Champions League – Advantage Liverpool?

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Liverpool, who need just a goalless draw to reach the semi-finals, have kept clean sheets in their last five home games against fellow-English opponents. Get all the facts and figures ahead of tonight’s Champions League quarter-final, second legs.

LIVERPOOL V ARSENAL

Head-to-head record in Europe:

Played: 1

Draws: 1

Goals: Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1

Previous game:

CL: QF 2.04.08 Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1

Previous appearances in last four:

Champions League – Liverpool 2, Arsenal 1

European Cup – Liverpool 8, Arsenal 1

All European competitions – Liverpool 14, Arsenal 6

Leading Champions League 07-08 scorers:

Liverpool – Steven Gerrard 5

Arsenal – Cesc Fabregas 4

* Liverpool, who need just a goalless draw to reach the semi-finals, have kept clean sheets in their last five home games against fellow-English opponents. The only English team to score at Anfield in six European games was Leeds United who won 1-0 in the 1971 Fairs Cup semi-finals.

* Liverpool have won six of their last seven European home games and 10 of their last 12.

* Liverpool are unbeaten in their last six Champions League games in which they have scored 20 goals and conceded only two.

* Arsenal drew 1-1 away to Chelsea at the same stage of the competition four years ago, the only previous time they have been drawn against an English team in Europe.

* Arsenal have kept clean sheets in 11 of their last 15 European away games and have won nine of the last 16.

* Arsenal, who must score to have a chance of advancing, have netted only once away in three Champions League quarter-finals – at Chelsea in 2004. They lost 1-0 to Valencia in 2001 and drew 0-0 with Juventus in 2006.

CHELSEA V FENERBAHCE

Head-to-head record:

Played: 1

Wins: Fenerbahce: 1

Goals: Fenerbahce 2 Chelsea 1

Previous game:

CL: QF 2.04.08 Fenerbahce 2 Chelsea 1

Previous appearances in last four:

Champions League – Chelsea 3, Fenerbahce 0

European Cup – Chelsea 3, Fenerbahce 0

All European competitions – Chelsea 8, Fenerbahce 0

Leading Champions League 07-08 scorers:

Fenerbahce – Deivid 5

Chelsea – Didier Drogba 4

* Chelsea are unbeaten in their last 10 Champions League home games, conceding a mere three goals. They have kept clean sheets in 11 of their last 15.

* However, Chelsea lost their last home game to a Turkish club. Besiktas won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge in the 2003-04 season. Since then they have lost just one of 25 Champions League home matches.

* Chelsea need two goals to reach 100 scored in the Champions League in their 68th game.

* Fenerbahce are aiming to become only the second Turkish team to reach the semi-finals of the European Cup. Galatasaray were in the last four in 1989, losing to Steaua Bucharest.

* Fenerbahce have lost on four of six previous visits to England and won just once – beating Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford in the 1996-97 season.

* Fenerbahce have won just two of 16 Champions League away games, losing 11.