Liverpool vs Real Madrid LIVE updates, LIV 0-0 RMA, Champions League 2024-25: Courtois with an excellent save from Nunez’s shot, match updates

SAVE- The Madrid backline is suddenly under pressure after a surging Liverpool attack. Mendy fails to clear the ball as it takes a touch off Jones and falls in the path of Nunez. Nunez blasts the ball from close distrance but Courtois makes himself big to save from point-blank range. 

Guler goes for goal but his shot has too much power, sending the ball out of play. 

Nunez fouls Camavinga near the Liverpool box and Real Madrid has a freekick in a good position. Guler is standing over the ball. 

Valverde bursts past his marker and sends a cross in from the right but it is overhit and the ball goes straight to Salah. 

LIV booking: Ryan Gravenberch sees a yellow card for showing dissent after the referee gave a foul in Real Madrid’s favour. Van Dijk stopped a Real Madrid counter by bringing down Mbappe. 

Bookings: Asencio and Nunez have both recieved a yellow card for getting into that tussle. 

Nunez has gone down inside the Madrid box after a coming together with Asencio. The replay shows the two player getting into an unnecessary tussle, which ends with Asencio throwing an arm at Nunez. 

Diaz gets the ball inside the box and shoots hard and low, trying to beat Courtois at his near-post. However, he fails to keep his effort on target. 

Van Dijk’s loose pass allows Guler to get the ball in the final third and make a run inside the Liverpool box. He tries to get past Robertson but ends up running the ball out of play. Good covering there by Robertson. 

CLOSE - Real Madrid loses the ball and Liverpool launches a counter-attack. Nunez passes the ball to Salah, who sends the ball to him again. Nunez ventures inside the box and goes for a low shot across the face of the goal. Courtois gets a touch but it is not enough as the ball seemed to be rolling inside the net but Asencio is there to make a goal line clearance. 

The Champions League 2024-25 group stage match between Liverpool and Real Madrid is underway at the Anfield Stadium. 

Previous meetings: 11

Liverpool wins: 3

Draws: 1

Real Madrid wins: 7

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Real Madrid playing Liverpool in the Champions League has twice in recent years been a final between arguably the two best teams in the competition.

Their next meeting, however, finds two storied powers in starkly different positions at the midway point of the 36-team single-league standings format. One is in first place, and the other a lowly 18th. 

It is not defending champion Madrid on top despite adding Kylian Mbappé to the roster that won a record-extending 15th European title in May. 

Madrid has lost two of four games in the eight-round opening phase — and against teams that are far from challenging for domestic league titles: Lille and AC Milan.