Ironically, the only other team to achieve this was Ajax, against Panathinaikos in 1996. Tottenham are the second team to make the final after losing the first leg of their semifinal at home. This will make the 2019 final just the second time that the Champions League's showpiece event will be contested between teams that finished second in the group stage (the other was Bayern Munich v Inter Milan in 2010). Tottenham and Liverpool were both runners-up in their respective groups, clinching safe passage to the knockouts only after the final round of group matches. This is also the first time that Barcelona have been eliminated in the knockouts stage of the Champions League when Lionel Messi has scored in at least one of the two legs. 1Ījax picked the worst possible time for an unlikely collapse - the defeat was their first ever Champions League loss in 56 games when scoring first (won 45, drew 10). Liverpool overcame a 0-3 first-leg deficit against Barcelona to win 4-0 in front of a boisterous Anfield crowd, while Tottenham rallied from 0-2 down in the first half of the second leg (0-3 on aggregate) to score three second-half goals and stun a packed Amsterdam Arena.Īs we look forward to a final few saw coming, here are the best numbers from the madness of the last two days.
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