Liverpool next? How 6 treble winners navigated make-or-break April

April. Spring has arrived, the nights are longer and the football season has heated up – as these six previous treble winners discovered. Will the Liverpool side of 2022 match their feat?

The penultimate month of the season is reserved for huge matches; title showdowns, cup semi-finals and European heavyweight clashes feature heavily on our list.

With injuries mounting, fatigue at its highest and mind games feeding into the frenzy of it all, it’s surprising that any team can handle the pressure of mounting challenges on three trophies at once.

Liverpool may discover this over the next 30 days. They’ll face Manchester City in the league and FA Cup, alongside a Champions League quarter-final with Benfica and huge derby matches with Everton and Manchester United.

It’s officially April:

• Watford (H)

• Benfica (A – UCL QF)

• Man City (A)

• Benfica (H – UCL QF)

• Man City (FA Cup SF)

• Man United (H)

• Everton (H)

• Possible UCL SF

• Newcastle (A)

The biggest month in Liverpool history?

— Anfield Edition (@AnfieldEdition) March 31, 2022

Will they still be in all competitions at the end of April? That remains to be seen.

But Jurgen Klopp and his Liverpool players will surely be looking for some historical pointers as immortality beckons. They’ve already got the League Cup under their belt and are vying to become the first side in history to complete the quadruple.

Meanwhile, Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City can still match United’s famous treble of ’99. For once they didn’t win the League Cup but they’re still going strong on all three major fronts.

We’ve gone through the archives and discovered how the six treble-winning sides from Europe’s major leagues navigated the make-or-break month of April.

United only played three