Liverpool followers have seen many unforgettable European nights at Anfield over time, and so they’ll want one other one in the event that they’re to keep away from one more round-of-16 exit within the Champions League.
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The Reds can have a 1-0 deficit to beat on dwelling soil once they face Galatasaray within the second leg of their knockout tie, and whereas that job is much from insurmountable (Jamie Carragher is they’ll pull it off), they’ll should buck a worrying development which has emerged all through this decade.
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It’s now been almost seven years since that era-defining 4-0 victory over Barcelona which secured the unlikeliest of passages to the 2019 Champions League in Madrid, the place we defeated Tottenham Hotspur to win our sixth European Cup.
Since that the majority epic of events in L4, Liverpool have performed seven matches at Anfield within the knockout phases of Europe’s premier membership competitors…and received solely as soon as ().
Liverpool’s terrible Anfield file in Champions League knockout rounds
The roll name of 2020s disappointment in that regard started six years in the past at the moment, when Atletico Madrid got here from 2-0 all the way down to win 3-2 after additional time and finish the Reds’ hopes of retaining their Champions League title.
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The next 12 months, it was their metropolis rivals Actual Madrid who got here away with a 0-0 draw within the quarter-finals to prevail 3-1 on mixture.
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Liverpool made all of it the way in which to the ultimate in 2022 regardless of profitable simply one among three knockout video games at Anfield. Away wins meant {that a} defeat to Inter (spherical of 16) and draw with Benfica (quarter-final) mattered not, and the Reds beat Villarreal 2-0 at dwelling within the first leg of the semi-final.
Actual Madrid got here again to hang-out us a 12 months later with a 5-2 demolition on Merseyside within the spherical of 16, the identical stage at which Paris Saint-Germain en path to lifting the trophy final season.
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LFC did beat RB Leipzig in each legs of their round-of-16 tie in 2021, however these two matches had been performed in Budapest resulting from COVID-19 restrictions which had been in place on the time.
When together with the Europa League in 2023/24, Liverpool have received simply two of their final 9 European knockout spherical video games at Anfield, shedding 5.
It’s not the perfect portent for Galatasaray’s go to to Merseyside subsequent week, however the Reds might want to buck the development of latest years and produce a standout springtime consequence at dwelling within the Champions League in the event that they’re to advance to the quarter-finals.