Tonight saw the Liverpool attacking triad of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane become the most prolific combination in UEFA Champions League history. Mane scored in the 9′ of the Reds’ 4-2 loss at Roma in the second leg of their semifinal tie, but the Reds still went through 7-6 on aggregate.
That Mane scoring strike gave the troika 29 goals in Europe this season, surpassing the 28 scored by the Real Madrid trio of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema during the 2013-14 European campaign. Coincidentally, the opponent for Liverpool, May 26 in the final, will be Los Blancos.
Roma and Liverpool produce the highest-scoring semi-final in #UCL history! (13 goals) ??? pic.twitter.com/M28Wa7N8zN
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) May 2, 2018
Mane has nine goals in UCL play this season, while Salah and Firmino have each scored 10. This will be the first time Liverpool have played in the final since 2007, and the seventh overall (the rest of England has combined for 11 in total). Tonight marked the first time that they have suffered a defeat in Champions League competition this term, but it doesn’t really matter, and who truly cares as they have advanced to the final in Kiev.
Should they win, this would be Liverpool’s sixth European Cup title.
29 – Mo Salah (10), Roberto Firmino (10) and Sadio Mane (9) are now the highest scoring trio for a club in a single #UCL campaign, overtaking Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema at Real Madrid in 2013-14 (28). Ménage.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) May 2, 2018
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