Lots of stats from the LFC.TV website pre-Inter match:
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/features/stats/FS12495080217-1158.htmHere are all the important stats and facts ahead of our Champions League clash with Inter Milan on Tuesday night. # This is the fifth time Liverpool have reached the Second Stage of the Champions League.
# If Liverpool win tonight it will be their 100th win at Anfield in European competition. Their 3-1 European Cup Semi-Final First Leg victory over Inter in 1965 was their third.
# Liverpool finished second in Group A with ten points, one behind Porto.
# The Reds are looking to reach a European Cup Quarter-Final for the 12th time in their history while the Italians are aiming to reach the last eight in Europe's premier club competition for the 11th occasion.
# Steven Gerrard's opening goal in the 4-0 win in Marseille in December was his 23rd in Europe, breaking Michael Owen's club record.
# Gerrard has scored in each of the Reds last four European games – as he did at the beginning of the 2005-06 season.
# Including the final in Istanbul in 2005 he scored in five in a row. No player has ever achieved the feat in the same season.
# Steven's next goal at home will be the 50th of his career at Anfield.
# Rafa Benitez has faced Inter twice as coach of Valencia. In 2001-02 the Italians won 2-1 on aggregate after drawing the first leg in Milan. The following season the teams met in the last eight of the Champions League with Inter again going through, this time on away goals.
# Rafa took over as coach at Valencia in 2001 replacing Hector Cuper who left to take charge at Inter.
# Benfica two years ago were the last team to eliminate the Reds at this stage of the competition.
# Liverpool have met Italian opposition six times at Anfield. They have won four and lost two (to Genoa in 1992 and Roma in 2001-both in the UEFA Cup).
# The Reds have used 21 players during this European campaign with only Sami Hyypia and Pepe Reina starting each game.
# Jamie Carragher could make his 99th European appearance for Liverpool while if selected Sami Hyypia will move above Ian Callaghan and into outright second place on the club's European appearances list by playing his 90th game.
# Steven Gerrard, meanwhile, will edge above Tommy Smith into fourth place on his own by wearing the Liverpool shirt in Europe for the 86th time.
# Liverpool's win at Stade Velodrome in the last of the Group matches inflicted upon Marseille their heaviest ever home defeat in the Champions League and their first at home against English opposition.
# Inter's European Cup record: Pld 125 Won 64 Drawn 36 Lost 25 Goals For 186 Against 110.
# Their full European Record: Pld 291 Won 146 Drawn 75 Lost 70 Goals For 436 Against 249.
# The Italian club was founded on 9th March 1908 and will celebrate their centenary two days before the second leg.
# The name of the club derives from the wish of its founding members to ‘accept foreign players as well as Italians' hence the name Internazionale.
# Inter have won the European Cup twice in their history. In 1964 they defeated Real Madrid 3-1 in Vienna and then retained the trophy with a 1-0 victory over Benfica on their own ground – the San Siro.
# They have been beaten in the Final on two occasions. In 1967 they famously lost 2-1 to Celtic's ‘Lisbon Lions' and five years later were beaten 2-0 by Ajax in Rotterdam.
# They have won the Scudetto (league title) 15 times and the Coppa Italia on five occasions. Inter have also won the UEFA Cup three times and have lifted the World Club Championships twice.
# Last season Inter retained their Serie A title finishing 22 points ahead of second placed Roma losing just one of their 38 games.
# Their first season in the Champions League saw them reach the Quarter-Final in 1998-99. They also reached the last eight in 2004-05 and 2005-06.
# The furthest they have progressed was in 2002-03 when they were beaten in the Semi-Final by AC Milan. AC won the tie on away goals on their own ground!
# Last season they were eliminated at the first knockout stage by Valencia on away goals.
# The next goal they concede will be the 250th in their European history.
# They finished top of Group G four points ahead of Fenerbahce. After losing the opening game away to the Turkish side they won each of their last five games including both meetings with PSV and CSKA Moscow.
# That defeat in Turkey is the only one on their travels this season. They have won 11 and drawn four of their 16 games on the road in all competitions.
# They have lost only three away games out of the last 45 played in all competitions with the other defeats coming at Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League in September 2006 and Roma in the Coppa Italia Final in May 2007.
# Last month they booked their place in the Semi-Finals of the Coppa Italia by winning 3-2 at Juventus.
# They are currently 11 points clear of Roma at the top of Serie A.
# They have lost only two of their last 75 league and Cup games in Italy (both to Roma) while the last time they were beaten away from home in Serie A was back in April 2006 when Empoli won 1-0 thanks to a Marco Materazzi own goal.
# They scored 12 goals in the six Group games and only Porto (
and Chelsea (9) of the Group winners netted fewer.
# Inter's record against English clubs: Pld 24 Won 9 Draws 5 Lost 10 Goals For 30 Against 28.
# Guiseppe Meazza, who Inter's stadium is named after, played 408 matches for the club scoring 287 goals. He had two spells as coach 1946-48 and 1955-57. He died in 1979.
# Last season Roberto Mancini became only the third coach in the club's history to lead Inter to back-to-back league titles. Alfredo Foni (1953 & 1954) and Helenio Herrera (1965 and 1966) were the others.
# Five members of the Inter side that played against Valencia when Rafa Benitez was in charge in 2003 are still at the club-Francesco Toldo, Javier Zanetti, Ivan Cordoba, Marco Materazzi and Hernan Crespo.
# When Inter clinched the title in April 2007 both their goals in a 2-1 win at Siena were scored by ex-Everton defender Marco Materazzi.
# Hernan Crespo with nine, holds the club record for most goals in a Champions League campaign-doing so in 2002-03. He is one of only seven players to score against Liverpool in the Premier League and European competition.
