Nedtakt :
Thiago finished the game having covered the most distance 10.15km
He made 96 of 99 passes
9/9 long balls
Won the ball back 19 times whilst losing it 4.
For only the third time in Liverpool´s history, #LFC have had three players score 20+ goals in the same season (Salah 30, Jota 21, Mané 20).
Also 1981-82 (Rush 30, Dalglish 22, McDermott 20) and 2017-18 (Salah 44, Firmino 27, Mané 20).
This season will be Liverpool´s first without playing a single game on a Monday in any competition since 1980-81.
Did you know? Liverpool didn´t pay £25m for Thiago Alcantara in summer 2020… but *less* than €25m!
Fabrizio Romano
Xg :
Liverpool (1.71) 2-0 (0.08) Villarreal
Trent Alexander-Arnold´s game by numbers vs. Villarreal:
100% ground duels won
118 touches
36 passes into final third
20 final third entries
15 crosses
7x possession won
6 accurate long balls
5 duels won
4 tackles
Top scorers in the knockout stages for Liverpool (UCL era only):
14 Sadio Mané
11 Mohamed Salah
10 Roberto Firmino
6 Steven Gerrard
5 Dirk Kuyt
5 Luis García
5 Fernando Torres
Thiago Alcantara v Villarreal
90 Minutes Played
120 Touches
96% (99/103) Passing Accuracy
100% (9/9) Long Ball Accuracy
50% (1/2) Dribble Success
3 Ground Duels Won
1 Tackle
1 Clearance
5 Interceptions
8 - Across their three games at Anfield since the start of last week, Liverpool won by an aggregate score of 8-0, made 1,622 more passes than their opponents and had 93 more touches in the opposition box
4 - Jürgen Klopp has won each of his four home matches in Champions League semi-finals - this is the joint-best 100% win rate at home in semi-finals by any manager in the competition (Marcello Lippi and Ottmar Hitzfeld also 4/4).
7 - Mohamed Salah´s assist for Sadio Mané was the seventh time the pair have combined for a goal in the UEFA Champions League; the joint-most of any duo for English teams in the competition, equalling Wayne Rooney & Ryan Giggs and Mohamed Salah & Roberto Firmino.
1 - Villarreal attempted just one shot in this match; the joint-fewest shots (1) and shots on target (0) by any side in a UEFA Champions League semi-final since this data is available (2003-04), along with Inter vs Barcelona in 2009-10 (1 shot, 0 on target)
9 - Liverpool have won nine matches in the UEFA Champions League this season; the most games they have ever won in a single campaign in European competition (excluding qualifiers).
14 - Sadio Mané has tonight netted his 14th goal in the UEFA Champions League knockout stages, equalling Didier Drobga´s record as the African with the most such goals in the competition´s history.
12 - Since 2003-04 (when this data is available), no team have had more first half shots in a UEFA C Most Champions League goals scored in the knockout stages since 2017/18:
16 - Karim Benzema
14 - Sadio Mané
13 - Cristiano Ronaldo
13 - Robert Lewandowski
12 - Lionel Messi
11 - Mohamed Salah
Villarreal accumulated 0.00(xG) against Liverpool in the second half this evening.
Alisson Becker has kept more clean sheets (3) than he has made saves (2) in his last three games for Liverpool:
1 save vs. Man Utd
1 save vs. Everton
0 saves vs. Villarreal
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”
Bill Shankly