Liverpool shall be determined to begin constructing some momentum once they return to Champions League motion in opposition to Rangers this week.
The Reds’ 2-1 win over Ajax in Group A represents their solely win of their previous 4 video games in what has been a horror start to the season.
Liverpool’s shock 3-3 draw to Brighton on Saturday means they’re now with no Premier League victory because the finish of August.
Rangers meanwhile have lost both of their opening matches upon their return to the Champions League and one other defeat right here will doubtless finish their slim possibilities of progressing.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s facet are in a lot better kind domestically nevertheless, following a cushty 4-0 win over Hearts final day trip.
Liverpool v Rangers: talkSPORT protection
This Champions League conflict will happen on Tuesday, October 4.
Kick-off at Anfield is at 8pm.
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Liverpool v Rangers: Crew information
Andy Robertson will miss the prospect to face boyhood membership Celtic’s greatest rivals by harm, with Kostas Tsimikas set to begin.
Ibrahima Konate is closing in on a return, however this one would possibly come too quickly amid Liverpool’s prolonged listing of absentees.
Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are each long-term absentees, with the likes of Curtis Jones, Calvin Ramsay, Kaide Gordon and Caoimhin Kelleher all nonetheless within the therapy room.
As for Rangers, James Sands is suspended which might imply former Liverpool defender Ben Davies is afforded an opportunity to impress.
The Scottish giants even have a hefty harm listing of their very own, with Tom Lawrence, Filip Helander, Ianis Hagi and Kemar Roofe among the many stars out.
Liverpool v Rangers: What has been stated?
Jurgen Klopp throughout his pre-match press convention: “(Rangers are a) Good soccer staff, properly coached, distinctive European season final 12 months clearly.
“Qualifying for the Champions League a giant, massive, massive, massive achievement. [I] noticed clearly the final recreation in opposition to Hearts. I noticed extra video games however now particularly the final one.
“Actually good soccer staff and that’s what now we have to arrange for. And a staff who’ve had outcomes they didn’t need, in order that’s what they need to change positively.
“So, we anticipate a correct struggle, an actual struggle, to be sincere, and that’s what we put together for.”
Rangers gaffer Giovanni van Bronckhorst: “We don’t have any factors, so we all know the problem we face tomorrow in opposition to a extremely good facet.
“We wish a outcome. That’s what now we have to do.
“After all now we have to have a look at ourselves. We’re going to come back right here to get a superb outcome, that’s our intention. That all the time has to to be our intention.
“It’s going to be actually troublesome. It’s a staff who’ve carried out very well within the Premier League. They’ve been in three finals prior to now 5 years.
“Nonetheless probably the greatest groups in Europe. If you happen to have a look at the entire opponents we’ve confronted in Europe final season, and this season, that is in all probability the strongest facet.”
Liverpool v Rangers: Match info
- Mohamed Salah made his 58th UEFA Champions League look for Liverpool of their 2-1 win over Ajax, the joint third most for the membership (degree with John Arne Riise) with solely Jamie Carragher (80) and Steven Gerrard (73) taking part in extra. Salah has 34 objectives for Liverpool within the competitors, solely two behind the report for an English membership (36 – Didier Drogba for Chelsea and Sergio Agüero for Man Metropolis).
- Kostas Tsimikas has three assists in his final two dwelling UEFA Champions League appearances for Liverpool (two vs Benfica in April, one vs Ajax). The one participant to help in three consecutive dwelling appearances for the Reds within the competitors is Trent Alexander-Arnold (April – October 2019).
- Rangers are nonetheless on the lookout for their first aim within the UEFA Champions League this season, whereas they’ve by no means beforehand failed to attain of their opening three video games in a single version. Certainly, solely Viktoria Plzeň (2) and Sevilla (3) have had fewer pictures on track than Rangers (4) throughout this season’s first two matchdays.
- The common beginning distance of Liverpool’s sequences of play within the UEFA Champions League this season have been greater up the sector than some other staff, with Jürgen Klopp’s facet recovering the ball 50.2 metres from their very own aim on common.
- Rangers’ 0-4 defeat in opposition to Ajax on MD1 was their heaviest in a UEFA Champions League away recreation. Certainly, the Scottish facet (1) had eight fewer pictures on track than their opponent (9), whereas they solely had 4 touches within the opposition field through the match, in comparison with Ajax’s 43.
- Liverpool have gained 13 of their final 15 dwelling UEFA Champions League group stage matches (D1 L1), scoring 36 objectives in these 13 wins. Their solely defeat on this run was in opposition to Atalanta in November 2020.
- There’s solely been one occasion of a Scottish facet successful away at an English facet within the European Cup or UEFA Champions League in seven makes an attempt (D2 L4), with Celtic successful 1-0 at Leeds United within the first leg of the 1969-70 semi-final.
- Liverpool’s final assembly with Scottish opponents within the European Cup was again in 1980-81, successful 5-0 on combination in opposition to Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen (1-0 away, 4-0 dwelling). The Reds went on to win the competitors that 12 months.
- In all European competitors, Rangers have solely gained one among their seven away video games in England (D2 L4), beating Leeds United 2-1 within the UEFA Champions League qualifying part in November 1992 with objectives from Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist.
- That is the primary ever European assembly between Liverpool and Rangers in any competitors.
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