Red Army Wins & Red Bull Loses! The Champions League is two days of ice and fire, rushing to Klopp!

The reporter reported coldly In the early morning of December 11, Beijing time, the Champions League of the new season entered the 6th match day and the last match day of the year. In the first nine games, Liverpool defeated Girona 1-0 away to win six consecutive games, becoming the only team to win all the first six rounds of the Champions League in the new season, and the Reds, who are seven points ahead of the ninth-place Atalanta, have also become the first team to qualify for the round of 16 two rounds in advance. In the same six rounds, RB Leipzig, the top brand of the Red Bull Group, was hard to find a point, becoming the first Champions League team to exit two rounds early. I wonder how Jurgen Klopp, the former Reds coach and head of global football at Red Bull next year, feels......

Slot's debut season at Liverpool included six consecutive Champions League wins, including beats over Milan and Real Madrid, the last team to start a six-game winning streak. Manchester City also won their first six Champions League games last season, when the Blues were like the Reds this season, topping the Premier League in their first six games and in the Premier League for the same period.

The six-game winning streak is second only to Liverpool's seven-game winning streak in the 2021/22 season of the Klopp era, when Liverpool won all six of their Champions League group stage games and conceded 17-6 goals, which is not as good as this season (13-1). Along with last season, Liverpool have won 10 consecutive Champions League group stages. Moreover, it was also Liverpool's 150th win in the Champions League, with the team playing a total of 254 games, a win rate of 59%.

However, Liverpool boss Slote was not satisfied with his team's performance in this game. The reason is naturally that in the face of the Champions League dark horse Girona, Liverpool only relied on Salah's penalty in the second half to win. Girona's attack was so dangerous that Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson, who made five saves in the game, was voted the best of the tournament.

Liverpool's defence has been key to their six-game winning streak, conceding just one goal in six games, and only Liverpool and Inter Milan can do it among the 36 teams in the Champions League this season. Liverpool's only goal conceded was against Milan in their opening game, while Inter kept a clean sheet in their first five games and conceded their first goal in a 1-0 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen this morning.

The previous Champions League conceded only one goal in the first six games of a single season, and it was Manchester City in 2020/21. However, at that time, Manchester City only won 5 and drew 1 in the group stage, and the results were not as good as Liverpool this season. With two rounds left in the Champions League regular season next year, Liverpool will play Lille and PSV Eindhoven home and away, hoping to equal or even break the team's all-time Champions League winning streak.

Liverpool have won six games in a row, but Bundesliga upstart RB Leipzig lost 2-3 at home to Aston Villa, suffered six consecutive defeats and exited two rounds in advance, becoming the only team among the 36 Champions League teams to lose all six games (the other two losing teams, Bratislava Slavs and Bern Juniors, have not yet started this round). It was also RB Leipzig's worst result in seven Champions League seasons since their first European appearance in 2017/18. They have won at least two of their first six games in the previous six seasons and four of their three Champions League group stage games, including a double of last season's Bern Juniors and Red Star Belgrade reaching the round of 16.

The last time the Champions League season started with six consecutive defeats, it was Plzen Victory and Glasgow Rangers in 2022/23. Since the 1992/93 Champions League was restructured, a total of 23 teams have lost their first six games, compared to only two in the top five leagues, Marseille (2013/14) and Villarreal (2011/12). In terms of goal difference, Villarreal (2-14) and Marseille (5-14) are both less than RB Leipzig (6-13) this season.

Marseille and Villarreal were both in the "Group of Death": Villarreal faced Bayern, Napoli and Manchester City in the group stage, and Marseille faced Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal and Napoli in the group stage, all of which were powerhouses in the top five leagues. In the new Champions League this season, RB Leipzig was also a devil in the first six rounds, with opponents including Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Liverpool and Inter Milan, four big league opponents.

Since the restructuring of the Champions League in 1992/93, RB Leipzig has had the worst result of a Bundesliga team in 98 Champions League competitions, breaking the two worst records for the most losses and the fewest points in the first six rounds of Champions League history. The previous worst results in the first six Champions League games were two draws and four defeats, with four in total: Union Berlin (2023/24), Borussia Dortmund (2015/16), Bayern Munich (2002/03) and Hertha Berlin (1999/2000). Hamburg lost five of their first six games in 2006/07, the most of any Bundesliga team in their first six Champions League games.

Ironically, despite the dismal results in the Champions League, RB Leipzig's temporary fourth place in the Bundesliga has left RB Leipzig's top brass with no choice but to wait until the start of the winter break on December 24 to consider the departure of coach Roze.

The British "Mirror" previously revealed that Ten Hag, who has just been sacked from Manchester United, is one of the targets of RB Leipzig's selection of managers, while former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has just taken over as Red Bull Group's global director of football, and RB Leipzig is the focus of his work. The two former rivals of the Premier League could join forces in the Bundesliga.