/noticias.info/ # Liverpool enter Christmas top of the table for the first time since 1996.
# Two wins from the next two games will give Liverpool their best points total in a calendar year for 19 years.
# Two points against Bolton and Newcastle will see Liverpool record their best points tally in a single year since 1990.
# Lucas could play his 50th game for Liverpool.
# The Reds are looking to record their 11th league double over Bolton and their 4th in the Premier League following a 2-0 win at the Reebok six weeks ago. Dirk Kuyt headed the Reds into a 28th minute lead and Steven Gerrard wrapped up the points on 73.
# Last season here the Reds won 4-0 with Sami Hyypia, Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard (penalty) and Ryan Babel all finding the net.
# At Anfield the Reds have won the last six meetings at Anfield conceding just one goal.
# In the Premier League Liverpool have won 12 and lost three of the 19 meetings.
# Liverpool are unbeaten in the league at Anfield in the calendar year 2008. Should they avoid losing today it will be only the second time they have gone a calendar year without losing at home in the league since 1990. The other was two years ago.
# The Reds are the only team in all four divisions not to have lost at home this year.
# Xabi Alonso made his Liverpool debut against Bolton at the Reebok in August 2004.
# Robbie Keane scored against Bolton at the Reebok for Tottenham in a 1-1 draw last season.
# The Reds have lost just twice on Boxing Day in the last 20 years. The last time they were beaten at Anfield on this day was in 1986 when Manchester United won 1-0.
# Four Liverpool players have scored League hat-tricks against Bolton - Jack Parkinson (1913), Henry Race (1929), Jimmy Case (1978) and Robbie Fowler (1995) have achieved the feat-all at Anfield.
# Steven Gerrard has scored six league goals against Bolton Wanderers with two of those coming in his last three appearances. Along with Aston Villa they are his favourite league opposition when it comes to finding the back of the net.
# Fabio Aurelio opened his goalscoring account for the Reds against today’s opponents last March.
# Liverpool's biggest win over Bolton came here in September 1930 when the Reds won 7-2.
# Robbie Fowler holds the club record for most goals in a game against Bolton. He scored four here in a 5-2 win in September 1995.
# Bolton last won in the League at Anfield in January 1954 winning 2-1. Since then they have drawn two and lost 11.
# In those 13 games they have scored just five times.
# In the Premier League, Bolton have picked up just one point out of 27 on this ground.
# Their last goal at Anfield came from Henrik Pedersen in a 3-1 defeat five years ago today - only the second time the sides have met on Boxing Day.
# Kevin Nolan is the only current Bolton player to have scored for the club at Anfield. He did so in a 1-1 draw on New Years Day 2002.
# Wanderers have won on this ground on Boxing Day. They recorded a 2-0 victory in 1906.
# Bolton's last away win on this day came in 1996 when they beat Grimsby Town 2-1 thanks to goals from Gerry Taggart and Nathan Blake.
# Bolton have won five of their last eight league games. By comparison Liverpool have won three.
# They have won four times on their travels this season, losing the other five. The victories have come at West Ham, Hull, Middlesbrough and Sunderland.
# They scored 13 goals in the whole of last season away from home. This season on their travels they have netted one more already, after just nine games.
# They have kept clean sheets in just two of their last 16 away games in the league.
# Home and away Wanderers have won five of the last eight games.
# Matthew Taylor has scored in five Premier League games this season and Bolton have won them all.
# They have scored 22 league goals this season with half of them coming in the last five games. Of those 11 goals seven have come in the opening quarter of games.
# Gary Megson has managed a team against Liverpool on six occasions prior to today (three each with Bolton and West Brom). He has lost all six scoring one and conceding 20.
# Current League Positions:
Liverpool: Pld 18 Won 11 Drawn 6 Lost 1 Goals For 27 Against 12 Points 39 Position: 1st.
Bolton: Pld 18 Won 7 Drawn 2 Lost 9 Goals For 22 Against 24 Points 23 Position: 9th.
# Leading scorers (League in brackets):
Liverpool: Gerrard 11 (6), Kuyt 7 (5), Keane 5 (3), Torres 5 (5), Alonso 2 (2), Babel 2 (1), Riera 2 (1), Agger 1 (0), Arbeloa 1 (1), Benayoun 1 (1), Carragher 1 (1), Hyypia 1 (0), Lucas 1 (0), Ngog 1 (0), Plessis 1 (0), own goals 1 (1).
Bolton: Davies 5 (5), Elmander 5 (5), Taylor 5 (5), Cahill 2 (2), Gardner 2 (2), Steinsson 2 (2), Nolan 1 (0), own goals 1 (1). |
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| Noticia nº: |
380288 |
| Fuente : |
Liverpool F.C. |
| Marca |
Liverpool |
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Liverpool |
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Gran Bretaña |
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| Grupo |
Deportes |
| Sección |
Deportes |
| Subsección |
Fútbol |
| Fecha emisión: |
24/12/2008 |
| Fecha publicación: |
24/12/2008 |
| Tiempo de lectura |
4 min |
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