Arne Slot breaks 19-year Liverpool club RECORD

Liverpool have been dominant in the Premier League this season, sitting six points clear with a game in hand on second place.

But in the Champions League, the Reds have somehow managed to be even more rampant, winning six out of six matches.

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In any other season, Liverpool would already find themselves top of their group and safely through to the Last 16, and while it is certainly true that the team has qualified for the knock-out stage, the team still has two more games to go because of the new format in play this season.

Nonetheless, the team's record is still extraordinary and while the Reds were in action tonight against Lille, they set a new club record which spans back to the 2005/06 season under Rafa Benitez's leadership.

Slot's Reds racing to new heights

Since the opening game of their European campaign this season, where Christian Pulisic put AC Milan 1-0 up just three minutes into the tie, Liverpool have yet to concede a goal in the Champions League.

Nothing for the remaining 87 minutes of that visit to the San Siro, nothing against Bologna, Girona, Real Madrid, Leverkusen, Leipzig and Lille so far either.

That length of time equates to 572 minutes, breaking a record set by Beneitez's Reds off the back of the historic Champions League winning season when the team beat the Milan superteam in Istanbul.

Arne Slot has achieved such a feat by using captain Virgil Van Dijk as a mainstay in the defensive line while changing up his centre-back partners from time to time.

For the opening five games in Europe this season, it was Ibrahima Konate who could be credited the most for helping to achieve such an imperious record, although Joe Gomez stepped in for the team's visit to Girona in December and Jarrell Quansah has been alongside the Dutchman in tonight's game against Lille.

It was rumoured that Liverpool could rest and rotate some players for this evening's contest because the team's position in the 'league phase' table is already likely to give them a favourable opponent in the last 16, however, Slot was aware that in this new format, every game counts.

The club is set to earn £1.7m for each win they notch up and finishing top of the league will give the club a further financial bonus.

In addition, the higher up the table you finish, the better you are positioned for a deep run in the knock-out phase of the competition, so it made sense for the club to make use of the platform it has created for itself.

As such, Slot decided to put out a strong starting XI with minimal changes from the Reds' win against Brentford at the weekend, a move that has been rewarded by the team etching itself into more club folklore in Europe's most prestigious competition.

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