Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien has urged his team-mates to claim a crucial away goal at Anfield on Wednesay night, when the Londoners travel to face Liverpool in the first leg of their eagerly-awaited Champions League quarter-final tie with Rafa Benitez's men. The two clubs are meeting for the fifth successive season in European competition, and no tie between the two teams has been anything like one-sided. With more tightness and tension guaranteed, Essien knows that any edge becomes crucial in the tie, and an away goal, so often the deciding factor in continental competition, is something well worth fighting for on Merseyside. "With the Premiership, we just have to win and see what happens but, like every member of the squad, I want to win the Champions League especially after how close we were last season,” he told Kick Off Ghana. "As the away team, if we score at Anfield, we give ourselves a great chance of doing well." As for the accusations that the match-ups between the pair have now become tedious, with familiarity breeding contempt amongst fans, Essien states that it is merely another factor to be dealt with in an incredibly challenging test. "Some say the fixture is becoming boring because we have had to play Liverpool every season for some time now, but that is the way it goes and we must accept it," he concluded. Source: Goal.com