It’s the last game of the season and Arne Slot’s Reds are limping to the line.
Fifth place in the Premier League and qualification for next season’s Champions League is almost guaranteed.
However it is still technically possible if Liverpool lose to Brentford, Bournemouth win at Nottingham Forest and there’s a seven-point swing in goal difference. There’s a 0.35% chance of that happening, according to the statisticians.
Liverpool lost 3-2 in the reverse fixture against Brentford, but have never lost consecutive league games against the Bees before.
Between 1936 and 1937, Brentford were unbeaten in their first three away league games against Liverpool (W1 D2). Since then, they’ve lost each of their last six trips to Anfield without scoring a single goal.
Liverpool haven’t lost their final league game in any of the last 10 seasons (W7 D3) since going down 6-1 at Stoke in 2014-15. When finishing a league campaign at home, they’re unbeaten in 18 (W15 D3) since a 2-0 loss to Arsenal in 1988-89.
Liverpool have lost 19 games in all competitions this season; in the club’s entire history, only in 1936-37 (20), 1952-53 (21), 1953-54 (24), and 1992-
93(20) have they ever lost 20+ matches in a single campaign.
Liverpool have gone on to lose eight different Premier League games in which they’ve equalised this season, the most of any side. Indeed, only two teams have lost more such games in a single campaign – Wolves in 2024-25 (10) and Blackpool in 2010-11 (9).
Mohamed Salah has played 441 games for Liverpool in all competitions, scoring 257 goals and providing 119 assists, with this potentially his final game for the Reds. He has seven Premier League goals this season, and could be just the second golden boot winner to score 20+ fewer goals than the previous campaign (29 last season), along with Alan Shearer (25 in 1996-97, 2 in 1997-98).
Virgil van Dijk has completed 90 minutes in 74 of Liverpool’s 75 Premier League matches under Arne Slot – including all 37 games this season. If he plays 90 minutes here, aged 34 years and 320 days, he would be the oldest outfield player ever to complete 100% of possible minutes in a Premier League campaign, beating John Terry’s record in 2014-15 (34y 168d).
