Liverpool vs. Villarreal: Head-to-head record and past meetings ahead of Anfield Champions League game

Liverpool are acceptable to instrumentality to Champions League enactment connected Tuesday, erstwhile they invited Villarreal to Anfield.

The Reds person enjoyed a cleanable commencement to their European campaign, winning their archetypal 2 fixtures successful the competition, and they are presently successful 5th spot successful the league phase.

Tuesday's visitors person 3 points from six, and they are presently 14th, though the did negociate to bushed Napoli successful matchweek 2 of the competition.

Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look astatine the head-to-head grounds and erstwhile meetings betwixt Liverpool and Villarreal.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 4

Liverpool wins: 3

Draws: 0

Villarreal wins: 1

Meetings betwixt Liverpool and Villarreal person not been peculiarly common, with the sides having met conscionable 4 times.

The wide grounds is successful the Reds' favour, with 3 wins from those 4 games, and they volition anticipation to triumph a 4th consecutive lucifer against the visitors erstwhile they conscionable successful October 2026.

Villarreal's lone occurrence against the Merseysiders came successful the 2015-16 Europa League, erstwhile the 2 clashed successful the semi-finals of the contention successful April 2016.

Substitute Adrian Lopez came connected from the seat to people the lone extremity of the contention successful the 92nd minute, and that near Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool needing to overturn a shortage successful the 2nd leg.

The German caput manager oversaw a 3-0 triumph astatine Anfield successful May 2016 acknowledgment to an aboriginal ain extremity from Bruno Soriano, arsenic good arsenic strikes from Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana.

Liverpool would person to hold astir six years earlier gathering the Spanish broadside again, but the 2 met successful the semi-finals of the 2021-22 Champions League.

The archetypal limb was held astatine Anfield successful May 2022, with the hosts emerging arsenic 2-0 victors aft a beardown second-half show that resulted successful an ain extremity from Pervis Estupinan and a onslaught from Sadio Mane.

Villarreal would combat backmost successful the 2nd leg, scoring the archetypal 2 goals of the lucifer successful May 2022 earlier the half-time whistle.

Unfortunately for Unai Emery's side, Liverpool's Fabinho, Luis Diaz and Mane netted aft the interval to safely usher Liverpool into final, though Klopp would suffer 1-0 against Real Madrid and miss retired connected the Champions League trophy.

Previous meetings

May 03, 2022: Villarreal 2-3 Liverpool (Champions League)

Apr 27, 2022: Liverpool 2-0 Villarreal (Champions League)

May 05, 2016: Liverpool 3-0 Villarreal (Europa League)

Apr 28, 2016: Villarreal 1-0 Liverpool (Europa League)

Last 2 Champions League meetings

May 03, 2022: Villarreal 2-3 Liverpool (Champions League)

Apr 27, 2022: Liverpool 2-0 Villarreal (Champions League)

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