Liverpool go to Tottenham within the Premier League this night with one other file of kinds for Mohamed Salah to chase, with one purpose sufficient.
If Salah scores on this sport he’ll surpass Roger Hunt, Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush’s file of league objectives in opposition to Spurs by netting his ninth.
Salah has scored eight instances in his 12 Liverpool league appearances in opposition to Tottenham, along with his different Reds purpose coming within the 2019 Champions League last.
Unbeaten Reds
This might be Liverpool’s fifth go to to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – they’ve by no means misplaced, profitable three and drawing the opposite.
Have misplaced solely one of many final 21 league encounters – the 4-1 defeat at Wembley in October 2017.
That’s their solely defeat within the final 10 visits.
House and away they’re unbeaten within the final 11 conferences, with eight wins and three attracts.
Their win at Anfield final season set a brand new membership file of 11 in a row with out defeat within the competitors in opposition to Spurs.
Liverpool are at present unbeaten within the final 17 league video games – the longest run of any top-flight crew. The subsequent finest are Tottenham and Arsenal, every with seven.
Are at present on a 19-game unbeaten run in all competitions since shedding at Man Metropolis (4-1) on April 1, profitable 14 and drawing 5.
They’ve scored 48 objectives throughout this sequence.
Excessive-scoring tie
A complete of 182 objectives have are available in Premier League clashes between Liverpool and Tottenham, with solely their video games in opposition to Arsenal producing extra (184).
For the reason that 0-0 draw at White Hart Lane in October 2015 Liverpool have scored in 15 successive league conferences and in 21 of the final 22.
That goalless draw was Jurgen Klopp‘s 1st sport accountable for Liverpool.
Second-half specialists
Liverpool are the one crew to not concede a Premier League purpose within the second half of any sport this season.
In reality, they haven’t conceded a purpose in any sport after the forty second minute.
A 3rd of Liverpool’s objectives this season (seven of 21) have been scored from the 76th minute onwards.
Son the dangerman
Heung-min Son has scored in 4 of the final six conferences with Liverpool and has 5 objectives in 14 appearances in opposition to the Reds general, which features a purpose in every of his final three visits.
Son has scored 5 objectives this season – all coming in his final three outings and all away from residence, together with a hat-trick within the 5-2 win at Burnley earlier this month.
Son has scored 108 Premier League objectives for Spurs – he’s at present joint-Twenty eighth on the all-time Premier League scorers listing.
Salah is 14th on the listing with 142 (140 with Liverpool).
Postecoglou’s a Purple
Boyhood Liverpool fan Ange Postecoglou is at present unbeaten in 50 residence league matches as a supervisor with 42 wins and 142 objectives scored in that point with Yokohama F. Marinos, Celtic and Tottenham.
Postecoglou is the fourth supervisor in Premier League historical past to see his facet rating two or extra objectives in every of his first six video games within the competitors, following with Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea), Pep Guardiola (Man Metropolis) and Leicester‘s Craig Shakespeare.
Dominik Szoboszlai performed twice in opposition to Postecoglou’s Celtic within the Champions League group phases final season (for RB Leipzig) and was on the profitable facet each instances.
This night’s referee
Simon Hooper was accountable for Liverpool’s latest win over Aston Villa.
He has issued eight yellow playing cards in three top-flight video games this season.
This season’s scorers
Tottenham: Son 5, Kulusevski 2, Maddison 2, Richarlison 2, Romero 2, Royal 1, Sarr 1, personal objectives 1
Liverpool: Nunez 4, Salah 4, Diaz 3, Jota 3, Gakpo 2, Szoboszlai 2, personal objectives 2, Robertson 1
* Stats courtesy of LFC statistician Ged Rea (@ged0407).
