Liverpool vs Leicester City: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

Liverpool vs Leicester City: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

  • Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 12 Premier League home games against Leicester (W10 D2), since losing three in a row between 1997 and 2000.

  • Leicester have won just two of their last 12 Premier League games against Liverpool (D1 L9). They have suffered three straight defeats in this series (including a recent one), but they have not lost four league games in a row to the Reds since 1987 and 1996.

  • Liverpool have won their last seven league games on Boxing Day, the longest streak of any team in England’s top four divisions and the longest such streak ever for the Reds.

  • Leicester have won just one of their last 10 Boxing Day league games (D2 L7), against eventual champions Manchester City in 2018/19.

  • Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 21 games in all competitions (W18 D3). It is their longest unbeaten streak since a 25-game losing streak between April and November 2021 and the longest in a single season since a 24-game losing streak between January and May 1989.

  • Liverpool have conceded eight goals in their last three Premier League games, as many as in the first 13 under Arne Slot. However, the Reds have scored at least two goals in each of their last nine league games, their longest such streak since September-December 2021 (11).

  • Leicester lost 4-0 to Newcastle and 3-0 to Wolves in their last two Premier League games. The last time they lost three league games in a row by more than three goals was in November 1958.

  • No current Premier League player was involved in more goals (6) or provided more assists (4) on Boxing Day than Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah.

  • Mohamed Salah has scored 99 goals in 141 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).

  • Leicester striker Jamie Vardy has scored eight goals against Liverpool in the Premier League, with only Andrew Cole (11) and Harry Kane (9) scoring more in the competition against the Reds. A goal in this game would also make Vardy the oldest player to ever score in the Premier League against Liverpool at the age of 37 years and 350 days.

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