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Liverpool, Liverpool at the top of the league

Liverpool are at the top of the UEFA Champions League and have Simon Mignolet to thank. In 2024!

Liverpool officially end matchweek four at the top of the UEFA Champions League. The Reds have won all four games, with an emphatic 4-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen their latest triumph.

They are also the only team with four wins. Aston Villa had the chance to join them on Wednesday night but went down 1-0 at Club Brugge.

Ben Doak thrives

Fortunately for the Reds, there is a new option for the right wing from their own ranks.

Ben Doak, 18, joined from Celtic back in 2022 and after his fair share of injury problems is finally putting together some consistent form.

The Scotland international is currently on loan at Middlesbrough in the Championship and has been praised by Boro fans and watchers of the league as a whole for his electrifying performances.

Arne Slot has won 14 of his first 16 games, lost one and drawn one, becoming the first manager in Premier League history to achieve such a feat in their first 16 games in all competitions.

Arne Slot is literally enjoying the best start a manager has ever had in the Premier League and his side don’t look set to slow down any time soon.

Luis Diaz, Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo are all in electric form up front, Ryan Gravenberch and Curtis Jones have come on in leaps and bounds under their new coach and Liverpool’s backline looks the most solid it has been in years.

An Anfield first

Liverpool are now the only team to have won all four Champions League games. That could change tonight, with Aston Villa yet to play, but as things stand, the Reds are in the lead.

They are now top of the league as a result – something that is an outright first for the club. There has never actually been a league in the Champions League before this season, after all.

But the new format offered the chance and Liverpool took it. They are top of the Champions League (as well as the Premier League, we’d like to add) and the fans took advantage of that.

The Anfield crowd chanted “Liverpool, top of the league, Liverpool Liverpool, top of the league” towards the end of the match. It is a first for the song in Europe, as it has never made sense before, to meet the first Liverpool set with their results in the table.

Castle’s secret formula

Liverpool’s midweek Champions League clash against Bayer Leverkusen was arguably Arne Slott’s biggest challenge to date and he smashed it.

Despite another slow start, the Reds were able to claim a 4-0 win over a team that hasn’t lost away from home in 18 months.

The line-up raised some eyebrows before kick-off, with Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo starting next to each other.

Diaz would play through the middle and his performance will have given Slot the opposite of a selection headache, now a clear front three that will make Liverpool unstoppable.

The Colombian showed just how good he can be through the middle, a position the Reds are a little short in, by scoring his first ever Liverpool hat-trick.