Tuesday night under the lights
Brentford will be looking to win back-to-back league games against Chelsea for the first time since February 1939, following their 4-1 win at Stamford Bridge in April. The away side won all three meetings between Brentford and Chelsea in all competitions last season, with the Blues picking up two victories at the Brentford Community Stadium (1-0 league, 2-0 League Cup).
Brentford have failed to score in four of their six home London derbies in the Premier League (W2 D2 L2), winning the only two games in which they found the net (2-0 against both Arsenal and West Ham United last season).
Chelsea have won nine of their last 10 away London derbies in the Premier League, keeping seven clean sheets in the process. Their only defeat in this run was at West Ham United in December last season (2-3).
Chelsea have won their last five games in all competitions, winning each of the last four without conceding. They last had a longer winning run while keeping a clean sheet each time in January/February 2007 (6).
Ivan Toney has scored six goals in his last five Premier League games, accounting for 75 per cent of Brentford’s total in these matches (6/8). Overall, Toney has scored 30 per cent of the Bees’ Premier League strikes, the highest rate of any player for a team in the competition.
Liverpool have won their last five home matches against West Ham United in all competitions.
West Ham United are unbeaten in the last five matches across all competitions.
Four of the last five meetings between Liverpool and West Ham have seen both teams get on the scoresheet.
20 goals have been scored in the last six meetings between Liverpool and West Ham United.
Liverpool have scored 15 goals in the last five matches across all competitions.
Manchester United have won their last three Premier League games against Tottenham, last winning more matches in a row against them between April 2009 and October 2010 (4). Spurs have lost more Premier League games against Manchester United than they have versus any other opponent (38), while only against Chelsea (110) have they shipped more goals than against the Red Devils (104).
Manchester United have won more Premier League games on a Wednesday than any other side (72), while they also have the highest win rate of all sides to play more than twice on this day in the competition (61.5 per cent).
Tottenham have won just one of their last 19 Premier League away games against the five other ever-present sides in the competition (D7 L11), with that victory coming against Manchester United in October 2020 (6-1).
Antonio Conte has lost all three of his away games against Manchester United, with all of these coming in the Premier League. Against no side has the Italian tactician lost more away games in all competitions in his club career.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in this exact fixture last season in a 3-2 win for the Red Devils. Overall, he has scored eight Premier League goals against Tottenham (including six in his last three). Against no side does he have more in the competition.
Erik has named his starting XI to face Tottenham Hotspur
One change for the Reds as Marcus Rashford replaces Cristiano Ronaldo…
Interesting! Ronaldo seems to be getting comfortable watching the game from the sidelines.
Must say Erik ten Hag sure knows how to make bold decisions!
Liverpool have scored in 29 consecutive Premier League home games.
Darwin Núñez is off the mark at Anfield for the Reds.
5 - Among all Premier League players this season, only Kevin De Bruyne (11) has made more assists across all competitions than Konstantinos Tsimikas (5). Outlet.
Only six players have scored more Premier League goals this season than Miguel Almirón.
Oh, Miggy, you’re so fine…