Champions League Showdown: Liverpool vs Bayer Leverkusen – Mohamed Salah Aims for Historic Goals at Anfield!

team fight Liverpool EnglishThe Egyptian international, Mohamed Salah, will play among his level, a difficult confrontation when he hosts Bayer Leverkusen from Germany, at ten o’clock in the afternoon, Tuesday, at the Anfield Stadium, in the fourth round of the competition . The league level in the group stage of the Champions League for the current season 2024-2025.

Liverpool vs Leverkusen

Liverpool go into tonight’s game in good spirits, having recovered Top of the English Premier League From his rivals in Manchester City, after beating Brighton by two goals to one, the Reds will also face Bayer Leverkusen, who are in a very good position in the Champions League, from after achieving the full mark by winning the first three games at the expense of the Italian Milan with three goals to one and the Italian Bologna with two unanswered goals, Before beating the German Leipzig with a clean sheet .

Liverpool are second in the standings according to the new competition system UEFA Champions LeagueWith 9 points, one goal behind leaders Aston Villa, and Leverkusen are among seven teams to have secured seven points.

Liverpool vs Leverkusen.. Salah’s Champions League numbers

For his part, he seeks Mohamed Salah To continue his incredible brilliance with Liverpool this season, whether in the English Premier League or the Champions League, as the Pharaoh wrote history in Europe’s most prestigious competition, after being is the leading African goalscorer, having scored 45 goals in his career. , surpassing Ivorian Didier Drogba, with whom he shared with 44 goals.

Salah is hoping to score against Leverkusen to move up among the all-time Champions League winners, as he is 14th, one goal behind the late Portuguese Eusebio and the Italian Filippo Inzaghi who has retired, and only 4 goals behind on the list of the top 10 goalscorers in the history of the competition, is the Portuguese player Ronaldo Ronaldo with 140 goals.

Mohamed Salah’s harvest against Leverkusen

Liverpool’s match against Leverkusen will be Mohamed Salah’s third match against the German side in the Champions League.

Mohamed Salah played in the Italian shirt of Roma in two previous games against Bayer Leverkusen, when he scored and provided an assist, and won the first game in the group stage of the 2015-2016 season, and the another. the game ended in a 4-4 draw.

Alonso played for Liverpool between 2004 and 2009, and has a remarkable memory with the team, when he scored in a huge match of the 2005 Champions League final in Istanbul, when the Reds beat Milan on penalties after going 3-1 behind.

Alonso’s name is reported to be a possible candidate to coach Liverpool, following Jurgen Klopp, who left at the end of last season, before the Dutchman took over the job. Show me a slot.

Leverkusen and Alonso are suffering a clear decline this season, making the difference between them and Bayern Munich reaching 7 points for the last in the Bundesliga, the latter of which was a draw goal against Stuttgart : “It will be a big challenge at Anfield.

Sixth-placed Leverkusen have just 7 points in the Champions League table, collected from a four-way win over Feyenoord in the Netherlands, then Milan in Italy with a clean sheet, before drawing by the French Stade Brest with a similar goal in the last round.

The new Champions League system

The European Football Association (UEFA) has adopted a new system in the Champions League this season, with the participation of 36 teams, competing in a league competition, each team facing 8 other clubs , and those in positions from the first to the eighth are directly eligible. the round of 16, and those in positions from 9 to 8 qualify directly to the round of 16. 24, so they will go through a round-robin extension to determine 8 teams to make the round of 16 clubs completed, after which all rounds begin with a striking system.