Liverpool take on Leicester City at home on Boxing Day evening. We crunch the numbers ahead of tonight’s big game at Anfield.
- Liverpool are unbeaten in 12 Premier League home games against Leicester since losing three in a row between 1997 and 2000.
- The Foxes have only won two of their past 12 top-flight matches against the Reds, drawing one and losing nine.
- This is the 21st time Liverpool have been top of the league on Christmas Day, more than any other side. They have gone on to win the league on 11 of the previous 20 occasions.
- The Reds have only lost one of 25 matches under Arne Slot (W21, D3), and are unbeaten in the last 21.
- Slot has taken 39 points from his opening 16 Premier League matches as a manager.
- Liverpool have won their last seven league matches on Boxing Day and have not lost at home on 26 December since Norman Whiteside scored the winner for Man Utd in 1986.
- This is the sixth Premier League season in which Mo Salah has both scored and assisted 10 or more goals, breaking Wayne Rooney’s record of five campaigns with double figures for both.
- Salah has scored 99 goals in 141 Premier League home games (including two goals for Chelsea).
- Diogo Jota is one short of 100 career league goals, while Curtis Jones is on 99 Premier League appearances.
