Federico Chiesa could join an elite group of players when he makes his Liverpool debut this weekend.
The Italian could make his first appearance for the Reds after signing on Deadline Day as they welcome Nottingham Forest to Merseyside.
He will be hoping to make the perfect start under Arne Slot and scoring in front of the Anfield crowd would give him exactly that.
It would also mean Chiesa writes his name in the history books as part of an exclusive club.
The forward would become only the third player to follow their father in scoring a goal at the iconic ground after Erling Haaland and Shaun Wright-Phillips.
Chiesa’s dad, Enrico, found the net for Italy while playing at Euro ‘96, sweeping home at the Anfield Road end to equalise against the Czech Republic.
And that was a special moment for the Chiesa family as they have a picture framed in their home of the goal Enrico scored.
Upon the completion of Chiesa Jnr’s Liverpool transfer, he admitted he didn’t even realise it was at the home of his new club.
“I know this goal, I know this,” Chiesa said when he was shown the clip. “He didn’t tell me he scored this at Anfield.
“He didn’t tell me about this because usually when we speak about the Euros he doesn’t want to speak about it because I say I won it and he has not won it so…
“We have a picture of him celebrating after he scored that goal but honestly I didn’t know it was at Anfield so this is a great memory for my family, for my father, so I think he’s very happy for me to join Liverpool.”
Now, his son could follow in his footsteps and achieve an incredibly rare feat accomplished by second-generation footballers.
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Wright-Phillips was the first to do so, as he netted for Manchester City away at Liverpool in the 2003/04 season.
The winger scored to emulate his father, Ian Wright, who found the net multiple times during his successful seven years at Arsenal.
Haaland then managed to follow his father, Alf-Inge, as he scored at Anfield for Red Bull Salzburg in the Champions League in 2019.
Haaland Snr. scored against Liverpool for Leeds in 1997 – and remains the only one of the two to do it while playing for an English club.
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Erling – who has won the Golden Boot in each of his two Premier League seasons – is still waiting to score at Anfield for Man City.
In fact, he’s even been the cause of one being ruled out after he was adjudged to have committed a foul in the build-up to a Phil Foden effort in a 1-0 defeat to Liverpool in October 2022.
Chiesa will be hoping to join this elite club by becoming the first player to emulate his father by scoring at Anfield as a Red and not against them.
Many players would have wanted to follow in family footsteps, but it’s a very tough feat and some have come close to doing so in the past.
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Frank Lampard and his father Frank Sr. both netted against Liverpool during their careers, but only one of them did it away from home.
The former – being one of the Premier League’s greatest goalscoring midfielders of all time at Chelsea – unsurprisingly was the one.
What is more fascinating that the Reds represented something of a bogey team for Lampard during clashes in England’s top-flight.
The former Everton manager bagged just four of his 177 Premier League goals against Liverpool – but all of them came at Anfield.
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The first three were all penalties across his stints at West Ham and Chelsea in 1999, 2005, and 2007.
He finally scored from open play during the Blues 2-0 away win in May 2010 that all but wrapped up the title that season.
Lampard Sr., who played as a left-back, only netted 18 times for West Ham his entire career.
However, one of those came against Liverpool in a 2-2 draw in April 1974, but it was inside Upton Park not Merseyside.
It’s a similar situation for the Kluiverts, as the legendary Patrick scored at Anfield in a 3-1 defeat for Newcastle in 2004.
His son Justin, who plays for Bournemouth, has only scored at the Vitality Stadium against the Reds rather than in the reverse fixture.
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Those pairs were unable to join the club, but Chiesa has a chance to this weekend.
And you can keep up with all the goals as they go in with Adrian Durham, Darren Bent and Troy Deeney on GameDay Live this Saturday.
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