BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Date: Sunday, 21st April
Kick off: 15:00 GMT
Venue: Anfield
Head-to-head
• Liverpool have lost only two of their last 12 league meetings with Chelsea and are unbeaten in the last five encounters (W4, D1).
• Liverpool won last season's corresponding fixture 4-1 to exact revenge for their FA Cup final defeat three days earlier and end Chelsea's hopes of a top-four finish.
• The two clubs have met 33 times in various competitions in the last eight seasons. Chelsea won 13 of those games, and Liverpool 12.
Liverpool
• Liverpool have registered back-to-back goalless draws for the first time since December 2008. They have never drawn 0-0 in three top-flight matches in a row.
• They have taken 14 points out of the last available 21 (W4, D2, L1).
• The Reds are four points and 19 goals better off than at this stage last season.
• Only Manchester City have kept more clean sheets this season than Liverpool's 13.
• Luis Suarez needs one goal to become the first Liverpool player to score 30 in a season in all competitions since Fernando Torres in 2007-08.
• Steven Gerrard has scored 98 Premier League goals.
Chelsea
• Chelsea have five more points than at the same stage last season.
• They ended a three-match losing streak in away fixtures by beating Fulham 3-0 in midweek.
• Rafa Benitez managed Liverpool for six years from June 2004, winning the Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup.
• Fernando Torres has scored 14 goals in 75 league games for Chelsea; he reached 50 league goals after just 72 appearances for Liverpool - a club record. He has 32 goals in 122 appearances for Chelsea in all competitions, compared to 81 goals in 142 games for Liverpool.
• Frank Lampard made his 600th appearance for Chelsea in the midweek win over Fulham. He is two goals shy of Bobby Tambling's club record tally of 202.
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