Liverpool booked their place in the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in a decade and in the process beat a long-standing record held by Manchester United. Roberto Firmino’s goal was Liverpool’s 33rd goal of the current campaign, one better than United’s total in 2002-03, meaning Jurgen Klopps’s side have now enjoyed the most prolific season in Europe’s premier club competition of any English side. Leading 3-0 from the first leg at Anfield a week ago, Liverpool made the worst possible start to the second leg of their quarter final tie against Manchester City with Gabriel Jesus hauling his side back into the contest inside two minutes.
Liverpool weathered the subsequent storm, albeit slightly fortuitously with Leory Sane’s goal wrongly ruled out for offside and Bernardo Silva hitting the post with a ferocious strike. Klopp reorganised his troops at the break with Mohamed Salah redeployed through the middle and the change paid almost immediate dividends with the prolific Egyptian effectively killing the tie with an impudent finish in the 56th minute. City’s momentum was killed stone dead and it took another 20 minutes for Firmino to score the record breaking goal, capitalising on a Nicolas Otamendi’s mistake and rolling the ball past Ederseon.
32 – Liverpool have scored 32 goals in the Champions League this season – the joint-most by an English side in a single campaign alongside Man Utd (32 in 2002-03). Unstoppable. pic.twitter.com/GSzqFxyRQA— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 10, 2018
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