MatchLiverpool v Lille: 12 stats to know as the Reds can set European record
Liverpool can achieve a piece of club history when they host Lille in the Champions League on Tuesday night – read our statistical preview to the Anfield tie.
If Arne Slot’s side go 36 minutes into this game without Lille scoring, they will set a new club record for most minutes without conceding a goal in Europe, beating the 572 set under Rafael Benitez in the 2005-06 edition of the competition.
The Reds are also aiming to equal their best ever sequence of seven wins in a row in the Champions League era, having won their opening seven matches of the 2021-22 campaign.
In their 16 previous clashes with French teams at Anfield, Liverpool have won 13, drawn one and lost two (to Marseille in 2007 and Lyon in 2009).
The teams have previously met in one tie. In March 2010, Lille beat Liverpool 1-0 at home in the Europa League round of 16, but the Reds won the second leg 3-0 to progress, with a penalty from Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres netting twice after the break.
Mohamed Salah needs one more goal to reach 50 in his European career with Liverpool.
Ryan Gravenberch and Virgil van Dijk have played every minute for Liverpool in the Champions League so far this season.
The Reds have lost only one of their last 28 fixtures – at Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup earlier this month.
Ibrahima Konate will miss the trip to PSV Eindhoven on matchday eight if he receives a yellow card in this game.
Lille currently sit in eighth place in the league-phase table, having picked up 13 points from their six games so far. They lost 2-0 at Sporting CP but then defeated Real Madrid 1-0 at home and Atletico Madrid 3-1 in Spain, before drawing 1-1 at home to Juventus. Their most recent matches saw them win 2-1 at Bologna and beat Sturm Graz 3-2 in France.
The visitors are undefeated in their last 21 matches, a new club record (12 wins, nine draws).
Lille have scored in all but one of their last 16 outings in all competitions, but have kept only two clean sheets in the last 10.
All of Liverpool’s last five goals have been scored by substitutes – Jayden Danns and Federico Chiesa against Accrington Stanley, Diogo Jota at Nottingham Forest, and Darwin Nunez with two at Brentford on Saturday.
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