Liverpool are one in all seven groups to win their opening two video games of the brand new Champions League season, and they’re joined by simply one in all their eight ‘league’ opponents.
Arne Slot‘s first season main the Reds in Europe’s premier competitors has began brightly, with a 3-1 win at Milan swiftly adopted up with a 2-0 victory over Bologna at Anfield.
The outcomes put six early factors on the board within the Champions League‘s new format, inserting Liverpool fifth out of the 36 groups.
There are nonetheless six league section video games to go earlier than the ultimate standings are confirmed, however let’s check out how the Reds’ opponents on this preliminary stage have been getting on.
How Liverpool’s opponents have gotten on
It has been a blended bag for the Reds’ remaining opponents within the league stage up to now, with two winless sides and one sitting alongside Slot’s males with two victories.
Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen sit highest within the desk, at the moment fourth, after wins over Milan and Feyenoord, neither staff even managed to place a blemish on their document.
Actual Madrid, who the Reds face simply days earlier than Man Metropolis‘s go to within the league, fell to a shocking defeat to Lille after a gap win over Stuttgart, placing them in the midst of the pack.
The Merseysiders won’t host Lille till January, however they are going to be one to observe after their victory over the Spanish facet, although they did lose on the street to Sporting.
Slot’s outdated rivals PSV are at the moment holding on to the final play-off place having secured a single level following a draw towards Sporting after a defeat at Juventus.
League Stage Dates
Matchday 1: AC Milan 1-3 Liverpool
Matchday 2: Liverpool 2-0 Bologna
Matchday 3: Leipzig (A) – Wednesday, October 23, 8pm
Matchday 4: Bayer Leverkusen (H) – Tuesday, November 5, 8pm
Matchday 5: Actual Madrid (H) – Wednesday, November 27, 8pm
Matchday 6: Girona (A) – Tuesday, December 10, 5.45pm
Matchday 7: Lille (H) – Tuesday, January 21, 8pm
Matchday 8: PSV (A) – Wednesday, January 29, 8pm
Lastly, Leipzig and Girona make up two of the groups but to get off the mark. The German facet have began strongly within the Bundesliga however have suffered slim losses right here to Atletico Madrid and Juventus.
Girona, in the meantime, have recorded defeats to PSG and Slot’s former membership, Feyenoord.
As the brand new format sees every membership play one another solely as soon as, Bologna (one level) and Milan (zero factors) are within the rearview mirror for Liverpool, however they’re two of the early strugglers.
Full desk after 2 video games
Borussia Dortmund, Brest, Benfica, Leverkusen, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Juventus are the one groups to win their opening video games in order that they at the moment occupy the automated qualifying spots.
Eight stay pointless, and Pep Pep Lijnders’ Salzburg sit in that class – they’re even one in all 4 groups but to attain within the competitors.
We’re solely 1 / 4 of the way in which by means of the league section, however we wouldn’t have too lengthy to attend till the following spherical, which for Liverpool is at Leipzig on October 23.
The highest eight within the league will qualify mechanically for the spherical of 16, whereas the groups who end ninth to twenty fourth will compete in a two-legged play-off for a spot within the final 16.
