FC Midtjylland vs Liverpool UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
FC Midtjylland will bejust the third Danish side to face Liverpool in European competition, after Odense Boldklub in the 1983-84 European Cup and Brondby in the 1995/96 UEFA Cup.
This will be FC Midtjylland's first UEFA Champions League encounter against an English side - they've faced English teams on six previous occasions in all European competition, winning three times (D1 L2).
Liverpool have only lost one of their last 26 home games in all European competition (W18 D7). although that defeat came last time out versus Atletico Madrid in March (2-3). They haven't suffered consecutive home defeats in Europe since December 2009.
This will be FC Midtjylland's first away game in the UEFA Champions League ~ each of the previous four Danish sides to compete in the competition lost their first away game.
FC Midtjylland are the 17th team who will play their first ever UEFA Champions League away game against an English side - none of the previous 16 to do so have won. with 14 of them losing (most recently FC Qarabag losing 0-6 at Chelsea in September 2017).
Following their 1-0 win at Ajax on MD1, Liverpool are looking their first two group stage games in a single UEFA Champions League campaign forjust the second time. previously doing so in 2008-09. Excluding qualifiers.
FC Midtjylland have lost seven of their nine away games In European competition, drawing 1-1 at NK Varazdin (October 2002) and winning 3-1 at Club Brugge (October 2015) in the others. Liverpool haven‘t kept a clean sheet in any of their last four UEFA Champions League home games.
They've shipped eight goals in total across these four games. more than they had in their previous 1 3 in the competition at Anfield (7).
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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah has been involved in nine goals in nine UEFA Champions League group stage games at Anfield (B goals.1 assist). The Egyptian is also just two goals away from equalling Steven Gerrard's club record of 21 goals in the European Cup/Champions League. FC Midtjylland goalkeeper Jesper Hansen has shipped 26 goals in just seven UEFA Champions League appearances - four vs Atalanta on MD1, and 22 with PC Nordsjaelland in 2012/13.
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