

The Reds have scored 43 of their 59 penalties in all European games, with the last being netted by Darwin Nunez against LASK last month.

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Liverpool and Toulouse have met before in one European tie, which came in the 2007-08 season, when they played a Champions League third-round qualifying match. The Reds won 1-0 in Toulouse thanks to Andriy Voronin's first goal for the club. In the return leg at Anfield, Liverpool triumphed 4-0, with goals from Peter Crouch, Sami Hyypia and Dirk Kuyt (two).

Liverpool have played 30 matches against French clubs in total during their history, winning 17 and losing 10, with three draws.

The Reds have also kept nine clean sheets in 15 home games against French opponents, conceding eight times. Of those, only Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain have scored more than once in a game at Anfield.

Klopp's team have won all six home matches this season, scoring 16 goals in the process.

Nunez has scored five goals in his 10 European appearances for Liverpool to date.

Salah has made five substitute appearances for the club in European competition so far and has scored five times in those games, averaging one every 13-and-a-half minutes.

The Reds are the only English club Toulouse have faced in European competition throughout their history.

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