Girona vs Liverpool facts

Already through to the UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Liverpool will seek to continue their perfect record in this season's competition away to Girona, who are attempting to add to their solitary victory.

The six-time European champions made it five wins out of five with a 2-0 defeat of holders Real Madrid on Matchday 5, confirming their place in the round of 16 or the knockout phase play-offs.

Girona went down 1-0 at Sturm Graz last time out and have only three points, from a 2-0 win at home to Slovan Bratislava on Matchday 3.

This is the teams' first meeting, and Girona's first game against an English club.

Form guide

Girona

Girona are the 14th Spanish side to feature in the Champions League proper – one short of Germany's competition record.

Indeed, this is the first time Girona have taken part in UEFA competition. Leipzig, in 2017, are the only previous club to have made their European debut in the Champions League proper, an honour Girona have shared with Brest this season.

Girona are one of five clubs to be making their Champions League debuts in 2024/25, along with Aston Villa, Bologna, Brest and Slovan.

Míchel guided Girona to third place in last season's La Liga table on 81 points, 14 behind champions Real Madrid and only four adrift of runners-up Barcelona.

That was also Los Blanquivermells' highest league placing in what was only their fourth season in the Spanish top flight; they finished tenth in both 2017/18 and 2022/23 and 18th in 2018/19, when they were relegated.

At home in this season's Champions League, Girona have lost 2-3 to Feyenoord before beating Slovan.

Liverpool

Record vs Spanish clubs: W20 D13 L19 F68 A62
Away record vs Spanish clubs: W9 D5 L9

Liverpool's last four games against Spanish opponents have all come against Real Madrid, Matchday 5 ending a run of three successive defeats.

The Reds' most recent game in Spain was a 1-0 loss at Madrid in the 2022/23 round of 16 second leg (2-6 aggregate).

Liverpool now have seven victories in their last 22 fixtures against Spanish clubs (D3 L12) – a sequence that includes a 3-1 loss to Sevilla in the 2016 UEFA Europa League final and defeats by Real Madrid in the Champions League finals of 2018 (1-3) and 2022 (0-1).

The Merseysiders have lost seven of their last ten games away to Spanish teams (W2 D1) – although they won the two preceding their 2023 defeat at Real Madrid.

This is Liverpool's 16th Champions League campaign; they have reached the final five times, lifting the trophy in 2005 and 2019.

The Merseyside club last featured in 2022/23, finishing second in their section behind Napoli before elimination by Real Madrid in the round of 16.

Liverpool have won 15 of their last 20 away Champions League matches (D1 L4) including ten of the last 12; they have been victorious at AC Milan (3-1) and Leipzig (1-0) this season.

Jürgen Klopp's team took part in the Europa League in 2023/24, finishing first in their section before overwhelming Sparta Praha in the round of 16 (5-1 a, 6-1 h) but came up short against eventual winners Atalanta in the last eight (0-3 h, 1-0 a).

Liverpool were third in last season's Premier League. That was Klopp's last season in charge after nine years at Anfield; Arne Slot came in from Feyenoord to replace the German.

Links and trivia

Have played in England:
Paulo Gazzaniga (Southampton 2012–16, Tottenham 2017–21)
Daley Blind (Manchester United 2014–18)
Oriol Romeu (Chelsea 2011–13, Southampton 2015–23)
Donny van de Beek (Manchester United 2020–24, Everton 2021/22 loan)
Arnaut Danjuma (Bournemouth 2019–21, Tottenham 2022/23 loan, Everton 2023/24 loan)
Bryan Gil (Tottenham 2021–24)
Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough 2015–17)

Blind opened the scoring in Manchester United's 3-1 Premier League win at home to Liverpool on 12 September 2015.

Ladislav Krejčí was in the Sparta side that lost to Liverpool in last season's Europa League round of 16.

International team-mates:
Ladislav Krejčí & Vitězslav Jaroš (Czechia)
Daley Blind, Donny van de Beek & Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Gravenberch, Cody Gakpo (Netherlands)
Paulo Gazzaniga & Alexis Mac Allister (Argentina)

Latest news

Girona

Girona have eight wins in their 23 matches this season (D5 L10). They went down 0-3 at home to Real Madrid on Saturday.

Girona's ten defeats in all competitions is already two more than in the whole of 2023/24.

The Catalan club were knocked out of the Copa del Rey in the second round after a 0-0 draw and subsequent 4-3 penalty shoot-out loss at Logroñés on 4 December.

Jhon Solís missed the weekend defeat with an ankle injury.

Yangel Herrera was replaced early in Venezuela's 1-1 draw against Brazil on 14 November with a calf problem and has not played since.

Out from 2 October to 23 November with a hamstring injury, Viktor Tsygankov has not played since going off on Matchday 5 with a groin problem.

Liverpool

Saturday's Merseyside derby at Everton was postponed due to severe weather.

The Reds' seven-match winning streak in all competitions was ended by a 3-3 draw at Newcastle on 4 December, a match in which they conceded a late equaliser.

That was Liverpool's 14th Premier League game of the season and only the third they had not won (D2 L1).

Mohamed Salah scored twice to make it 13 goals and eight assists in this season's Premier League; he has found the net in his last seven appearances and is the joint-top scorer with Erling Haaland.

The Reds have 18 victories in 21 matches in all competitions in 2024/25.

Conor Bradley (thigh) and Ibrahima Konaté (knee) have not played since suffering injuries against Real Madrid on Matchday 5.

Konstantinos Tsimikas, whose last appearance came from Greece on 17 November, has been sidelined by an ankle injury.

Diogo Jota has been out since being replaced in the first half of a 2-1 home win against Chelsea on 20 October with an abdominal problem.

Alisson Becker, who was out between 17 and 28 September with a thigh problem, was replaced late on in a 1-0 win at Crystal Palace on 5 October due to a hamstring injury and has not played since.

Federico Chiesa has been out with a knock and has not played since 25 September.