Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Liverpool: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head

Wolves have misplaced 17 of their final 18 Premier League matches towards Liverpool, successful the opposite 3-0 in February 2023 at Molineux beneath Julen Lopetegui.

Liverpool have gained 83% of their Premier League video games towards Wolves, successful 19 of 23 video games (D2 L2) – that’s the greatest win ratio of both facet to face one other 20+ instances within the competitors’s historical past.

Wolves have misplaced 10 of their final 11 Premier League video games towards reigning champions, successful the opposite 2-1 towards Manchester City in September 2023. Indeed, they’ve misplaced 74% of their video games towards defending champions within the competitors (17/23); Among sides with 20+ such matches, solely West Brom (81% – 21/26) and Norwich (75% – 15/20) have the next loss ratio.

Liverpool have gained their final two away league video games (each 1-0 v Sunderland and Nottingham Forest), as many as their earlier 10 on the highway beforehand (D3 L5). The Reds want to win three successive away Premier League fixtures for the primary time since October 2024 (4 in a row), and will achieve this whereas protecting a clear sheet every time for the primary time since March 2022.

Wolves have gained seven of their final 9 Premier League residence video games performed on a Tuesday (L2). Indeed, their 58% residence win price on Tuesdays total within the competitors (7/12) is their greatest on any day of the week.

Each of Liverpool’s final 4 away objectives within the Premier League have come from set-piece situations (2x nook, 1x direct free-kick, 1x throw). Excluding penalties, simply 4 of their earlier 23 strikes on the highway within the league had been from set-plays.

Wolves gained 2-0 towards Aston Villa final day trip, final successful consecutive Premier League video games in March/April final 12 months (6 in a row). Their final 4 league wins have been to nil, with Wolves winless in 29 video games through which they’ve conceded at the least eleven (D6 L23).

Just 14% of Liverpool’s away league objectives this season have been scored within the first half (3/21), with solely a kind of coming earlier than the forty fifth minute (Ryan Gravenberch, thirty fifth min v Newcastle in August). In Premier League historical past, solely three sides have a decrease ratio of away objectives in a season scored earlier than half-time: West Brom in 2008-09 (10% – 1/10), Leicester in 1994-95 (12% – 2/17), and Southampton in 1998-99 (13% – 1/8).

Wolves have not scored earlier than half time in any of their final 9 Premier League video games. Only as soon as have they gone 10 video games with no first half aim, doing so between August and November 2018.

Mohamed Salah has been concerned in 9 objectives in his final 10 Premier League appearances towards Wolves (5 objectives, 4 assists), scoring in each of his final two towards them for Liverpool.