The Uruguayan Darwin Nunez scored Liverpool’s fastest domestic Champions League goal when he gave his English football team the lead after 3 minutes and 10 seconds with a spectacular corner kick against defending champion Real Madrid in the first match of the round of 16 matchup on Tuesday evening.
Liverpool, on the other hand, lost 5-2 to the Spanish Royal Guard from a 2-0 lead, and the final result in the “rematch” of last year’s BL final is a negative peak in the Reds’ domestic history. For the first time, they conceded five goals at Anfield in a European Cup match, and in addition, Liverpool became the first team in the BL to lose a game with a three-goal margin from a 2-0 lead.
According to Wednesday’s summary of the International Organization for the History and Statistics of Football (IFFHS), in the last seventy years and in any of its appearances, Liverpool has only suffered a heavier defeat by a visiting team in two matches: Arsenal won against them 6-3 in the English League Cup in 2007 and In 1953 he finished 1-5 against Preston North End in a league match.
Former legendary striker Thierry Henry said in the CBS Sports studio that yesterday’s 5-2 defeat ended an era at Liverpool.
Brazilian Vinícius Júnior, who scored two of Madrid’s five goals, became the second youngest footballer at 22 years and 224 days to score in a European Cup match at Anfield. The “coral champion” is still the late Johan Cruyff; the Dutch classic scored for Ajax in December 1966 at the age of 19 years and 233 days.
