4 Liverpool Champions League games that you must Watch

The start of the Champions League is just a week away and it is a new era for Europe’s most prestigious club competition as it will actually now be a league format.

The new format has every team play eight separate teams with varying levels of difficulty, four separate levels of teams with everyone facing two teams from each level.

Liverpool have some blockbuster fixtures in their schedule but this isn’t about that, here’s 4 fixtures that have to be watched by all Liverpool fans.

Liverpool Vs Bayer Leverkusen

The first fixture LFC fans should be watching out for is the home game against former LFC midfielder and supposed former managerial target Xabi Alonso and his invincible Leverkusen side.

In the 23/24 season, Alonso and his team completed an invincible domestic double annihilating the established German elite, becoming the only Bundesliga side to go invincible. Alonso has built a great squad in his tenure with even more impressive tactics.

The hybrid of styles that Alonso uses is what has made him such a strong tactician. Playing under Rafa Benitez, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola is not a bad way to have learnt the tactical side of the game from.

One of his current players Alex Grimaldo has spoken about his time with Alonso: “He is demanding but respectful”, in an interview with The Athletic.

Coming up against a former managerial target will be interesting for Liverpool fans and even LFC higher ups.

Liverpool Vs Real Madrid

Every Liverpool fan's least favorite Spanish team. Over the past decade Liverpool have faced the Spanish giants on eight separate occasions, with Real coming out on top seven times with the other match being a bore 0-0 draw.

Two of the elite few who have more than five UCL titles, Real the most successful with 14 and Liverpool have 6.

Two of Real’s 14 triumphs have come against Liverpool, both in the past eight years. A 3-1 defeat in Kyiv and an agonising 1-0 loss, in a game LFC would have won comfortably, if it weren’t for a Thibault Courtois masterclass in goalkeeping.

Not exactly a revenge game but a chance for Slot to overcome some demons of LFC past, a task which has only been getting harder with Real’s additions in the past two seasons.

Girona Vs Liverpool

A game to look forward to for the complete opposite reason for the previous fixture. Girona are a small Spanish team in Catalunya, the same region as Barcelona.

Girona have historically been a perennial 2nd/3rd tier side but in the past decade have set themselves to be a consistent La Liga side.

The club is a part of the City Football Group and have benefitted from the investment and partnerships that have come with this.

However take nothing away from the achievement from manager Michel and his team that finished 3rd in the 23/24 season ahead of the other Madrid side, Atletico.

This is the club's first venture into Europe in their history and have flung themselves into the deep end with the Champions League.

Having lost Ballon D’Or nominee and La Liga top goal scorer, Artem Dovbyk, exciting winger Savinho, who has gone on to join Man City and midfielder Aleix Garcia, they look to be a weaker side but with some smart additions this summer, it will still be a strong test away from Anfield.

RB Leipzig Vs Liverpool

The final game that LFC fans should definitely watch is the fixture against Germany’s most hated club, a club which LFC have a very strong working relationship with.

Leipzig have an extremely talented squad and equally talented manager; Marco Rose is a very similar manager to Jurgen Klopp and came through at with the Red Bull system with Salzburg.

Xavi Simons, Lois Openda, Castello Lukeba and Benjamin Sesko are the most exciting talents in this Leipzig team.

An intriguing matchup for the new manager up against a very tactically talented manager.