Liverpool recorded their first draw of the season in midweek, and it was also the first time Arne Slot’s side had taken a point from a losing position at the seventh attempt.
The draw against Sunderland preceded a trip to another promoted side, and it is a match in which the Reds could record back-to-back away league victories for the first time since mid-September.
Liverpool last achieved this after a final penalty conversion from Mohamed Salah at Burnley, which followed the 3-2 victory over Newcastle.
Suspension threat for 2 Liverpool players
A yellow card for Conor Bradley or Dominik Szoboszlai will result in a one-match suspension.
They each have four yellow cards in the Premier League and have until the 19th match to avoid another warning before the suspension threshold is raised to 10 cards.
A mixed bag of records
Of the last 51 league games Liverpool have played in the month of December, they have lost just once: 1-0 against Leicester in 2021. Of the remaining 50, they have won 37 and drawn 13.
Liverpool have scored just one goal in the first fifteen minutes of a league match this season: Ryan Gravenberch scored in the ten minutes of the Merseyside derby.
All five of Cody Gakpo’s goals this season came after halftime.
Liverpool have lost just one of their last ten games to this date – a 0-2 defeat to Newcastle in 2015.
Leeds save their points at home
Eleven of Leeds’ fourteen points this season have come at Elland Road, with the last three coming with the 3-1 win over Chelsea in midweek.
Manager Daniel Farke, who guided United back to the top division, managed four times against Liverpool, all with Norwich, in all competitions, three of them in the league.
He has lost all four, his teams have conceded eleven times and scored once. He last faced Liverpool in the League Cup in September 2021, when Liverpool won 3-0 at Carrow Road.
This season’s goalscorers
Leeds: Nmecha 4, Calvert-Lewin 3, Okafor 2, Rodon 2, Aaronson 1, Bijol 1, Bogle 1, Longstaff 1, Stach 1, Tanaka 1
Liverpool: Ekitike 6, Gakpo 5, Salah 5, Gravenberch 3, Szoboszlai 3, Chiesa 2, Isak 2, Van Dijk 2, Frimpong 1, Kerkez 1, Konate 1, Mac Allister, Ngumoha 1, Robertson 1, own goals 1
*Statistics courtesy of LFC statistician Ged Rea (@ged0407).
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