Kickoff: 1600 GMT (4:00 pm)
Location: Anfield Stadium, Liverpool.
Head-to-Head
As soccer fans across the globe prepare to witness a battle of points in the match between Liverpool FC and Chelsea FC which is to be held at Liverpool's home, Anfield Stadium, we quickly take a review of the statistics in the meetings between these two football giants:
Liverpool has lost only two of their last 12 league meetings with Chelsea and are unbeaten in the last five encounters (W4, D1).
Liverpool won last season's corresponding fixture 4-1 to exact revenge for their FA Cup final defeat three days earlier and end Chelsea's hopes of a top-four finish.
The two clubs have met 33 times in various competitions in the last eight seasons. Chelsea won 13 of those games, and Liverpool 12. Liverpool has registered back-to-back goalless draws for the first time since December 2008.
They have never drawn 0-0 in three top-flight matches in a row. They have taken 14 points out of the last available 21 (W4, D2, L1). The Reds are four points and 19 goals better off than at this stage last season.
Only Manchester City have kept more clean sheets this season than Liverpool's 13. Luis Suarez needs one goal to become the first Liverpool player to score 30 in a season in all competitions since Fernando Torres in 2007-08.
Steven Gerrard has scored 98 Premier League goals. Chelsea- Chelsea have five more points than at the same stage last season. They ended a three-match losing streak in away fixtures by beating Fulham 3-0 in midweek.
Rafa Benitez managed Liverpool for six years from June 2004, winning the Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup.
Fernando Torres has scored 14 goals in 75 league games for Chelsea; he reached 50 league goals after just 72 appearances for Liverpool - a club record. He has 32 goals in 122 appearances for Chelsea in all competitions, compared to 81 goals in 142 games for Liverpool.
Frank Lampard made his 600th appearance for Chelsea in the midweek win over Fulham. He is two goals shy of Bobby Tambling's club record tally of 202.
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