Liverpool vs Ipswich Town Matchday Stats Preview

Liverpool have won their last three league games against Ipswich by an aggregate score of 13-0 – they last won four in a row against the Tractor Boys between 1963 and 1969.

Ipswich have won two of their last three away league games against Liverpool, having failed to win any of their first 27 visits to Anfield beforehand (D8 L19). Their last visit ended in a 5-0 defeat on the final day of the 2001-02 season, however.

Liverpool have won their last 10 Premier League home games against promoted sides by an aggregate score of 34-7 since a 1-0 loss to Fulham in March 2021.

Liverpool remain unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League games (W12 D5), with their only defeat this season coming back in September (0-1 v Nottingham Forest). In Arne Slot’s case, it’s the longest unbeaten run any Liverpool manager has had in their first Football League season with the club since William Edward Barclay, who avoided defeat in all 28 games in the Reds’ first ever such campaign in 1893-94 (second tier).

Liverpool have a higher xG total than any other side in the Premier League this season (50.2), while only Southampton (52.6) have a higher xG against than Ipswich (45.8).

Only Crystal Palace (59%) have earned a higher proportion of their Premier League points this season in away games than Ipswich Town (56% - 9/16), who have earned two of their three league wins this term on the road (vs Tottenham in November & Wolves in December).

Liverpool have conceded the first goal in each of their last three Premier League home games, last having a longer such run between January and April 2021 (7).

Five of Cody Gakpo’s six Premier League goals for Liverpool have come in home games, with the forward netting in each of his last four such appearances at Anfield. Only two Dutchmen have scored in five in a row at home in the Premier League – Ruud van Nistelrooy (August 2003) and Robin van Persie twice (March 2012 and January 2013).

Only Dominic Solanke (853) has applied more pressures than Ipswich’s Omari Hutchinson in the Premier League this season (716). Meanwhile, only Solanke again (399) and Erling Haaland (297) have applied more pressures in the final third (399) than Ipswich forward Liam Delap (295).

Ipswich’s Leif Davis is the only player to have created 20+ chances from both open play (21) and set play (20) in the Premier League this season. Meanwhile, among defenders, only Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold (42) has created more chances overall in the competition this term than Davis (41).