At Anfield, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah scored to help Liverpool lead Real Madrid with a score of 2-0. But the impressive double of Vinicius and Karim Benzema was mixed with an Eder Militao strike to help the Champions League champions come back up to beat Liverpool 5-2.
Beating Liverpool, Real Madrid has set a series of impressive records. They became the first away team to score 5 goals against Liverpool in the European Cup. In fact, Real were also the first away team to score four goals against Liverpool at Anfield, but they broke their record when Benzema completed the brace.
Karim Benzema became the first player to score 6 goals against Liverpool (total previous meetings). Vinicius also rose to second on this list with 5 goals. The duo of Real strikers together overcome the former famous player Didier Drogba, who has scored 4 goals against Liverpool in the European Cup.
In addition, Benzema also equaled Messi’s number of consecutive Champions League scoring seasons (18).
With Vinicius, he became the youngest player to score twice against Liverpool at Anfield since the days of “holy” Johan Cruyff. Vinicius is also the second youngest Real Madrid player to score in three consecutive Champions League matches, after Raul.
In the end, Real Madrid was the first team to come back from being 2 goals ahead to win with a difference of 3 or more goals in the Champions League. This record counts in both home and away matches of the tournament.
