Liverpool Join Elite Group As They Become First Premier League Team To Achieve Champions League Record

Written By Jacobs Dunga

Jurgen Klopp’s men have been flying in this season’s UEFA Champions League and on Tuesday night against AC Milan at the San Siro, they set a new record for Premier League teams in the competition.

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Liverpool joined six other elite teams in the competition’s history to become just the seventh team to win all of their group games in a single season.

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Real Madrid(x2), Bayern Munich, PSG, Ajax Amsterdam, Spartak Moscow and AC Milan are the other teams to have achieved this feat in the modern era.

AC Milan under Fabio Capello were the first to achieve this feat in the 1992/1993 season where they would go on to lose to Olympique Marseille in the final in Munich.

It was Luis Fernandez who led a PSG team with George Weah leading the attack to victory in all group stage matches before bowing out to AC Milan 0-3 on aggregate in the semi final.

Oleg Romantsev’s Spartak Moscow had their share of history in the 1995/1996 season where they dispatched all comers in the group stages before bowing out in the quarter finals to Nantes.

Louis Van Gaal’s Barcelona side brushed off their peers in the 2002/2003 group stages with six out of six victories before bowing out to eventual finalists Juventus in the quarter finals.

Real Madrid are the only side to have achieved this feat more than once, they however lost out in the semi finals on both occasions. Their run in the 2011/2012 season under Jose Mourinho was stopped by Bayern Munich in the semi finals while Carlo Ancelotti’s Galacticos side of 2014/2015 lost to Juventus at the same stage.

Bayern Munich under the stewardship of Hansi Flick went all the way to lifting the trophy after winning all of their group stage matches. The German giants became the first team to go as far as lifting the trophy after such run.

Erik Ten Hag’s Ajax Amsterdam recorded double victories over the likes of Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon and Besiktas to join the elites while Liverpool led Jurgen Klopp negotiated their way past the supposed group of death to win all of their group stage games and thus become the first Premier League side and the seventh team to do so.

Meanwhile…

Ivorian striker, Sebastian Haller scored against Besiktas last night to become just the second player after Cristiano Ronaldo to score in all of the six group stage games in the competition’s history.

Ronaldo led the Madrid attack that went on to lift the trophy for the third consecutive time in 2018 and scored a whopping eleven goals in the group stages.

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What is most impressing about Haller’s feat is that the former West Ham United player is in his first ever Champions League campaign. His ten goals is just one short of Cristiano Ronaldo’s eleven in the group stages.

Ronaldo however can become the first player to achieve such feat with two different teams when Manchester United file out against Young Boys tonight with the 36 year old having already scored in all of the previous five games.

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