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How well do you know your Elite club football - don't bet on CL without this knowledge

[Alex Ferguson lifts the Premier League title in 2011.]

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Alex Ferguson lifts the Premier League title in 2011.(Image: (Photo by AMA/Corbis via Getty Images))

Manchester United's reign as the club with the most English top-flight league titles ended last weekend when Liverpool beat Spurs 5-1 at Anfield.

It had been a lengthy run all the same, United had won their 20th title as far back as the 2010-11 season.

From herein though, the Champions League will take centre stage, the first legs taking place this week as Arsenal host Paris Saint-Germain on the Tuesday before Inter travel to Barcelona for Wednesday's other semi-final.

We, along with Opta stats, will firstly take a look at some of the key stats in the ongoing Liverpool-Manchester United rivalry before throwing the net over the CL last four.

How well do you know your elite football?

Liverpool won their first English top-flight title in 1900-01, and had two to their name before United won their first in 1907-08 and led by three after their fifth title in 1946-47.

But the pendulum was turning as Arsenal started to prosper and after Uniteds success in 1966-67, the pair were tied at seven apiece...

Before the Merseyside club took over again and under Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, the Reds won 11 unanswered titles between 1972 and 1990.

Alex Fergusons United hit back emphatically once the Premier League arrived, winning 13 titles between 1992 and 2013 during a drought for their rivals that saw the Red Devils go 20-18 ahead of them.

Liverpool have come back to the table in recent years though, winning the 2019-20 title to get within one, before Sundays success brought them level at 20 apiece.

Both clubs are still well clear of anyone else; Arsenal are third on 13 titles, Manchester City behind them on 10. No other team has reached double figures.

However the manager's tale is slightly different. Alex Ferguson holds the record here having won 13 Premiership (est 1992/93) titles. Pep Guardiola has won six, Arsene Wenger three and Jose Mourinho three.

The numbers for the combined Premiership and old First Division might shock although Alex Ferguson still top with 13.

He is followed by Aston Villa's George Ramsey who along with Bob Paisley and Pep Guardiola has won six. Sunderland/Liverpool's Tom Watson and Manchester United's Matt Busby have won five.

Meanwhile Arsenal, PSG, Barcelona and Inter Milan comprise the last four standing in the Champions League make it through to the final in Munich and with, specifically, Arsenal and PSG looking to lose the tag of being in the European Cup/Champions League the most times without ever winning it.

Bara havent lost any of their six home matches in the Champions League this season (W5 D1), scoring 21 goals in the process.

That's a lot of goals, only in 1999-2000 have they ever found the net more often at home in a single European Cup/Champions League campaign (29).

The Blaugrana will be without injured top scorer and Poland superstar Robert Lewandowski, who has scored 40 goals in 48 games this season, including 11 in the Champions League.

Inter Milan have only been trailing for one percent of their game-time in the Champions League this season, the lowest of any team in the competition. Arsenal are next with six percent.

Strangely, Simone Inzaghis side have only been behind against German teams, conceding a 90th-minute goal versus Bayer Leverkusen in a 1-0 loss in the league phase and trailing for just six minutes in the second leg of their quarter-final victory over Bayern Munich.

The Nerazzurri have also been beaten in their last three games in all competitions, losing to rivals AC Milan in the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia and falling three points behind Napoli in the race for the Scudetto after back-to-back Serie A losses to Bologna and Roma.

Also, Inter lost three games in a row without scoring, a first time since February in a run that lasted five games at that time.

Arsenal are favourites with the Opta supercomputer to win it all (31.3%) and go into their semi-final with PSG unbeaten in their last eight games in the Champions League (W7 D1).

This is their second-longest run without defeat within a single edition, following a 12-game streak in 2005-06 (W8 D4), when they achieved their only appearance in the final (finishing as runners-up to Barcelona).

At the same time, Arsenal have won seven of their last 15 games in all competitions (D6 L2), and Mikel Artetas side have drawn each of their last two home matches (vs Brentford, Crystal Palace), throwing away a lead in both games.

Paris Saint-Germain have won 11 of their last 15 (D1 L3) with the last of those defeats coming last weekend when they lost 3-1 to Nice in Paris. They had been unbeaten at home to that point.

Given they had drawn 1-1 the previous Tuesday at Nantes, beat Le Harve 2-1 in Paris two weekends back and lost 3-2 to Aston Villa before that again, the French side have only one win in their last four games.

Luis Enriques side have one of the form players in the world in Ousmane Dembl, who has been directly involved in 10 goals in the Champions League this season (seven goals, three assists)

He could equal the record for most goal involvements by a PSG player in a single edition, currently held by Kylian Mbapp (11 in 2020-21 eight goals, three assists).

Moreover PSG have lost five of their last six away matches against English teams in the Champions League (W1), losing against four different opponents in this run (Manchester City x2, Arsenal, Newcastle, and Aston Villa.

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