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Chelsea v Liverpool Superfacts

• Liverpool haven't won their first league match of the season against Chelsea in any of the last five years, despite being at home on four of those occasions.
• In none of the 22 Chelsea/Liverpool matches since Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea has the team that opened the scoring gone on to lose in ninety minutes.
• In four of Liverpool's last five league games their opponents have been reduced to ten men following a foul on Xabi Alonso. In the 48 minutes (excluding injury-time) that the Reds have played against ten men in those matches they have scored four goals and conceded none.
• Chelsea have yet to concede a second-half league goal under Luiz Felipe Scolari, but eleven of Liverpool's thirteen league goals have come after the interval, which means something has got to give.
• Steven Gerrard has scored just one goal in his 25 appearances against Chelsea and that was way back in the thirteenth game. He has scored just as many own goals against the Blues.
• In comparison, Frank Lampard managed three goals against Liverpool last season alone which made him the top scorer from last season's five clashes.
• Despite the heated nature of this rivalry has been at times, there have only been two sendings off in the twenty Chelsea/Liverpool matches since Rafael Benitez took charge of Liverpool - Pepe Reina and Michael Ballack. There have been no red cards in the last eight.