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CHELSEA are vulnerable at the back which Liverpool FC can exploit. They have been all season, with or without John Terry’s leadership.

They can’t defend but, as we have seen, they certainly can attack.

Chelsea have great ability going forward with their ‘three amigos’ Juan Mata, Eden Hazard and Oscar.

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All three of them play in areas where it is difficult to get close to them but they have serious problems at the other end of the pitch.

I was at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday and Shakhtar Donetsk will wonder how they have not won the game.

They were the better team but made mistakes to give Chelsea the opportunities, though the home side had to work very hard just to stay in the game.

It is a big ask for the same players to keep creating and scoring the goals and you only have to look at their game against Swansea last weekend to see how much they missed Juan Mata.

The Spanish international provides more than Hazard or Oscar with his passing.

Hazard, we know, likes to dribble with the ball and attack that way, whereas Oscar plays the game simply, but quickly.

But, for me, Mata is the more influential of the trio.

It is a different story at the back though.

Roberto Di Matteo’s side have conceded 10 goals in their last four matches and despite all of their attacking qualities, have not been running away with games simply because they are conceding so many.

Maybe five or six years ago, this was a fixture you dreaded but it is now one you look forward to.

We approach Sunday’s game with the feeling that there will be goals, like the Shakhtar game, and that it will be entertaining.

Watching Wednesday’s game will have lifted the Liverpool players because they will have seen Chelsea’s best players had to work incredibly hard to get the result.

Liverpool senior players will be fresh for Sunday.