Liverpool vs Leeds United Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics ♦️
♦️Liverpool are unbeaten in their last eight games against Leeds in all competitions (W6 D2), since a 1-2 defeat in April 2001 in the Premier League.
♦️Leeds have lost their last three away matches against Liverpool in all competitions, with this the Whites' first trip to Anfield since a 0-2 defeat in the League Cup in November 2016.
♦️Leeds have played more Premier League matches on MD1 without losing than any other team in the competition's history (P12 W5 D7), while Liverpool have won six of their last seven games on opening day (D1), scoring 15 goals in their four under Jürgen Klopp (W3 D1).
♦️This is the seventh time in the Premier League that the reigning champions have faced a newly-promoted side at home on the opening day, with the title-holders winning all six of the previous games.
♦️Only two newly-promoted sides have won away at the reigning champions on MD1 in the top-flight Notts County vs Aston Villa in 1981-82 and West Brom vs Arsenal in 1931-32.
♦️The winner of the previous season's Championship hasn't won their opening day Premier League match since Sunderland in 2007-08 against Spurs -all 12 sides since have failed to win (D3 L9), including Norwich last season, who lost 1-4 at Anfield against Liverpool.
♦️Liverpool have only lost once on the opening day of a top-flight season when they are reigning champions in 18 previous seasons (W12 D5), losing 0-2 against West Brom in the 1923-24 campaign Leeds head coach Marcelo Bielsa is only the fourth Argentinian to manage in the English top-flight, after Ossie Ardilles, Mauricio Pochettino and Mauricio Pellegrino.
♦️Bielsa will be the second-oldest permanent manager (post-war) to take charge of his first game in the English top-flight (65y 53d) behind only Dick Advocaat, who was 67 when he took charge of Sunderland for the first time in March 2015 This will be Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp's first Premier League match against Leeds, although he faced the Whites in the League Cup in November 2016, a 2-0 win.
♦️Klopp has beaten all 28 of the previous teams he has faced in the Premier League. Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is looking to become the second player to score on MD1 in four consecutive Premier League seasons, after Teddy Sheringham (1992-93 1995-96); no Liverpool player has ever scored on MD1 in four consecutive seasons in their league history.
♦️Since his debut for Leeds in August 2016, Pablo Hernández has been involved in 74 goals in all competitions (36 goals, 38 assists), 28 more than any other Whites player.
♦️Hernández could become the third Leeds player to score on MD1 in three consecutive league seasons, after Russell Wainscoat (1926-27- 1928-29) and Harold Brook (1954-55 1956-57).
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