Pre-match statsLiverpool can equal club goalscoring record in clash with Union SG
Liverpool have the chance to equal a club goalscoring record when they face Union SG in the Europa League this evening.
If Jürgen Klopp’s side find the net in their final fixture of Group E, it would be a 34th successive game in all competitions in which they have scored – matching the previous best in Reds history.
Read on for more pre-match facts and figures ahead of the 5.45pm GMT kick-off in Belgium…
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Watch on YouTubeThese two teams met for the first time ever on matchday two, with Liverpool winning 2-0 at Anfield as Ryan Gravenberch and Diogo Jota got the goals.
Under Klopp, Liverpool have won 31 of their 45 group games in European competition, with seven draws and seven defeats.
Only Wataru Endo and Harvey Elliott have started all five of the Reds’ Europa League games so far this season, with only Elliott playing every minute. Joe Gomez, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah have also appeared in each of those five matches.
Ahead of matchday six, only SC Freiburg – with 17 goals in Group A – had scored more goals in this group phase than Liverpool’s 16.
The Reds’ record against teams from Belgium to date is 13 wins, two draws and one defeat from 16 meetings, scoring 30 times.
Liverpool need two goals to reach the total of 250 in the three guises of this competition.
Of the 57 goals scored by Klopp’s men so far in 2023-24 in all competitions, 20 have been netted from the 76th minute onwards – including nine in stoppage time.
Elliott became the 13th different Reds player to score this season when he netted the winner at Crystal Palace last Saturday.
Union SG are the fifth Belgian team Liverpool have faced in European competition, following Anderlecht, Standard Liege, Club Brugge and Genk.
At home this season in all competitions, Union SG have won 10 of their 13 games – including each of the last seven – and lost only once.
On this day in 1959, Bill Shankly took over as manager of the Reds, 13 days after his appointment was announced. He led the club to a first European trophy success in 1973 in the UEFA Cup.