Cutting edge
One of the biggest issues for Liverpool this term has been profligacy – we’re simply not taking our chances.
Only three teams have taken more shots per goal this season in the Premier League than our 15.6, but those teams are Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal – the league’s three top scoring sides. We’ve only managed 31 goals in 22 matches – far behind the clinical finishing tallies of the Gunners, Man City and our opponents this evening, who have managed 39, 45 and 51 respectively.
We ought to have comfortably won the first leg, having taken 19 shots to Chelsea’s two, and if we can improve our deadliness in front of goal, we might get the results we deserve.