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Liverpool’s wild 2019 Champions League final stat – “You’re joking, wow!” – Liverpool FC

May 31, 2025
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If we told you that Liverpool’s XI in the 2019 Champions League final only ever started that one game together, would you believe us?

In the sweltering Madrid heat at the Wanda Metropolitano on June 1, 2019, Jurgen Klopp named his starting XI as follows:

Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson; Fabinho, Henderson, Wijnaldum; Salah, Mane, Firmino

It’s a team that got the job done in a match “that wasn’t great in terms of a spectacle,” in the words of Jordan Henderson, lifting the first piece of silverware under Klopp.

It’s an iconic XI, one that all Liverpool supporters could list as the one that won both the Champions League and a year later the Premier League.

It also seems like a very familiar lineup. But, it wasn’t.

MADRID, SPAIN - SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019: Liverpool's captain Jordan Henderson lifts the European Cup following a 2-0 victory in the UEFA Champions League Final match between Tottenham Hotspur FC and Liverpool FC at the Estadio Metropolitano. (Pic by Paul Greenwood/Propaganda)

Incredibly, it was the only time that XI ever started a game together – a statistic we had to double and triple check, then ask LFC’s official statistician to check again for us.

And it’s a fact that Henderson struggled to believe, too.

“What, in that final? You’re joking, wow. What a stat that is!” Henderson exclaimed when told the stat in an exclusive interview with This Is Anfield in 2022.

“So they never played together before or after? That’s mad, that. Did you tell the gaffer that?” he laughs.

“I’m going to tell him if you never told him. I’m going to tell him when I see him!”

It is hard to believe that other than the final in Madrid, Klopp never started that XI in another match in any other competition, as each of the 11 sit inside the manager’s 12 most-used players at the club.

They were all in the squad together from 2018/19 to 2021/22 and for much of their time together, it was an obvious selection choice for the manager.

But for one reason or another, injury being at the top of that list, it was a one-time deal.

It puts an entirely different meaning on the 2019 history-makers – of whom only four remain six years later.



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