Mohamed Salah has scored in each of his last four UEFA Champions League appearances - the only Liverpool player to score in five consecutive European Cup/Champions League games is Steven Gerrard, who did so in the 2007-08 campaign.
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Dortmund vs Manchester City
It has been a rather grim start to the month for Borussia Dortmund, whose crumbling hopes of securing a top-four finish in the Bundesliga was followed by a late goal against Manchester City, giving the English giants a huge advantage heading into the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg at the Signal Iduna Park on Wednesday.
Black and Yellows, though, are still pretty much in the game as they did score a vital away goal. It means they can go through to the next round with a simple 1-0 victory over Manchester City this midweek and have every reason to be high on confidence, after securing a marvellous comeback win over VfB Stuttgart on the weekend.
Manchester City, in contrast, suffered their fourth defeat of the campaign in their recent game against Leeds United. It was a difficult match for the runaway Premier League leaders, who struggled to create anything as 10-men Leeds United stole all three points through a late winner from Stuart Dallas.
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Borussia Dortmund vs Manchester City Team News
Dan-Axel Zagadou, Marcel Schmelzer Axel Witsel, Jadon Sancho and Youssoufa Moukoko are all absent through injury for the hosts.
Aymeric Laporte and Sergio Aguero will both face late fitness tests after missing Saturday’s 2-1 defeat against Leeds United due to minor injuries.
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On the seven previous occasions Borussia Dortmund have lost the first leg of a UEFA Champions League knockout stage match, they have been eliminated six times. The exception was against Benfica in 2016-17 at the Last 16 stage (0-1 first leg, 4-0 second leg).
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In major European competition, Man City have progressed from 13 of their 15 knockout stage ties when winning the first leg, falling against Juventus in the 1976-77 UEFA Cup and against Monaco in the 2016-17 UEFA Champions League.
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In UEFA Champions League history, the side winning the first leg of a knockout stage tie 2-1 at home has been eliminated (15) more often than they have progressed (12).
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Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Phillips, Kabak, Robertson, Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Milner, Mane, Salah & Firmino
Real Madrid XI: Courtois, Valverde, Nacho, Militao, Mendy, Modric, Casemiro, Kroos, Asensio, Benzema & Vinicius
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Dortmund XI: Hitz; Morey, Akanji, Hummels, Guerreiro; Can, Bellingham, Dahoud; Knauff, Reus, Haaland.
Man City XI: Ederson; Walker, Stones, Dias, Zinchenko; Rodri, De Bruyne, Gündoğan; Mahrez, Bernardo, Foden.
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2 - In 13 previous knockout ties in European competition where they’ve lost the first leg by 2+ goals, Liverpool have progressed twice. The most recent example was overturning a 0-3 first leg deficit against Barcelona en route to winning the 2018-19 trophy.
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35 - James Milner (35y 100d) is the oldest player to start in a European Cup/UEFA Champions League knockout game for Liverpool since Ian Callaghan in March 1978 (35y 353d v Borussia Mönchengladbach).
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15 - In UEFA Champions League history, the side winning the first leg of a knockout stage tie 2-1 at home has been eliminated (15) more often than they’ve progressed (12).
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The Real Madrid team bus was damaged outside Anfield this evening as a crowd through objects upon its arrival.
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17y 289d - Aged 17 years and 289 days, Jude Bellingham is only the second player to reach 10 UEFA Champions League appearances before turning 18, after Youri Tielemans in 2014; the previous youngest English player to reach 10 games was Theo Walcott (18y 341d in 2008).
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17-year-old Jude Bellingham opens the scoring in Dortmund with his first-ever Champions League goal.
Dortmund 1-0 (2-2) Man City.
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Liverpool attempted more shots on target in the first 11 minutes tonight (2) than in the entire first leg (1).
However, Thibaut Courtois produced two fantastic saves to deny Mohamed Salah and James Milner and keep the match goalless.
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Jude Bellingham is the youngest English player in Champions League history to score a goal in the UCL
Dortmund might have to retire his shirt as well. 
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17y 289d - Jude Bellingham is the second-youngest player to score in a UEFA Champions League knockout game, after Bojan for Barcelona against Schalke in April 2008 (17y 217d).
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