Liverpool's best Champions League and Europa League matches against German opposition
By Luke Birch
Liverpool will face RB Leipzig for the third time in the Champions League, on Wednesday, night let’s look back at some of Liverpool’s best games against German opposition.
The Reds’ trip to RB Leipzig will be the third time the teams have faced-off in the Champions League.
From Bayer Leverkusen to Bayern Munich, Liverpool have played important matches against many other German teams in European competition.
Here is a selection of the best encounters.
Liverpool vs Borussia Monchengladbach (1977)
In 1977, Liverpool faced Borussia Monchengladbach in their first European Cup final in Rome, a night supporters would never forget.
The Reds opened the scoring at the Stadio Olimpico as Steve Heighway threaded the ball through to Terry McDermott.
Gladbach equalized through Allan Simonsen, before Heighway’s pinpoint cross found the glancing head of Tommy Smith. One to adorn the scrapbook.
Kevin Keegan was brought down in the penalty area, thus allowing defender Phil Neal to convert from the penalty spot.
The Reds hoisted the cup in Rome, becoming only the second English team to do it, and brought the cup back to thousands of adoring fans on Merseyside.
Liverpool vs Borussia Dortmund (2016)
The quarter-final of the Europa League and the penultimate European night in front of the old main stand.
After drawing the first leg 1-1 in Germany, Dortmund got off to a fast start at Anfield.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan opened the scoring, before Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang doubled the lead.
Early in the second half, Divock Origi poked a goal back, before Marco Reus’s low, curling finish seemed to secure the game for Thomas Tuchel’s side.
Philippe Coutinho replied with a similar effort, perhaps referencing Steven Gerrard’s celebration in Istanbul with his own raise of the arms.
Sakho deflected in the equaliser. The night’s scrapbook moment, into added time, Sturridge on for Milner, Milner looped for Lovren. He rose, he headed. The Klopp era was here, and the Reds were back.
Bayern Munich vs Liverpool (2019)
The first leg of the Champions League last 16 at Anfield finished 0-0 between Liverpool and Bayern Munich.
Then we went to the Allianz and Liverpool scored three. This fan favourite game of the Klopp era got going when Sadio Mane exquisitely controlled an up field ball, sent Manuel Neuer for the Liverpool Echo, and clipped the ball in.
A Joel Matip own goal got Bayern level, before James Milner’s corner was nodded down and in by Virgil van Dijk.
Salah drifted the ball into the box for Mane to head in, and provided Liverpool with the 3-1 win.
That match was a pivotal scrapbook moment on Liverpool’s road to beating Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid, and becoming Champions of Europe for the sixth time.
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