Liverpool vs Fulham: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head – BBC Sport

Liverpool vs Fulham: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head – BBC Sport

  • Liverpool have won nine of their last 12 Premier League games against Fulham (D2 L1), with their only defeat in that time being a 1-0 loss at Anfield in March 2021.

  • Each of Fulham’s last three Premier League wins over Liverpool have ended 1-0, with the last two of those coming at Anfield (December 2011, May 2012, March 2021).

  • Liverpool have scored more than two goals in each of their last seven Premier League games, most recently between September and December 2021 (11 in a row). The Reds have scored 76 goals in 33 games in 2024, their second-best average number of goals per game in a year (2.3) in the Premier League era, while they scored a rate of 2.38 goals per game in 2019 (88 in 37 games).

  • Fulham have accumulated 23 points from their first 15 Premier League games this season (W6 D5 L4), their second most points at this stage of a Premier League season, behind only 2003/04 when they collected 25 points had.

  • Since the start of last season, only Man City (38) have won more points from losing positions than Liverpool (36) in the Premier League, with the Reds having lost just five of their last 27 games while trailing (W10, D12). . . Meanwhile, of all the consistently represented Premier League teams in the last two seasons, only Everton (8) have taken fewer points from deficits than Fulham (11).

  • Fulham averaged 15.1 shots and 150 passes in the final third per game in the first 13 Premier League games this season – in the last two games they averaged just four shots and 67.5 passes in the final third per game, With 47 passes in the final third against Arsenal, the second-worst rate by a home team in a Premier League game this season.

  • Mohamed Salah has scored 99 goals in 140 home games in the Premier League (2 for Chelsea, 97 for Liverpool). If he scores, he would be the eighth player to score more than 100 points in the competition on home soil and the fourth fastest after Alan Shearer (91 apps), Thierry Henry (113) and Sergio Aguero (125).

  • Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in at least two goals in each of Liverpool’s last four Premier League games (6 goals, 3 assists) – the only player in the competition’s history to do so in five consecutive appearances was Robin van Persie Arsenal in October/November 2011. Salah has also scored in his last seven Premier League games, with just three players – Ruud van Nistelrooy (twice), Jamie Vardy (twice) and Daniel Sturridge – has ever scored in more than 8 consecutive such appearances.

  • Raúl Jiménez has scored 12 goals in his last 21 Premier League starts for Fulham – in fact, of the players with more than 1,000 minutes played for the club, the Mexican has the best minutes-per-goal ratio (one every 192 minutes).

  • Trent Alexander-Arnold has prepared 10 Premier League goals for Mohamed Salah, only Sadio Mané (11) more. He is only the third Liverpool player with more than 10 assists for two different players in the competition, joining Salah for Roberto Firmino (12) and Mané (10) and Firmino for Salah (13) and Mané (13).

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