Bring on Matchday 5
#UEL x #UECL
Will Liverpool FC reach 10?
They’ve won their last nine group stage matches at home (all UEFA club competitions)
#UEL
West Ham
Brighton
Liverpool
Marseille
Rennes
Freiburg
Bayer Leverkusen
Atalanta
AS Roma
Villarreal
Sporting
Slavia Prague
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang led Marseille to a 4–3 win over Ajax and the #UEL knockout stages with this display:
27 touches
3 goals
5 shots/4 on target (1.80 xG)
15/18 accurate passes
9.0 Sofascore Rating
Aston Villa have reached the knockout stage of a major European competition for the first time since 2008/09.
Unai Emery is working wonders.
10 - Liverpool have won their first 10 home matches in a season in all competitions for a fourth time, also doing so in 1893-94 (first 16), 1972-73 (11) and 1985-86 (13). Fortress.
Only two players have scored three hat-tricks in the Europa League:
◉ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
◉ Radamel Falcao
A hat-trick of hat-tricks.
Only two players have won more duels whilst keeping a 100% duel completion rate in a Europa League game since 2016/17 than Geoffrey Kondogbia did vs. Ajax:
◎ Christopher Jullien (16/16)
◎ Yannick Gerhardt (15/15)
◉ Geoffrey Kondogbia (12/12)
Animal.
9’—
48’—
90+3’—
Aubameyang with the hat trick to win it 4-3 and book Marseille’s spot in the UEL knockouts
Saturday: 91st-minute winner vs. Burnley
Thursday: 89th-minute winner vs. TSC
Tomáš Souček coming up big for West Ham
Liverpool will play in the Europa League knockouts for the first time since 2016.
Their squad has changed a lot since then