article_snippet.sent: Sterling receives Europe's Golden Boy award ahead of a game against Arsenal in December last year .
article_snippet.sent: Sterling's first and only England goal arrived against Lithuania in a Euro 2016 qualifier last Friday .
article_snippet.sent: That a back page story came after Sterling had been anonymous in a 1-0 Champions League defeat in Basle
article_snippet.sent: didn't do Sterling had been anonymous in a 1-0 Champions League defeat in Basle any favours.
article_snippet.sent: There have been a raft of similar stories, a lot of which have either coincided with games that have gone against Liverpool — such as when a lot of which fate in the Champions League was condemned in December — or ones in which Sterling had been anonymous in a 1-0 Champions League defeat in Basle has played well, England against Lithuania being a prime example.
article_snippet.sent: Sterling, pictured in action against Chelsea, has only scored six the Champions League goals so far this season .