Liverpool Beat Milan To Ensure Perfect Group Stage Record

By Daily Sports on December 8, 2021

Liverpool became the first English side to win all six Champions League group games as they completed a perfect journey into the knockout stage with victory over AC Milan in Italy.

Manager Jurgen Klopp made eight changes with qualification for the last 16 already assured as group winners, while the Serie A leaders went in search of the win they hoped would secure their own passage into the next phase.

Milan’s hopes rose on the half-hour when Takumi Minamino missed a near-post corner and goalkeeper Alisson could only push the ball out to England defender Fikayo Tomori, who scored from close range.

Liverpool’s line-up may have had an unfamiliar appearance but they were by far the more accomplished side. Mohamed Salah was in the starting line-up and once again demonstrated his predatory instincts with the equaliser seven minutes later, driving home the rebound after Milan keeper Mike Maignan saved from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. It meant the prolific Salah became the first Liverpool player since Ian Rush to score 20 goals in five successive seasons, also scoring the most goals for the club in the group stage of a European competition with seven.

Liverpool continued to dominate and Divock Origi scored his first goal in the competition since the 2019 Champions League final against Tottenham when he headed in after Maignan saved from Mane 10 minutes after the break. (BBC)

•PHOTO: Divok Origi (R) scorer of Liverpool’s winner

Source Daily Sports

Posted December 8, 2021


 

You may also like...
Guardiola: Toure must apologise for agent’s comments

Dream Team Get Ahmed Musa’s Gift after Libya...

Super Eagles get set in London for Serbia...

Mourinho distance self from PSG speculation

Iwobi is top candidate for 'Young Player of...

Boussoufa Fires Morocco Past South Africa

 

Latest News Maresca slams Delap’s ‘foolish’ red card in Chelsea EFL Cup win Brentford’s Kayode sparks Eagles call-up Team Nigeria gear up for Saudi Boxing Games World Athletics grants label to Abuja Half Marathon Lookman opens 2025/26 goal account Delap returns as Chelsea aim to solve striker issues Aspinall 'still can't see' three days after eye poke Norrie stuns Alcaraz for 'biggest win of career' Brendan Rodgers quits as Celtic manager De Bruyne injures thigh while scoring penalty Juventus sack manager Tudor after seven months How Andrews has brought about Brentford's tactical evolution

 

Most Read Rangers International going, going . . . (63,279 views) Amaju Pinnick: A cat with nine lives (54,488 views) Second Term: Amaju Pinnick, Other NFF Heavyweights Home to Roost •How Pinnick Broke the Jinx (52,442 views) Current issues in Nigerian sports: Matters arising (52,055 views) Sports Development: Zenith Bank on the zenith (52,050 views) Missing $150,000 IAAF Grant: Solomon Dalung’s Hide and Seek game (51,997 views) Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s solid footprints, commitment to sports development in Kano State (51,825 views) NFF Presidency: Pinnick, Maigari, Ogunjobi, Okoye in Battle for Supremacy (51,411 views) Olopade, BET9A wave of revolution in NNL (50,523 views) Commonwealth Games 2018: Shame of Muhammadu Buhari, Solomon Dalung (49,091 views) Ibrahimovic’s Man U exit: Whose decision is it? And in whose interest? (47,497 views) John Mikel Obi: Segun Odegbami’s Outrageous Call! (46,965 views)

 

Phone numbers

Tel: +234(0)8066020976
+234(0)8055068145
+234(0)7013416146
+234(0)8094272884

Email addresses

info@dailysportsng.com
support@dailysportsng.com
publisher@dailysportsng.com

Office address

No 3, Adetoun Close, Off College Road, Ogba, Ikeja Lagos.
Website: www.dailysportsng.com

Social Media