LIVERPOOL V ARSENAL: STAT ATTACK Ged Rea 26 October 2007
All the relevant facts and figures ahead of Liverpool's Anfield meeting with Arsenal from LFC statistician Ged Rea
LIVERPOOL v ARSENAL
Head to head: (League only)
Overall: Liverpool 68 wins, Arsenal 58 wins, 40 draws.
At Anfield: Liverpool 48 wins, Arsenal 21 wins, 14 Draws.
Last season the Reds won this fixture 4-1 with Peter Crouch (3) and Daniel Agger scoring. William Gallas found the net for the Gunners.
Liverpool have lost only two of the last 14 league meetings at Anfield.
Nine hat-tricks have been scored by Liverpool in league games against the Gunners with each of the last four and eight in total coming at Anfield.
Peter Crouch's hat-trick in this fixture last season was the first by a Liverpool player against Arsenal since December 1995 when Robbie Fowler achieved the feat.
In the Premier League, Liverpool have won 14 of the meetings with Arsenal winning 9 and 7 draws.
Liverpool have finished above Arsenal in each of the last two seasons.
Liverpool and Arsenal are two of the eight teams to have led the Premier League for at least a day this season.
Xabi Alonso, at Highbury in March 2006, is the last Liverpool player to receive his marching orders against Arsenal.
Liverpool's next draw will be the 1,000th in their league history.
Liverpool and Arsenal are two of only three teams unbeaten in English league football this season. Leeds United are the other.
Liverpool have only conceded two goals in the first half of league matches at Anfield in the last 12 months.
Liverpool's biggest win over the Gunners at Anfield came in April 1964 when they recorded a 5-0 victory. Their heaviest defeat here to today's opponents came in November 1952 when they were beaten 5-1.
Steven Gerrard could play his 400th game for the Reds today. In doing so he will become the 26th player to achieve the feat.
Liverpool have found the net eight times this season in the last five minutes of games including injury time goals in both of their last two league matches.
21 goals were scored in the four meetings between the sides last season.
Arsenal's last league win at Anfield came in October 2004 when they won 2-1 thanks to goals from Sami Hyypia (o.g.) and Robert Pires.
They have not kept a clean sheet in their last eight visits to Anfield since a goalless draw in August 1998.
Arsenal's last hat-trick against Liverpool was scored by Thierry Henry in a 4-2 win at Highbury in April 2004.
The Gunners are playing in the Champions League for the 10th successive season.
Arsene Wenger has won seven out of 21 league games against Liverpool since taking charge in 1996.
The Gunners move to the Emirates yielded a record average gate of 60,045 last season beating the club's previous best of 54,892 set in 1947-48.
Arsenal have won 21 league games at Anfield. Only Everton with 23 have been won more.
Robin Van Persie finished as Arsenal's leading scorer in the league last season with 11 goals despite missing the last 14 games through injury.
William Gallas scored in both league fixtures last season. In fact he has scored the Gunners last two Premier League goals against the Reds.
Jermaine Pennant made 12 Premiership appearances for Arsenal in almost five years at Highbury but started only two of them.
Pennant scored a hat-trick, along with Robert Pires, in Arsenal's 6-1 home win over Southampton in May 2003. Up to the end of last season it was the only time two team mates had done this in the same Premier League game.
In the League Cup tie last season Arsenal became the first visiting team in 76 years to score six goals at Anfield. It was only the fourth time Liverpool had let in six in a game at home.
The Gunners are unbeaten in their last 16 league games since losing at home to West Ham in April.
Emmanuel Adebayor could make his 50th league appearance for Arsenal today.
The last Arsenal player dismissed on this ground was Giovanni von Bronckhorst in December 2001. Arsenal still won the game- 2-1.
Of all the clubs currently in the Premiership, Arsenal has the longest unbroken run in the top flight. They've occupied the division every year since 1919.
The Gunners are seven points better off than they were at the same stage last season (after nine games).
Arsenal are unbeaten in the last 22 games in all competitions since losing 1-0 at home to West Ham back in April.
They will be looking to extend a record of 12 successive wins in all competitions since Blackburn held them to a draw at Ewood Park back in August.
They are unbeaten away from the Emirates since losing at Anfield in March. Since then four wins and four draws in eight games.
They have scored in all of their 15 games played this season.
Of Arsenal's nine league games this season only three have been away from home.
Current League standings:
Liverpool: Pld 9 W 5 D 4 L 0 Goals For 16 Against 5 Pts 19 Position: 4th.
Arsenal: Pld 9 W 8 D 1 L 0 Goals For 21 Against 6 Pts 25 Position: 1st.
Scorers this season: (league in brackets) (before 23/10/07)
Liverpool: Torres 7 (4), Kuyt 5 (2), Voronin 4 (3), Alonso 2 (2), Benayoun 2 (1), Gerrard 2 (1), Babel 1 (1), Crouch 1 (0), Hyypia 1 (0), Sissoko 1 (1), own goals 1 (1).
Arsenal: Fabregas 9 (4), Van Persie 7 (5), Adebayor 6 (6), Hleb 3 (1), Rosicky 3 (2), Bendtner 2 (0), Eduardo 2 (0), Walcott 2 (0), Denilson 1 (0), Diaby 1 (1), Senderos 1 (1), Toure 1 (1), own goals 1 (0).
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