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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.
