Mohamed Salah can prolong his imperious opening-day report when Liverpool journey to Chelsea for the opening recreation of the brand new Premier League season.
Salah is the one participant to attain on the opening weekend in six consecutive Premier League seasons and will accomplish that once more this season for a seventh!
His tally of eight opening day objectives is a joint-Premier League report, equalled by Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard.
Furthermore, no participant has ever scored a hat-trick for Liverpool at Stamford Bridge – a report for the Egyptian to intention for, maybe?
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Begin as you imply to go on
The Reds have gained eight and drawn two of their final 10 opening-day fixtures since a 3-0 defeat at West Brom in 2012.
They’ve scored at the very least two objectives every of the final seven opening-day outings.
Liverpool go into this recreation unbeaten of their final 11 league video games since dropping 4-1 at Man Metropolis again in April (seven wins, 4 attracts).
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Please, not one other 0-0!
The Reds are two objectives in need of scoring 100 at Chelsea in all competitions and the subsequent objective scored would be the one hundred and fiftieth scored in Premier League fixtures between the groups.
Nevertheless, this fixture has ended 0-0 within the final 4 successive video games.
The conferences final season have been the primary time that each league encounters of the identical league marketing campaign did not witness a objective within the Premier League period, and for the primary time since 1971/72.
There have by no means been successive goalless attracts in league encounters between the groups at Stamford Bridge nor three consecutive league attracts.
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A report that wants altering
Liverpool gained six video games on this competitors on the highway final season – their fewest quantity since 5 in 2010/11.
Their eight away league defeats in 2022/23 was their most in the course of the tenure of Jurgen Klopp.
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New season, new Chelsea…
Mauricio Pochettino has confronted Liverpool 16 occasions in his profession successful three. His first two victories got here whereas with Southampton in March 2013 and the next September.
He has misplaced his final 4 towards the Reds – a kind of being Tottenham’s 2019 Champions League Closing defeat.
Final season, Chelsea have been managed by 4 totally different males for the primary time of their historical past in a single season – Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter, Bruno Saltor (his solely recreation got here towards Liverpool on this floor) and Frank Lampard.
Lastly, Chelsea have gained their final three opening day fixtures since dropping 4-0 at Man United in 2019. A yr in the past they started their marketing campaign with a 1-0 victory at Everton.
* Stats courtesy of LFC statistician Ged Rea (@ged0407).
