Liverpool and Mohamed Salah march on with ease. Arne Slot’s team secured a place in the knockout phase of the Champions League with victory over Lille, on the night Salah became the first player in Liverpool’s illustrious history to score 50 European goals. Top of the Champions League and the Premier League, the six-time champions will fear no one in the last 16.
Liverpool needed only one point from their final two group games to guarantee a place in the knockout rounds, a place that has never once looked in doubt, and took all three courtesy of Salah’s instinctive finish and Harvey Elliott’s deflected strike. Victory equalled Liverpool’s best sequence in the Champions League era of seven straight wins, first set in 2021/22. Slot’s team also created a new club record for most minutes without conceding in Europe, surpassing the 572 set by Rafael Benítez’s team in 2005-06.
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