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Alexis Mac Allister (61 mins)
Anfield ERUPTS!
Dominik Szoboszlai sends in a beauty of a free-kick and the smallest man on the pitch, Alexis Mac Allister, powers a header beyond Thibaut Courtois.
Image source, Getty ImagesTottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
Randal Kolo Muani charges through and it's another golden opportunity for the forward but this time Dominik Kotarski has it covered and smothers the ball.
Liverpool 0-0 Real Madrid
Jonathan Woodgate
Former Real Madrid defender on BBC Radio 5 Live at Anfield
Real Madrid are starting to hold on. Liverpool are applying the pressure and Madrid are finding it difficult.
Liverpool 0-0 Real Madrid
Jude Bellingham picks up a booking for a rash challenge on Ryan Gravenberch.
Another chance for Liverpool from a free-kick.
Tottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
Michael Emons
BBC Sport at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
The move for Spurs' second goal started near the corner flag, right at the opposite end of the season, before a long pass and Randal Kolo Muani's determination, charging down Dominik Kotarski's clearance and then keeping his cool to set up Wilson Odobert's goal
"When the Spurs go marching in," was rumbling around the ground getting louder and louder.
But it is never easy for Spurs and Brennan Johnson's red card has made those in the stands supporting the hosts get nervous and made this a contest once more
Boos around the ground, not at the players, but at the decision to send Johnson off, but when Belgian referee Erik Lambrechts was sent to the monitor to watch the challenge you knew what was coming next.
Tottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
I think Guglielmo Vicario has had me there. He's definitely fine and the Spurs players went over to Thomas Frank to get some information following that red card. Hook, line and sinker there I was.
Anyway, Xavi Simons is the player sacrificed after the red card and Joao Palhinha comes on. Simons has played really well tonight and he looks absolutely gutted to be coming off.
Liverpool 0-0 Real Madrid
Arda Guler is caught sleeping at the far post as Alvaro Carreras sends a dangerous ball across the box.
Liverpool 0-0 Real Madrid
Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard is sitting in the Main Stand at Anfield.
He scored in the 4-0 win over Real Madrid back in 2009.
Paris St-Germain 0-2 Bayern Munich
Manuel Neuer tests the referee's patience as he takes an age to restart play from a goal kick.
Italian referee Maurizio Mariani doesn't allow the veteran German to waste time, though, and out comes the card.
Tottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
Guglielmo Vicario has stretched out his hamstring but is going to carry on.
A change will surely be made here by Thomas Frank after Brennan Johnson's red card.
Liverpool 0-0 Real Madrid
Kylian Mbappe clips it round Virgil van Dijk and goes down clutching his face after a hand-off.
No booking for the Liverpool captain, though.
Tottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
More trouble here for Spurs! A bad couple of minutes could be turning to a disastrous couple of minutes as Guglielmo Vicario goes down clutching his hamstring.
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Absolutely fair play to Vincent Kompany. I thought Bayern bringing him in was madness but he seems to have created a monster of a team. 15 played, soon to be 15 won, giving last year's best team in PSG the runaround. Scary prospect!
JP
Tottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
Oh no. Brennan Johnson puts his head in his hands as the referee upgrades his decision to red.
It wasn't a great challenge and his studs do make contact down the back of Marcos Lopez's leg.
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Tottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
It's a bit daft from Brennan Johnson, he's sliding into the back of Marcos Lopez. The referee has been sent to the screen and we know what this usually means.
Tottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
Oh hello. Brennan Johnson's challenge on Marcos Lopez earns him a yellow card but VAR are going to have a look at this to potentially upgrade it to red.
Liverpool 0-0 Real Madrid
I said at the start of this one that Liverpool need to be close to their best and they are.
Can they find a breakthrough, though?
Paris St-Germain 0-2 Bayern Munich
Vincent Kompany has made a change as 10-man Bayern Munich emerge for the second half with Tom Bischof replacing Serge Gnabry.
Bischof looks like he's going to sit a little deeper in midfield than Gnabry did as Bayern look to protect their 2-0 lead.
Liverpool 0-0 Real Madrid
Stephen Warnock
Former Liverpool defender on BBC Radio 5 Live at Anfield
Image source, Getty ImagesIt is a good foul from Alexis Mac Allister, but Dominik Szoboszlai had read it.
Szoboszlai's engine is absolutely amazing.
Tottenham 2-0 Copenhagen
Tottenham have been on top this evening but it's two pretty sloppy goals that Copenhagen have conceded.
Youssoufa Moukoko has a decent chance but it's saved by Guglielmo Vicario.
| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 11 | 12 |
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| 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 12 |
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| 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 9 |
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| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
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| 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
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| 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
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| 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
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| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
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| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
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10 Sporting CP | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
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| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 |
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| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
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| 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 6 |
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15 Qarabağ | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
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16 Galatasaray | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 6 |
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17 PSV | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
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| 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 5 |
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| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 4 |
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| 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | -4 | 4 |
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| 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 4 |
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| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
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| 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 3 |
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24 Club Brugge | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 3 |
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| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 3 |
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26 Union Saint-Gilloise | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 3 |
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27 Bodø / Glimt | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 2 |
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28 Pafos | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 2 |
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| 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 2 |
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30 Slavia Prague | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 2 |
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31 Olympiakos | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 2 |
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| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 1 |
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33 Copenhagen | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 1 |
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34 Kairat | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | -8 | 1 |
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35 Benfica | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 0 |
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36 Ajax | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | -10 | 0 |
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Manager: Arne Slot
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Xabi Alonso
Formation: 4 - 1 - 4 - 1
Manager: Arne Slot
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Xabi Alonso
Formation: 4 - 1 - 4 - 1
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Liverpool and Real Madrid have faced each other on 12 previous occasions in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League. After winning the first three between 1981 and 2009, Liverpool have only won one of the last nine (D1 L7).
This will be the eighth time that Liverpool and Real Madrid have met in the UEFA Champions League since the start of the 2017-18 season, with the Spanish side winning five of the previous seven (D1 L1). Including all MD4 games this season, only two fixtures will have been played more often in the competition in this period: Manchester City v Real Madrid (10) and Paris SG v Bayern Munich (9).
All four of Liverpool’s wins over Real Madrid in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League have been to nil, including the most recent one in November 2024 (2-0 at Anfield). Only Juventus (5) have won and kept a clean sheet against Real Madrid across the two competitions on more occasions.
Liverpool have won 20 of their last 22 home UEFA Champions League group stage games (D1 L1), including each of their last 12 in a row. However, three of their seven home group defeats have come versus Spanish sides (one each vs Barcelona, Valencia and Real Madrid).
Real Madrid have won their first three UEFA Champions League matches this season – on two of the previous four occasions they’ve started with four consecutive wins, they’ve lifted the trophy (2001-02 and 2023-24), reaching the semi-finals in the other two (2011-12 and 2014-15).
Real Madrid have had the most shots on target in the UEFA Champions League this season (37), having 10+ in all three games (15 v Marseille, 12 v Kairat, 10 v Juventus). Since 2003-04, the only team to do so in four in a row are Madrid themselves in the 2013-14 campaign, though Liverpool have only faced 10+ shots on target twice since 2003-04, and never at Anfield.
Arne Slot has won 10 of his 13 UEFA Champions League matches as Liverpool manager (L3), with only Hansi Flick at Bayern Munich (10), Luis Enrique at Barcelona (11) and Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid (12) reaching 10 wins in fewer games with a club. Slot at Liverpool is the fastest any manager has won 10 games with an English club, however.
Of the 10 players with 50+ goals in European Cup/UEFA Champions League history, Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappé has the highest percentage scored in away matches (53% - 32/60). The Frenchman netted a hat-trick in his previous away game in the competition (v Kairat on MD2), and now has the joint-most away hat-tricks of any player in European Cup/Champions League history (3 – level with Filippo Inzaghi).
This game could be Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham’s 50th UEFA Champions League appearance, reaching that total aged just 22 years and 128 days – the youngest of any player in the competition’s history. The current youngest is Iker Casillas, who hit 50 games aged 22 years and 155 days, just 115 days after Bellingham was born in 2003.
Real Madrid defender Trent Alexander-Arnold could become just the second Englishman to play against Liverpool in the European Cup having previously played for them in the competition, after Nottingham Forest’s Larry Lloyd in September 1978 (played both games against Liverpool in the first round in 1978-79).
