On April 14, Beijing time, the second matchday of the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals ended, Manchester City drew 0-0 with Atletico Madrid, the aggregate score was 1-0 to advance, and Liverpool drew 3-3 with Benfica, with an aggregate score of 6-4 promotion. Two games have set a number of records, so let's take stock.
Atletico 0-0 Manchester City
1. This is Manchester City's 100th Champions League match, with 55 wins in the first 99 games, the highest winning rate of the first 100 games in the Champions League, and the entire European football world is second only to Real Madrid in the first 100 games and 57 games.
2. City's 8 shots on goal in the first half, without firing on target, was the most 0 shots on goal since the statistics were available in the 2003-04 season.
3. Manchester City have not conceded a goal in two quarter-finals after the Champions League round of 16, 5-0 Portugal Sport, and this is the fourth time in the history of the Champions League, after AC Milan in 2004-05, Arsenal in 2005-06 and Juventus in 2016-17.
4. For the first time since 1999, Atletico have been eliminated by teams in the same league for two consecutive years in European competitions. In 1998 and 1999, they were eliminated by Lazio and Parma in the UEFA Cup.
5. For the first time in Manchester City's history, he has advanced to the Champions League Final Four for two consecutive years and the third time in team history, the first time in the 2015-16 season.
Liverpool 3-3 Benfica
1. Konat's header opened the scoring, becoming the fourth player in Liverpool history to score in both legs of the Champions League quarter-finals, the first three being Crouch (2006-07 against Eindhoven), Salah (2017-18 against Manchester City) and Firmino (2018-19 against Porto).
2. Conat is also the fifth French player in history to score in both legs of the Champions League quarter-finals, the top four being Weedek (1995-96), Karembu (1997-98), Mbappe (2016-17) and Benzema (this season).
3. Firmino scored 11 goals in all competitions this season, the fourth player in the team to score in doubles, the top three being Salah's 28 goals, Jota's 21 goals and Mane's 16 goals.
4. Firmino scored twice, scoring 20 Champions League goals for Liverpool, the fourth player in the history of the team to score at least 20 goals in the Champions League, followed by Gerrard, Salah and Mane.
5. Núñez has scored 32 goals in all competitions this season, surpassing Kylian Mbappe with 31 goals, ranking fourth in Europe, behind Levan with 47 goals, Benzema with 38 goals and Alai with 33 goals.
6. Liverpool reached the champions league final four for the 12th time, equalling Manchester United and tied for england's most, having won nine of the previous 11 semi-finals.
7. Klopp reached the Champions League semi-finals for the fourth time in his coaching career, and the German coaches tied heynckes and Heathfield, with the most. In the previous three Champions League semi-finals, Uncle Scum finally led the team to the final.