LIVERPOOL V SPURS: STAT ATTACK

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Here are all the important stats and facts ahead of this weekend's Barclays Premier League clash against Tottenham at Anfield.

Last season Liverpool won this fixture 3-0. Mark Gonzalez scored his first in the league for the club, and the Reds 200th in the league against Spurs, with Dirk Kuyt and John Arne Riise also finding the net.
  
Liverpool have kept four successive league clean sheets against Tottenham.
  
Home and away, the Reds are unbeaten in the last six league meetings between the sides.
  
Last season Liverpool recorded their 12th league 'double' over Spurs and their third in the Premiership.
  
Liverpool's first league game under Rafa Benitez came at Tottenham in August 2004.
  
At Anfield Liverpool are unbeaten in the last 13 league meetings with Spurs, winning nine and drawing four.
  
Peter Crouch began his career at Tottenham but never made a first team appearance. He made his league debut for the Reds against Spurs at White Hart Lane in September 2005.
  
Liverpool's last hat-trick against Spurs was scored by Phil Boersma at Anfield in 1974.
  
Javier Mascherano's third and final start for West Ham came against Tottenham in October last year.
  
Although the Reds lost at home to Marseille on Wednesday they have suffered just one league defeat in their last 38 games at Anfield.
  
The last league goal conceded by Liverpool in open play at Anfield was scored by Darren Bent, then with Charlton, now with Tottenham, back in May.
  
If they score two goals they will reach 300 under the managership of Rafa Benitez.
  
Since the inception of the Premier League Liverpool have won 14 and lost seven of the 30 meetings home and away. At Anfield in that time Liverpool have won ten and lost one with four draws.
  
Jamie Carragher, in the 1998-99 season, scored an own goal in each of the two league meetings.
  
The Reds have lost just one of the last ten League meetings home and away.
  
Yossi Benayoun's winner at Wigan last Saturday meant that Liverpool accumulated their 400th point away from home in the Premiership. They went into the game on 397.
  
Sami Hyypia celebrates his 34th birthday today.
  
Liverpool have yet to concede a league goal earlier than the 62nd minute this season.
  
Spurs last win here came on 25th August 1993 when Teddy Sheringham scored twice in a 2-1 win.
  
Tottenham's heaviest defeat at Anfield came in September 1978 when they lost 7-0. It is still the club's biggest ever League defeat. Meanwhile all five of Liverpool's defeats by Tottenham here have been by the odd goal.
  
Robbie Keane, on this ground in April 2005, scored Tottenham's last league goal against the Reds.
  
Paul Stalteri was sent off in this fixture in his sides 1-0 defeat in January 2006.

Since 1912 Spurs have won only three times in 61 league meetings at Anfield.
  
Jermaine Jenas and Young Pyo-Lee made their Spurs debuts against Liverpool in London in September 2005, as did Paul Robinson in August 2004, while Michael Dawson played his first game for the club on this ground in April 2005 and Ledley King in 1999.
  
Spurs have picked up two points on their travels this season. They have drawn at Fulham and Bolton following 1-0 defeats at Sunderland and Manchester United.
  
Tottenham played 59 games in all competitions last season-one more than Liverpool. They reached the Semi-Final of the Carling Cup and the Quarters in the F.A. and UEFA Cups.
  
Spurs last finished above Liverpool in the league in 1970-71.
  
They have finished fifth in each of the last two seasons - their best in the Premiership.
  
Dimitar Berbatov scored for Bayer Leverkusen in his side's 4-2 win against Liverpool in the Quarter-Final of the Champions League in 2002. He also played against the Reds in the Knockout Stage in 2005.
  
Tottenham's last hat-trick against the Reds was scored by Jimmy Greaves who scored four at White Hart Lane in 1963.
  
This season Spurs have picked up just six points from their opening eight league games. Only two of those points have come on the road, at Fulham (3-3) and Bolton (1-1). They lost at Sunderland (1-0 on the opening day) and by the same scoreline at Manchester United.
  
They have conceded 12 goals in their last five league games, drawing 4-4 at home with Aston Villa last Monday after trailing 1-3 with a little more than 20 minutes to go.
  
Only Derby (21) and Reading (18) have conceded more than Spurs’ 16.
  
At the other end of the pitch only Arsenal (16) and Portsmouth (15) have netted more than Tottenham’s 14.
  
Spurs' only league win this campaign came against Derby County (4-0) at White Hart Lane in mid-August.
  
They have kept only three clean sheets in their last 36 Premiership games.