Liverpool 2 Lille 1: Reds maintain 100% Champs League record as Salah & Elliott put Kop club on brink of winning league
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MO SALAH claimed his 50th European goal for Liverpool as Arne Slot’s side stuck a red flag on the summit of the Champions League table. Harvey Elliott continued what has been an astonishing first campaign for the Dutchman who succeeded Jurgen Klopp.
![[Liverpool's Szoboszlai challenges Lille's Cabella for the ball during a Champions League match.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/every-second-media-alamy-live-965606810.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
For while the German will always be seen as one of Anfield’s true icons, history so far suggests that Slot may yet over time be at least as revered. At this rate, anyway. Elliott’s 67th strike against a side reduced to ten men early in the second half means Slot’s men equalled the club’s best – ever sequence of seven successive wins the competition, a run set, of course, by Klopp.
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Yet when so many within the Kop feared his departure last summer might signal a down- sizing of intent, the current side just get better and better. They also sit top of the Prem. Nobody would suggest they won’t be there at the end. They way things are going in Europe, nobody could say that they become the No 1 team on the continent – and follow Klopp’s 2019 success – is beyond them either.
![[Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez celebrating a goal.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/liverpools-mohamed-salah-celebrates-teammate-965602405.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The most impressive aspect of Liverpool’s approach to this clash was their control. This didn’t need to be a raucous night. It was only really ever about ensuring progress and especially against opponents who were anything but mugs. Say what you like about French football and how soft it might be by comparison to the Premier League but Bruno Grensio’s side touched down boasting a club record 21 games unbeaten.
![[Jonathan David scoring a goal during a soccer match.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jonathan-david-lille-scores-sides-965610145.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
