Manager Arne Slot confirmed that Trent Alexander-Arnold is fit to start, having been included in the matchday squad on Wednesday.
In contrast, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola did not provide any updates on player fitness during his Friday press conference.
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Oscar Bobb, Mateo Kovacic, John Stones, and Jeremy Doku are all unavailable for the upcoming match against Feyenoord on Tuesday.
Ilkay Gundogan is poised to make his 200th Premier League appearance.
Match Facts
Head-to-head:
- Liverpool have won just one of their last nine Premier League meetings with Manchester City, a 1-0 victory at home in October 2022.
- City have won only two of their 27 Premier League visits to Anfield.
- Both Premier League fixtures between the two sides last season ended in 1-1 draws.
- Manchester City have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last 11 matches against Liverpool across all competitions, since their 4-0 win at the Etihad in July 2020, when Liverpool had already secured the title.
- The away team has won just six of the 54 Premier League encounters between the two sides, the lowest win percentage (11%) of any fixture played more than 30 times.
Liverpool:
- Liverpool start this matchday with an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League. The only team to have had a bigger advantage after 12 games was Manchester United in 1993-94, who went on to win the title by eight points.
- The Reds’ only league loss this season was a 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest at Anfield. Since then, they have won seven of their last eight league matches, scoring at least twice in seven of them.
- Liverpool have won 10 of their 12 Premier League games this season. In the 11 previous instances where a team had 10 wins after 12 matches, only two failed to win the title: Newcastle United in 1995-96 and Arsenal in 2022-23. Both won their 13th league match but finished as runners-up.
- If Liverpool win more than 10 of their first 13 top-flight matches, it will be the third time in club history after 1990-91 (when they won the title) and 2019-20 (when they finished second).
- Arne Slot’s 31-point tally after 12 matches equals the Premier League record set by Guus Hiddink, who won his 13th game in charge.
- Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 15 Premier League home matches against the reigning champions since a 1-0 defeat to Manchester United in 2007-08.
- Caoimhin Kelleher has lost just one of his 21 Premier League appearances, a 1-0 defeat by Brighton at Anfield in February 2021.
- Mohamed Salah is two goals away from becoming the eighth player to score 100 Premier League goals at home. He has also scored 11 goals in all competitions against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City—more than any other player.
Manchester City:
- Manchester City have equalled their longest winless streak under Pep Guardiola, going six matches without a victory across all competitions.
- Their recent draw with Feyenoord in the Champions League was the first time Guardiola’s side has surrendered a three-goal lead in his 942 games as a manager.
- City have conceded two or more goals in six consecutive matches, their longest such streak since 1963.
- They have lost their last three Premier League games, as many as they had in their previous 47 matches combined. The last time City lost four consecutive games in the same season was in 2007.
- Guardiola has lost eight times to Liverpool, his second-highest loss tally against any opponent after nine defeats to Tottenham.
- Erling Haaland has scored only two goals in his last seven Premier League appearances, following a 10-goal streak in his first five games of the season.
- Haaland leads the league with 33 shots on target, far ahead of the next highest Manchester City player, Josko Gvardiol, with seven.
- Since Rodri joined City in 2019-20, the team has lost 10 of 28 Premier League games without him.
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