English club Liverpool is preparing to open its journey in the European Champions League, when it clashes with Italian club Milan.
Liverpool will be hosted by Milan on Tuesday evening in the first round of the Champions League.
The draw for the 2024-2025 UEFA Champions League, with its new system, in the league stage, resulted in Liverpool facing 8 different teams, which are: Bologna of Italy, Bayer Leverkusen of Germany, Real Madrid of Spain, Lille of France, Milan of Italy, Leipzig of Germany, Girona of Spain and Eindhoven of the Netherlands.
Liverpool will face Bologna, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid and Lille at home at Anfield, while they will travel to face Milan, Leipzig, Girona and PSV Eindhoven away.
We present to you the most important facts before the Liverpool and Milan match:
This match marks the start of Liverpool’s 49th season in European competition and their 28th participation in the European Cup/Champions League.
– This is only the fifth European encounter between the two teams, having previously met in the Champions League final in 2005 and 2007 and twice during the group stage in the 2021-22 season.
– This will be Liverpool’s fifth visit to San Siro, having lost to Inter Milan (3-0) in 1965, but beaten them in 2008 (1-0) and 2022 (2-0), and beat Milan (2-1) in 2021.
The Reds have faced Italian clubs 41 times, home and away, winning 19 and losing 18.
– Liverpool have won eight of their last 10 away matches in this competition.
– This is the eighth consecutive season that the Reds have faced Italian opposition.
– Three Liverpool players are one game away from setting new club records: Diogo Jota (150), Darwin Nunez (100) and Dominik Szoboszlai (50).
– Virgil van Dijk could represent the club for the 50th time in European competition.
– Mohamed Salah has scored nine goals for Liverpool in 16 games against Italian teams, scoring in his last two games at the San Siro.
This will be the 50th encounter between Milan and English clubs, and in the previous 49 matches Milan won 14 times, drew 14 times and lost 21 times.
– Milan have won the Champions League seven times, one more than Liverpool, and their last victory against the Reds was in Athens in 2007.