Liverpool might have missed out on perfection however Arne Slot’s facet nonetheless topped the Champions League league part desk.
Having gained their opening seven video games, prevented the Reds from turning into the competitors’s 14th staff to win all of their group-stage video games in a season.
Liverpool stay one of many favourites to win the Champions League title and can discover out their potential last-16 opponents on Friday.
So which golf equipment are in the most effective place to cease them?
Who scored essentially the most objectives, who conceded the fewest, who’s in red-hot type, and which staff are the dirtiest?
Which international locations did the most effective?
The English Premier League was the league part’s strongest division.
Three of the Premier League’s 4 groups – Liverpool, Arsenal and Aston Villa – completed within the high eight and went straight into the final 16.
The opposite, Manchester Metropolis, sneaked into the play-off spherical with a final-day win over Membership Brugge.
Spain’s La Liga was the one different league who had a number of groups advance straight to the final 16.
Barcelona and Atletico Madrid completed within the high eight whereas document winners Actual Madrid settled for a play-off spot.
Three out of the 5 Italian Serie A golf equipment made the play-offs, with Inter Milan into the final 16 and Bologna eradicated.
Lille have been the one French facet to complete within the high eight, as Paris St-Germain, Monaco and Brest made the play-offs.
And, of the Bundesliga groups, Stuttgart and RB Leipzig have been eradicated. Bayer Leverkusen completed sixth whereas Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are ones to keep away from within the play-offs.
Targets, objectives, objectives
With extra groups and extra matches a document 470 objectives have been scored throughout the league part, smashing the earlier group-stage better of 308 set in 2019.
Barcelona scored essentially the most with 28 league-phase strikes, once more a group-stage document, which they took with a recreation to spare.
Fuelled by Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha (extra on them later) the five-time winners netted in all of their matches, hitting 4 or extra towards Bayern Munich, Benfica, Younger Boys and Crimson Star Belgrade.
The very best scoring match was Bayern Munich’s opening day 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb.
However the German giants slowed their scoring and solely hit 11 objectives throughout their subsequent seven video games.
Atletico Madrid recorded the league part’s largest away win by smashing Sparta Prague 6-0 on matchday 5.
Targets have been plentiful. In case you attended a league-phase match you had over a 94.4% likelihood of seeing one.
There have been 144 video games in whole and solely eight of them resulted in a 0-0 draw.
Who leads the highest scorers race?
Barcelona’s Lewandowski and Borussia Dortmund’s Serhou Guirassy are the competitors’s high scorers with 9 objectives every.
Each of them have been unable to topple Cristiano Ronaldo’s group-stage goalscoring document of 11 objectives in six video games for Actual Madrid in 2015-16, nonetheless.
Atalanta have been closely reliant on Belgium midfielder Charles de Ketelaere, who created essentially the most assists with 5.
De Ketelaere additionally scored 4 instances and was immediately concerned in nearly half of his facet’s objectives (9 of 20).
No person had extra aim involvements than Raphinha although, who boasted eight strikes and 4 assists.
In whole, 34 gamers performed each minute of their facet’s league-phase marketing campaign.
Who conceded essentially the most?
Regardless of dropping 9-2 to Bayern Munich of their opening match, Dinamo Zagreb managed to keep away from having the league part’s leakiest defence, and even stored clear sheets towards Crimson Bull Salzburg and Celtic.
The undesirable most objectives conceded title was shared between Crimson Bull Salzburg and Slovan Bratislava who let in 27 objectives – once more, a document for a Champions League group stage.
Bratislava caught with Dominik Takac between the posts with the keeper one of many 34 who performed each minute.
Inter Milan had the meanest defence, conceding only one aim, towards Bayer Leverkusen on matchday six.
Goalkeeper Jan Sommer began all of their video games.
Most playing cards – Man Metropolis the cleanest?
When it comes to reds, Monaco, Lille and Juventus all had two every.
Bologna obtained essentially the most yellow playing cards (30) with AC Milan and Actual Madrid having the second most (26).
Manchester Metropolis obtained the fewest playing cards with 10 yellows. Additionally they dedicated the fewest fouls (61).
Atletico in type, Sporting limp by way of
Lastly, a take a look at type. After opening their marketing campaign with two defeats from three matches, Atletico Madrid have since been on the competitors’s longest successful run (5 video games).
In distinction, Sporting Lisbon began sturdy however ended up reaching the play-offs on aim distinction and have misplaced three and drawn one among their previous 4.
This season, 11 factors and a aim distinction of -6 throughout eight video games was sufficient to keep away from elimination.
Watch highlights of each Champions League recreation from 22:00 on Wednesday on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site and app.
There may even be a Champions League Match of the Day on BBC One on Wednesday, from 22:40 to 00:00.