Richard Jolly: Two familiar Liverpool heroes deliver as Arne Slot extends European dominance
1 min readArne Slot has started his Liverpool tenure with six consecutive Champions League wins.
The mathematics of a complicated competition may remain unclear but one element is apparent. Liverpool will skip the Champions League’s inaugural knock-out play-off round and head straight for the last 16. They in effect booked their place, and a top-eight finish in the group stages, on a night decided by two men who won them the competition in 2019.
Mohamed Salah scored a penalty, as he did in the final then. Alisson Becker saved plenty of shots, as he did on that Madrid night. Now Liverpool have a Spanish double in a couple of weeks, even if Girona acquitted themselves better than Real Madrid did at Anfield. Now Arne Slot has 19 wins in 22 games with Liverpool, a clean sweep of six in Europe for the six-time European champions. They have made light work of a difficult draw.