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Salah curls in superb opener and dinks in second against former club
Mane and Firmino (2) make it 5-0
Dzeko & Perotti penalty give Italian side a lifeline
Oxlade-Chamberlain replaced by Wijnaldum following awkward fall
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Real AP: The key for Liverpool will be Firmino and his movement to open space for Salah and Mane. Also how can Hendo and Milner lock down the mid and let Ox free. Lovren needs a big game too.
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Robbie Fowler
Former Liverpool striker on BBC Radio 5 Live
I rate Edin Dzeko very highly, I am surprised City let him go. He has got a lot more in the locker that just being a tall striker. He can score goals out of the blue, he has scored massively important goals, like he did for City.
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Scoobert: The thought of Lovren & Dzeko going head to head is making me nervous, given how Lovren was bullied about by Romelu Lukaku in the defeat by Man Utd not so long ago.
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Image source, Rex FeaturesRoma have 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.
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A touch of class from Roma as they took time out from their preparations for this game to pay their respects to the 96 Liverpool fans who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster.
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Robbie Fowler
Former Liverpool striker on BBC Radio 5 Live
It is a different pressure for Liverpool, I don’t think the manager will allow players to be complacent. Not many gave them a chance against Manchester City, the same with Roma when they were 4-1 down. As much as Liverpool on paper are favourites there will be no complacency. They won’t allow that.
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Image source, Getty ImagesOur colleagues over at CBBC have put together a little Champions League quiz.
Have a go to see what you know about the last four teams in the competition.
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Strong Liverpool lineup, going for a 2 - 0 LFC win. But just look at the bench... one injury to our starting 11 and I see a big chink in our armour, especially if we miss any of the big 3 for the 2nd leg/potential final.
Richard
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Mo Salah greets his former Roma team-mate Radja Nainggolan with a handshake and a big smile.
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Robbie Savage
Ex-Leicester City & Wales midfielder on BBC Radio 5 live
It is important Roma don’t play a high line, important they sit deep with the threat of Liverpool’s front three. I think the midfield battle will be important. Strootman, De Rossi, Nainggolan against Oxlade-Chamberlain, Henderson and Milner, it will be a good battle in there, that is where the game is going to be won and lost.
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Both teams are back to full strength after resting players at the weekend - five changes for Liverpool, six for Roma.
Roberto Firmino, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and defenders Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dejan Lovren and Andrew Robertson come in for Liverpool. Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane both played in the 2-2 draw with West Brom and keep their places.
Image source, .For Roma, ex-Manchester City pair Edin Dzeko and Aleksandar Kolarov start - as do captain Daniele de Rossi, highly rated youngster Cengiz Under and Alessandro Florenzi and Juan Jesus. Liverpool will have to watch all-action midfielder Radja Nainggolan closely - he scored in the 3-0 win over SPAL and starts on the left side of a front three.
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Lots of red in the air outside the ground as kick off approaches.
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James Horncastle
BBC Radio 5 live's Euro Leagues Football Show
Liverpool are the team going into this under pressure as they’re so close to the final now. Their fans believe and expect them to get there. This is a club who are much more part of European football’s nobility than Roma are.
With Roma, the belief that has forged within this team should not be underestimated.
Liverpool think they have a sense of destiny playing the team they beat in 1984, that they have won this competition several times. Roma now look at it and think ‘if we can come back from 4-1 down to Barcelona, there’s nothing we can’t do. Nobody expected us to be here so we’ll just for it’.
Di Francesco is unwilling to compromise on his ideals we I think they will stay true to themselves at Anfield, press high, play with a high line and compress the space.
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AS Roma striker Edin Dzeko backs former team-mate Mohammed Salah to be top of the Premier League goalscoring charts at the end of the season, but says he can have a rest in tonight's Champions League tie.
Watch the full video below.
Football Focus: Dzeko backs Salah to win Premier League golden boot
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Liverpool are two games away from another European Cup final...
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Pepe: I’ve asked 3 friends for the score. 1 with no knowledge, 1 with intermediate knowledge and another with no knowledge of football. All have said 2-0 to Liverpool. Surely scientific enough just to give the win to Liverpool and forget about the next nervy 90 mins?
Sure might as well send everyone home now...
The team news is out and both teams name full strength line-ups after resting players at the weekend. Five changes in total for Liverpool, six for Roma.
Full team news to follow.
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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.
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Growing up my dad always encouraged me to cheer on the remaining English clubs that were playing in Europe, whoever they were. As a Chelsea fan I still do this and I fully expect Liverpool to beat Roma tonight by a couple of goals. Not sure if any Liverpool fans would cheer on my team though.
Steve, London