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

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

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

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

Liverpool have scored 2+ goals in each of their last seven Premier League games, last having a longer such run between September and December 2021 (11 in a row). The Reds have scored 76 goals in 33 games in 2024, their second-best average goals per game in a year (2.3) in the Premier League era, scoring at a rate of 2.38 goals per game in 2019 (88 in 37 games).

Fulham have picked up 23 points in their first 15 Premier League matches this season (W6 D5 L4), their second most at this stage of a Premier League campaign, behind only 2003-04 when they had 25 points.

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 losing just five of their last 27 matches when they’ve trailed (W10 D12). Meanwhile, of all ever-present Premier League sides in the last two seasons, only Everton (8) have picked up fewer points from losing positions than Fulham (11).

Fulham averaged 15.1 shots and 150 final-third passes per game in their first 13 Premier League matches this season – in their last two games, they averaged just four shots and 67.5 passes in the final third per game, with their 47 final-third passes against Arsenal the second lowest by a home team in a Premier League match 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 will become the eighth player to score 100+ on home soil in the competition, and fourth-fastest, after Alan Shearer (91 apps), Thierry Henry (113), and Sergio Agüero (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 successive appearances was Robin van Persie with Arsenal in October/November 2011. Salah has also scored in his last seven games in the Premier League, with only three players – Ruud van Nistelrooy (twice), Jamie Vardy (twice), and Daniel Sturridge – ever scoring in 8+ such appearances in a row.

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

Trent Alexander-Arnold has assisted 10 Premier League goals for Mohamed Salah, only assisting Sadio Mané (11) more. He’s only the third Liverpool player with 10+ assists for two different players in the competition, along with Salah for Roberto Firmino (12) and Mané (10) and Firmino for Salah (13) and Mané (13).

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