Liverpool face Bologna for the primary time ever as they meet within the Champions League, and Alisson could make a landmark look on his birthday
Liverpool’s Brazilian goalkeeper is in line to make his fiftieth European look for the Reds on his thirty second birthday.
The one different Liverpool ‘keeper to have performed extra in Europe was Ray Clemence, who made 80 appearances as he gained the European Cup thrice.
Towards Italian groups
This would be the Reds’ fourth successive recreation in Europe in opposition to Italian opposition.
Regardless of this being Liverpool’s forty ninth season in Europe, that is the primary time the 2 golf equipment have met in European competitors. Bologna shall be Liverpool’s 137th totally different European opponent and their tenth from Italy.
Two gamers have scored thrice in a recreation in opposition to groups from Italy – Steven Gerrard in its place in opposition to Napoli in November 2010 and Diogo Jota away to Atalanta in November 2020.
Liverpool have solely failed to attain in 5 of their final 38 European fixtures.
That is the eighth successive season that the Reds have confronted Italian opposition. House and away, they’ve confronted golf equipment from Italy 42 occasions, successful 20 and dropping 18.
At residence, Liverpool have performed Italian golf equipment 18 occasions, successful 10, drawing one and dropping seven.
Liverpool have misplaced three of their final 5 Anfield conferences with Italian opponents.
Mo Salah can set one other document
Within the win at AC Milan two weeks in the past, Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk turned solely the second centre-back pairing within the final 50 years to attain in the identical Liverpool recreation.
The one different event got here within the 4-3 Europa League residence win over Borussia Dortmund, when each Mamadou Sakho and Dejan Lovren discovered the online.
Mo Salah has eight objectives in his final eight Champions League appearances and has scored 47 objectives in 76 European appearances for Liverpool. He has 48 objectives in his Champions League profession.
Salah has scored 5 objectives in his three profession appearances in opposition to Bologna, together with a hat-trick in Roma’s 3-0 residence win in November 2016.
The Egyptian has scored extra objectives (47) for a single English membership than another participant in European historical past.
He’s two objectives away from recording 50 in his Champions League profession and has scored extra objectives within the competitors than another African participant in historical past.
9 of Salah’s Liverpool objectives have are available 17 appearances in opposition to Italian groups.
This season’s scorers
Liverpool: Diaz 5, Salah 5, Jota 3, Gakpo 2, Konate 2, Nunez 1, Szoboszlai 1, Van Dijk 1
Bologna: Castro 3, Fabbian 1, Iling-Junior 1, Orsolini 1, Urbanski 1
* Stats courtesy of LFC statistician Ged Rea (@ged0407).
