Liverpool

• Liverpool have never lost in 54 previous home top-flight games against Stoke (W43 D11 L0) – the longest ever unbeaten home run by one team against another in top-flight history.
• Liverpool have won their last five Premier League meetings with Stoke, since a 1-6 defeat at the Bet365 Stadium on the final day of the 2014-15 season.
• Mohamed Salah has scored three goals from just four shots against Stoke in the Premier League, scoring with both shots against them in the reverse fixture.
• Salah has also netted 31 Premier League goals this season – one more will see him become the outright top scorer in a 38-game season in the competition.
• The Egyptian has netted in seven consecutive Premier League games at Anfield – the last player to score in eight in a row was Luis Suarez in January 2014.

Stoke City

• Stoke have won just four of their 70 away games against the Reds (D13 L53), winning 1-0 in a League Cup semi-final second leg match in January 2016, and three times in the second tier in the 1950s.
• Stoke have never scored a second half Premier League goal at Anfield in nine attempts – in fact, in their last 16 league visits, they’ve only scored in the second half once, with Paul Bracewell scoring in March 1983.
• No side has conceded the first goal of a Premier League game more often than Stoke this season (21), while only Manchester City (28) have opened the scoring more often than Jurgen Klopp’s side (24).
• The Potters are winless in 12 Premier League away games (D5 L7), the longest current run in the division and their longest such run since March 2014 (13).
• Paul Lambert has never lost an away match at Anfield as a manager, winning three and drawing two of his five matches in all competitions.