Liverpool could have missed out on perfection however Arne Slot’s aspect nonetheless topped the Champions League league part desk.
Having gained their opening seven video games, prevented the Reds from changing into the competitors’s 14th staff to win all of their group-stage video games in a season.
Liverpool stay one of many favourites to win the Champions League title and can discover out their potential last-16 opponents on Friday.
So which golf equipment are in one of the best place to cease them?
Who scored probably the most objectives, who conceded the fewest, who’s in red-hot kind, and which staff are the dirtiest?
Which international locations did one of the best?
The English Premier League was the league part’s strongest division.
Three of the Premier League’s 4 groups – Liverpool, Arsenal and Aston Villa – completed within the prime eight and went straight into the final 16.
The opposite, Manchester Metropolis, sneaked into the play-off spherical with a final-day win over Membership Brugge.
Spain’s La Liga was the one different league who had a number of groups advance straight to the final 16.
Barcelona and Atletico Madrid completed within the prime eight whereas file winners Actual Madrid settled for a play-off spot.
Three out of the 5 Italian Serie A golf equipment made the play-offs, with Inter Milan into the final 16 and Bologna eradicated.
Lille had been the one French aspect to complete within the prime eight, as Paris St-Germain, Monaco and Brest made the play-offs.
And, of the Bundesliga groups, Stuttgart and RB Leipzig had been eradicated. Bayer Leverkusen completed sixth whereas Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are ones to keep away from within the play-offs.
Objectives, objectives, objectives
With extra groups and extra matches a file 470 objectives had been scored throughout the league part, smashing the earlier group-stage better of 308 set in 2019.
Barcelona scored probably the most with 28 league-phase strikes, once more a group-stage file, which they took with a sport to spare.
Fuelled by Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha (extra on them later) the five-time winners netted in all of their matches, hitting 4 or extra in opposition to Bayern Munich, Benfica, Younger Boys and Pink Star Belgrade.
The best scoring match was Bayern Munich’s opening day 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb.
However the German giants slowed their scoring and solely hit 11 objectives throughout their subsequent seven video games.
Atletico Madrid recorded the league part’s largest away win by smashing Sparta Prague 6-0 on matchday 5.
Objectives had been plentiful. In the event you attended a league-phase match you had over a 94.4% likelihood of seeing one.
There have been 144 video games in whole and solely eight of them resulted in a 0-0 draw.
Who leads the highest scorers race?
Barcelona’s Lewandowski and Borussia Dortmund’s Serhou Guirassy are the competitors’s prime scorers with 9 objectives every.
Each of them had been unable to topple Cristiano Ronaldo’s group-stage goalscoring file of 11 objectives in six video games for Actual Madrid in 2015-16, nevertheless.
Atalanta had been closely reliant on Belgium midfielder Charles de Ketelaere, who created probably the most assists with 5.
De Ketelaere additionally scored 4 instances and was immediately concerned in nearly half of his aspect’s objectives (9 of 20).
No one had extra purpose involvements than Raphinha although, who boasted eight strikes and 4 assists.
In whole, 34 gamers performed each minute of their aspect’s league-phase marketing campaign.
Who conceded probably the most?
Regardless of dropping 9-2 to Bayern Munich of their opening match, Dinamo Zagreb managed to keep away from having the league part’s leakiest defence, and even saved clear sheets in opposition to Pink Bull Salzburg and Celtic.
The undesirable most objectives conceded title was shared between Pink Bull Salzburg and Slovan Bratislava who let in 27 objectives – once more, a file for a Champions League group stage.
Bratislava caught with Dominik Takac between the posts with the keeper one of many 34 who performed each minute.
Inter Milan had the meanest defence, conceding only one purpose, in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen on matchday six.
Goalkeeper Jan Sommer began all of their video games.
Most playing cards – Man Metropolis the cleanest?
When it comes to reds, Monaco, Lille and Juventus all had two every.
Bologna obtained probably the most yellow playing cards (30) with AC Milan and Actual Madrid having the second most (26).
Manchester Metropolis obtained the fewest playing cards with 10 yellows. Additionally they dedicated the fewest fouls (61).
Atletico in kind, Sporting limp by means of
Lastly, a take a look at kind. After opening their marketing campaign with two defeats from three matches, Atletico Madrid have since been on the competitors’s longest profitable run (5 video games).
In distinction, Sporting Lisbon began robust however ended up reaching the play-offs on purpose distinction and have misplaced three and drawn considered one of their previous 4.
This season, 11 factors and a purpose distinction of -6 throughout eight video games was sufficient to keep away from elimination.
Watch highlights of each Champions League sport from 22:00 on Wednesday on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site and app.
There will even be a Champions League Match of the Day on BBC One on Wednesday, from 22:40 to 00:00.
