BIG MATCH FACTS

LIVERPOOL extended their home unbeaten run against Manchester City to 18 games in all competitions (W12 D6), with their last defeat coming in May 2003 (2-1).

PEP GUARDIOLA has won just one of his last eight managerial meetings with Jurgen Klopp in all competitions (D3 L4), and is winless in the most recent four (D1 L3).

LIVERPOOL’S return of 20 points is their joint most after eight games of a Premier League campaign (also 1996-97 and 2008-09).

LIVERPOOL are unbeaten in their last 14 home games against ‘top six’ opposition in the league, winning six and drawing eight of these fixtures. WITH Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City all yet to suffer a league defeat this term, this is just the second time in Premier League history that as many as three teams have gone unbeaten in their opening eight games of a season (also 2011-12, with Man City, Man United and Newcastle).

CITY had 51 per cent possession at Anfield – their lowest in a Premier League game since Pep Guardiola took charge of the club.

LIVERPOOL have kept a clean sheet in each of their last nine Premier League games at Anfield, their joint-longest run in the competition (also nine games in February 2007). CITY striker Sergio Aguero has played 10 matches in all competitions at Anfield in his career (eight with Man City, two with Atletico Madrid) and has failed to score in all of them.

AMONG players to have taken at least 10 penalties in the Premier League, only Juan Pablo Angel (50 per cent, 5/10) has a lower success rate than City’s Riyad Mahrez (58 per cent, 7/12).