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ARSENAL V LFC: STAT ATTACK

/noticias.info/ Here are are all the important pre-match stats and facts ahead of Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
# Head to head: (League games only)

# At Arsenal: Liverpool 20 wins, Arsenal 37 wins, 26 draws.
# Overall: Liverpool 68 wins, Arsenal 58 wins, 41 draws.

# Last season on the Reds first visit to the Emirates Stadium Arsenal ran out 3-0 winners. Mathieu Flamini opened the scoring on 41 minutes with Kolo Toure and William Gallas completing the scoring in the second half.

# Back in October the sides drew 1-1 at Anfield. Steven Gerrard's free-kick in the seventh minute opened the scoring but Cesc Fabregas equalised ten minutes from time. The Reds lost both Fernando Torres and Xabi Alonso through injury. It was Liverpool's 1,000th league draw.

# Gerrard's goal came in his 400th appearance for the club.

# Liverpool have not won in their last seven league visits to Arsenal.

# The Reds last win at Arsenal came in February 2000 when Titi Camara scored the only goal of the game. Only three of the winning side that day are still at Anfield - Jamie Carragher, Sami Hyypia and Steven Gerrard.

# Liverpool have finished above Arsenal in each of the last two seasons. In 2005-06 the Reds finished 15 points ahead of the Gunners while goal difference separated the teams last season.

# The last Liverpool hat-trick against the Gunners was scored by Peter Crouch in March 2007 in a 4-1 win. That is the last hat-trick scored against the Gunners in the Premiership.

# The only Liverpool hat-trick at Arsenal was scored by Gordon Hodgson in October 1928 in a 4-4 draw.

# Liverpool's biggest win at Arsenal came in October 1893 when they won 5-0 in the first ever meeting in London between the sides. Their heaviest defeat saw them lose 8-1 in September 1934.

# Liverpool have conceded 12 goals in the last four league visits to Arsenal.

# However, they have scored in five of the last six league visits.

# The Reds last seven wins at Arsenal have all been by a one goal margin. Their biggest win prior to that came in September 1983 when Craig Johnston and Kenny Dalglish scored in a 2-0 win.

# Jamie Carragher has been sent off twice in his Liverpool career - both times in London with the last coming against Arsenal in an FA Cup tie in 2002.

# 25 goals have been scored in the last six meetings between the teams in all comps.

# Jermaine Pennant joined Arsenal on his 16th birthday for £1.5 million from Notts County in 1999. He made only two Premier League starts for the club, scoring a hat-trick against Southampton (his only goals for the Gunners) in May 2003.

# Pennant could play his 50th league game for the Reds against his former club.

# Sami Hyypia could make his 300th league appearance for Liverpool. In doing so he would become only the second player from the club to achieve the feat in the Premier League after Jamie Carragher. Steven Gerrard is lurking close behind on 298.

# Alvaro Arbeloa could make his 50th Liverpool appearance in all competitions.

# In the Premier League, Liverpool have won 14 of the meetings with Arsenal winning nine and eight draws.

# Liverpool are two goals short of recording 400 away from home in the Premier League.

# The Reds are unbeaten in the last 57 league games in which they have led at half-time - since losing at Arsenal 2-4 in April 2004 after leading 2-1 at the interval.

# The Gunners are looking to record a fifth successive home league win over Liverpool for the first time in their history.

# Arsene Wenger has won just seven out of 22 league games against Liverpool since he took charge at Highbury in 1996.

# At Highbury and the Emirates, Arsenal have failed to score only five times in the last 132 League games.

# They have lost just once at the Emirates in the 52 games they have played on the ground since moving there in 2006. That defeat came at the hands of West Ham (1-0) on this weekend last year. Yossi Benayoun was not involved.

# They are unbeaten in the last 20 at home in the league since that Hammers defeat.

# The Gunners have only finished outside the top two on two occasions in the Premier League since 1997.

# Arsenal have failed to score in only one of the last 13 league meetings between the sides home and away.

# They are looking to keep successive home league clean sheets against Liverpool for the first time since 1992.

# They have failed to score in only two league games this season - both games at Portsmouth and at Wigan finished goalless.

# The last time they failed to score in the Premier League and ended up losing the game was at Everton in March 2007.

# Cesc Fabregas had an explosive start to the season scoring 11 goals in his opening 16 games in all competitions. Since then however, he has found the net just twice in his last 24.

# William Gallas scored in both league clashes last season.

# Arsenal's last hat-trick against Liverpool was scored by Thierry Henry in a 4-2 win at Highbury in April 2004.

# Gilberto Silva made his Arsenal debut against the Reds in the 2002 FA Community Shield.

# The Gunners comeback from two down with ten men to win at Bolton last Saturday was their first in six league games.

# They have won two of their last 10 games in all competitions.

# Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 13 league games against North-West teams. They have won nine and drawn four since losing at Anfield last March.

# Emmanuel Adebayor has gone six league games without scoring his longest drought of the campaign in the Premiership.

# Current League standings:

# Liverpool: Pld 32 W 17 D 11 L 4 Goals For 56 Against 24 Points: 62 Position: 4th.

Arsenal: Pld 32 W 20 D 10 L 2 Goals For 62 Against 26 Points 70 Position: 3rd.

# Scorers: (League in brackets):

# Liverpool: Torres 28 (21), Gerrard 19 (10), Benayoun 10 (3), Kuyt 10 (3), Babel 8 (4), Crouch 8 (2), Voronin 4 (3), Hyypia 3 (1), Alonso 2 (2), Aurelio 1 (1), El Zhar 1 (0), Lucas 1 (0), Mascherano 1 (1), Pennant 1 (1), Sissoko 1 (1), own goals 3 (3).

# Arsenal: Adebayor 24 (19), Fabregas 13 (7), Eduardo 12 (4), Van Persie 8 (6), Rosicky 7 (6), Bendtner 6 (2), Walcott 5 (2), Gallas 4 (4), Hleb 4 (2), Diaby 3 (1), Flamini 3 (3), Denilson 2 (0), Senderos 2 (2), Toure 2 (2), Sagna 1 (1), own goals 3 (1). notas_de_prensa_archivo