Salah furious, wants revenge on Real VARdrid and prepares for it

Real Madrid and Liverpool, along with Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain, form the best line-up in the last 16 of this edition of the Champions League and their clash, a repeat of the last final, which Madrid won, also represents a new historic clash in another classic of the competition that makes Jürgen Klopp and Mo Salah assume the serious problem that has been dragging on since Steven Gerrard with Los Blancos.

It is true that it is difficult to have a positive record against Real Madrid in the Champions League, both recently and historically, but it is also true that the German coach and the Egyptian are aware that they are part of a problem that has not happened for quite some time: they are unable to finish off the Spaniards.

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It hasn't happened since Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Xabi Alonso and Co. back in the 2008/09 campaign, when the English side thrashed Madrid 5-0 on aggregate in the last 16: 1-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu and 4-0 at Anfield. At the time, Liverpool had always beaten Madrid, with those two matches and the 1981 final, but since then everything has changed.

Since then, the Reds and Whites have met six times and in every possible scenario the Beatles' side have come out on the losing side. They did so in the group stage of the 2014/15 campaign, when they lost 3-0 at Anfield, with an excellent performance from Cristiano Ronaldo, and also at the Whites' stadium, 1-0. After that, there have been more steps, all of which have gone against the Premier League side.

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Two of those came in the knockout stages of the 2020/21 campaign, when Madrid managed to take a 3-1 lead from the Bernabéu and then in England the two sides played out a goalless draw, with Chelsea eliminating Madrid in the semi-finals. But perhaps the most painful for Klopp and Salah have been the two lost finals, in the 2017/18 campaign, with those two Gareth Bale goals, and last season's 1-0 defeat, with Vinicius Júnior scoring from Fede Valverde's pass. It is a fact that Klopp and Salah have never beaten Madrid with Liverpool in the top continental competition and history weighs on them: 5 wins to 3 defeats for the Chamartin side.