Virgil van Dijk is starting a 29th consecutive game for Liverpool in all competitions.
It's the longest run of successive starts by any #LFC outfield player since Jamie Carragher started 33 in a row from Dec 2009-May 2010.
Liverpool's two games at Wolves this week are like a game of spot the difference.
Same shots, similar passing numbers - different result.
Analysis of that, plus stats on Robertson, Salah, and Jones in my free round-up of the FA Cup win on Friday. #LFC
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Since the Champions League began in September, Liverpool have as many wins in 13 games in cup/European competitions as they do in 25 Premier League matches (10 in each). #LFC
Mo Salah has now scored in 8 of his 9 appearances on a Friday for Liverpool in all competitions - scoring 9 goals, 1.0 per game.
Of all players with 8+ games on a day of the week in club history, only John Aldridge on a Tuesday has a better goals/game rate (1.1 - 13 in 12). #LFC
Wolves score with their first shot in the 78th minute.
The second-latest on Opta's records (from 06-07) a team has scored their first shot of a Premier League match, after Fulham v Newcastle in October 2022 (88th min).
Have Liverpool finally cracked the set-piece code?
A look at how the Reds' set-piece improvement is boosting results, plus numbers on every #LFC scorer and assister in the 5-2 win over West Ham on Saturday in my latest stats round-up.
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Liverpool have now scored 7 consecutive Premier League goals from non-penalty set-pieces - the longest run by any side in the competition's history.
Yes really. #LFC
Each of Liverpool's last 6 Premier League goals have all come from non-penalty set-pieces - the longest ever run by #LFC in the competition.
Goals in the 1st half of Premier League games at Anfield this season:
Hugo Ekitike - 6
All other Liverpool players combined - 5
#LFC
If you only count 1st halves, Liverpool would be 12th in the Premier League this season.
If you only count 2nd halves, they'd be 4th.
#LFC are scoring their 3rd-fewest 1st half goals/game in a league season in their history.
Full analysis in my review.
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Each of Liverpool's last seven 90th-min winners in the league have come away:
Núñez v Newcastle - Aug '23
Elliott v Palace - Dec '23
Núñez v Forest - Mar '24
Núñez v Brentford - Jan '25
Ngumoha v Newcastle - Aug '25
Salah v Burnley - Sep '25
Mac Allister v Forest - Feb '26
Some moments. #LFC
That's the most shots Liverpool have faced in the first half of a Premier League game (12) since *that* Stoke match in May 2015 (also 12). #LFC
654 – James Milner is making his 654th Premier League appearance against Brentford, the outright most in the competition’s history. Longevity.
Since Mo Salah left for AFCON in mid-December, only Bruno Fernandes has more assists for Premier League clubs in all competitions than Salah does (4).
Despite him missing over a month because of AFCON in that time.
Sunderland were unbeaten in 12 home Premier League games before tonight.
That's the longest unbeaten home run Liverpool have ended in the Premier League since February 2023 when they beat Newcastle, who were also unbeaten in 12. #LFC
First Premier League start of the season, and Wataru Endo won the most duels of any player in the match before that injury (7).
What a warrior. Gutted for him. #LFC
5 players aged 31 or older in Liverpool's starting XI tonight - Alisson, Robertson, Salah, Endo, van Dijk.
That's Liverpool's most in a league game since November 1953 v Arsenal (also 5 - Jones, Liddell, Paisley, Spicer, Lambert). #LFC
Wataru Endo making just his second Premier League start under Arne Slot tonight, after May last season v Chelsea.
He had started 20 Premier League games under Jürgen Klopp in 2023-24.
24 points in their last 20 games.
I analyse what that means for Liverpool's hopes of Champions League qualification, plus stats on late goals, Szoboszlai's free-kicks, and how often players both score and get sent off for #LFC at Anfield.
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Liverpool with 6 wins, 6 draws, 8 defeats, 24 points in their last 20 Premier League games.
Obviously a different context, but Roy Hodgson had 20 league games in charge of #LFC - 7 wins, 4 draws, 9 losses, 25 points.
Tough to explain.
Had to get that off my chest, Lubo. Spent the first 30 minutes of the game asking if there was any danger of any actual football being played!
Liverpool's best Premier League performance of the season was on Saturday - despite an opening half an hour with very little football played.
Stats on that, plus Ekitike, Wirtz, Salah and more in my review of the win over Newcastle. #LFC
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Liverpool with 15 goals in 4 games since Mo Salah's return to the side.
More than their previous 9 matches combined beforehand (14). #LFC
Mo Salah now has 10 assists for Liverpool against Newcastle.
He's just the second #LFC player with 10+ assists against a single opponent in the Premier League, after Steven Gerrard v Manchester City.
Hugo Ekitike is the first Liverpool player to score twice in the first half of any game in all competitions since Luis Díaz v Bournemouth in September 2024. #LFC
Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike have assisted each other 6 times in all competitions this season (3 assists each).
It's the most by two players both in their debut #LFC seasons since John Barnes and Ray Houghton in 1987-88 (also 6).
7 Newcastle corners in this first half.
The most by a visiting side in the opening 45 minutes of a Premier League game at Anfield since Sam Allardyce's Bolton in April 2005 (also 7).
Zero English players in Liverpool's starting XI tonight - eight in Newcastle's.
It's the biggest difference in English players in opposing starting XIs in any Premier League match involving Liverpool. #LFC
It's been hard to produce too many positive stat reviews for Liverpool of late.
So I make no apologies in doing so after the 6-0 win over Qarabag.
Assist hat-tricks, club records, 38 shots, 5.9 xG, and stats on every scorer on Wednesday. Enjoy. #LFC
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Federico Chiesa is just the second player in Liverpool's history to score 5 consecutive goals as a substitute in all competitions, after Ryan Babel from November to December 2007. #LFC
