Team news and key Opta statistics for Tuesday's Champions League clash semi-final between Liverpool and AS Roma at Anfield.
Tuesday April 24
Champions League
Liverpool v AS Roma
- Date & kick-off time: Tuesday April 24, 1945 BST
- Venue: Anfield
- TV coverage: BT Sport
- Sky Bet odds: Liverpool - 8/15, draw - 10/3, Roma - 9/2
Team news
Liverpool defender Nathaniel Clyne is back in training but is likely to be on the bench for the Champions League semi-final first leg at home to Roma.
The England international missed Saturday's draw against West Brom with a muscle injury but has now recovered, although Trent Alexander-Arnold - rested at The Hawthorns - is expected to start against the Italians.
Manager Jurgen Klopp will recall all his big names after making five changes at the weekend, meaning a return for the likes of Dejan Lovren, Andrew Robertson, Roberto Firmino and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Liverpool (from): Karius, Alexander-Arnold, Lovren, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Milner, Salah, Firmino, Mane, Mignolet, Gomez, Clyne, Klavan, Moreno, Wijnaldum, Woodburn, Solanke, Ings.
Opta statistics
- This is the sixth European meeting between Liverpool and Roma and the first since March 2002 in the second group stage of the Champions League – of the previous five, Liverpool have won two, with two draws and one Roma win.
- Liverpool are yet to lose to Roma in the European Cup/Champions League in three meetings (W1 D2), with one of those draws in the 1984 final, which Liverpool won 4-2 on penalties in the Stadio Olimpico.
- This is Liverpool’s 10th appearance in the semi-final of the European Cup/Champions League – they’ve progressed to the final on seven of the previous nine occasions, losing only in 1964-65 against Internazionale and in 2007-08 against Chelsea.
- Roma are appearing in their first European semi-final for 27 years, when they faced Brøndby in the UEFA Cup in 1990-91. Their only previous European Cup/Champions League semi-final was in 1983-84, when they eliminated Dundee United to face Liverpool in the final.
- Liverpool haven’t won the first leg of a European semi-final in any of their last seven attempts (D3 L4), since a 4-0 win over Panathinaikos in the European Cup in 1984-85.
- The Reds have scored 33 goals in this season’s competition, the most by an English team in a single Champions League campaign.
- Roma have won just one of their last 14 away Champions League games (D5 L8), a 2-1 win at Qarabag earlier this season.
- The Yellow and Reds have also won just one of their 19 European away matches in England (D7 L11), although that win was at Anfield in February 2001 in the UEFA Cup – current manager Eusebio Di Francesco was an unused sub in that game.
- Two of the three players to have had a hand in at least 10 goals in the Champions League this season are Liverpool players – Roberto Firmino (8 goals and 4 assists) and Mohamed Salah (8 goals and 2 assists).
- Edin Dzeko has been involved in six of Roma’s last eight away Champions League goals (5 goals, 1 assist) – the Bosnian has scored two goals in his last three starts at Anfield against Liverpool (both for Man City in January 2012 and March 2015).
- Mo Salah has scored in each of his last four Champions League starts for Liverpool – the only Reds player to score in five consecutively was Steven Gerrard between October 2007 and February 2008.
- Roma are without a clean sheet in their last 26 away Champions League matches; the second longest run in the competition’s history behind only Celtic, who went 30 away matches without one between 2001 and 2016.
