Wolves v Liverpool: Pre-match stats

Overall League Record:

At Wolves: Liverpool 15 wins, 10 draws, Wolves 21 wins.

Overall: Liverpool 46 wins, 17 draws, Wolves 30 wins.

Earlier this season Liverpool won 2-1 at Anfield. The Reds were two-up in 38 minutes thanks to a Roger Johnson own goal on 11 minutes and Luis Suarez. Boyhood Liverpool fan Steven Fletcher pulled one back four minutes into the second half.

Liverpool won 3-0 at Molineux last season. It was Kenny Dalglish's first win since taking over as Caretaker-Manager. Fernando Torres scored his final goals for the club with Raul Meireles' outstanding strike sandwiched in between.

In the last 25 league meetings home and away the Reds have prevented Wolves from scoring on 14 occasions.

In the Barclays Premier League the Reds have won one and drawn two of the three meetings at Molineux and have won four and drawn two of the seven games played home and away.

In those seven games Liverpool have conceded three goals.

The Liverpool win here last season followed three successive draws at Wolves and prior to that three successive defeats - just one win in the last seven visits.

Kenny Dalglish has managed Liverpool against Wolves on only two occasions with the Reds winning both.

Pepe Reina has conceded only two goals in his five appearances against Wolves.

Maxi made his first start for Liverpool in this fixture at Molineux in January 2010.

Luis Suarez and Craig Bellamy are joint leading scorers for the Reds in the league with five. Bellamy has played for 641 minutes, Suarez 1,464.

Six of Bellamy's eight goals in all competitions this season have been scored in the first half.

Dirk Kuyt's next goal will be his 50^th in the league for Liverpool. Only Robbie Fowler (128), Michael Owen (118), Steven Gerrard (86) and Fernando Torres (65) have scored more Premier League goals for the Reds.

Pepe Reina, Jose Enrique and Charlie Adam have started all 22 of the Reds Barclays Premier League games this season.

The Reds are looking for their first league win of 2012 having drawn one and lost two of the three games played.

They have won just one of the last six in the Barclays Premier League and away from Anfield taken maximum points in just one of the last five.

In all competitions they have lost two of the last 12 games.

A win for Liverpool will see them beat their away points tally for the whole of last season - they won 18 points last season and currently have 16 in this campaign.

Liverpool have conceded six goals in their last two away league games after having leaked two in their previous six on the road.

Liverpool and Wolves have each scored 25 league goals this season.

The Reds have lost all three games this season when they have conceded a goal in the opening 15 minutes.

Liverpool are three goals short of recording 500 in the league during Kenny Dalglish's two spells as manager and they need three goals to score 700 under Kenny in all competitions. This will be his 361^st game in charge.

The Reds have won five of the last 20 league games they have played during the month of January.

Prior to last season Liverpool's last win at Molineux came in April 1979 when Alan Hansen scored the only goal of the game. Reds' boss Kenny Dalglish was in the side that day.

No Liverpool player has ever scored a hat-trick against Wolves in any competition.

Liverpool's biggest ever win at Molineux came in September 1968 - the Reds winning 6-0.

The Reds heaviest defeat here was the 4-1 reverse they suffered in November 1980 - Kenny Dalglish was in the Liverpool side that day.

In the last 15 games on this ground Liverpool have won five, drawn five and lost five.

Liverpool have kept three clean sheets in their last 10 league visits to Wolves.

The seven Barclays Premier League meetings home and away have produced a total of 12 goals.

Wolves have scored once against Liverpool in three home Barclays Premier League meetings - Kenny Miller with a 90^th minute equaliser in January 2004.

The Midlanders go into this game without a win in their last 10 games in all competitions.

Wolves have won three of 11 league games at home. They beat Fulham (2-0), Wigan (3-1) and Sunderland early last month (2-1).

They have not kept a league clean sheet since drawing 0-0 at Aston Villa in August. That came six days after their only home clean sheet so far in that win over Fulham.

After keeping two clean sheets in their opening three league games they have not kept any in the 19.

They have drawn four of the last six league games and not won in eight top-flight games since coming from behind to beat Sunderland.

Wayne Hennessey has saved two penalties this season - from Ben Watson (Wigan) who scored the rebound and Sunderland's Sebastian Larsson.

Steven Fletcher is Wolves' leading scorer with nine top-flight goals in this campaign, six more than the next best players Stephen Ward and Stephen Hunt.

After a draw with Aston Villa in August Wolves topped the table briefly for the second time this season - the last time before this campaign was September 1962.

After winning the opening two fixtures they have won only two of 19 league games.

Home and away they have scored more than once against Liverpool in just one of the last 25 games - the 4-1 win in 1980.

Current League Positions:

Liverpool: Pld 22, W 9, D 8, L 5, Goals for 25, Against 21, Pts 35, Position: 7^th.

Wolves: Pld 22, W 4, D 6, L 12, Goals for 25, Against 40, Pts 18, Position: 19^th.

Scorers (league in brackets):

Liverpool: Bellamy 8 (5), Suarez 8 (5), Gerrard 5 (2), Carroll 4 (2), Maxi 4 (2), Adam 2 (2), Kuyt 2 (0), Skrtel 2 (2), Agger 1 (0), Downing 1 (0), Henderson 1 (1), Johnson 1 (1), Kelly 1 (0), Shelvey 1 (0), own goals 3 (3).

Wolves: Fletcher 9 (9), Ebanks-Blake 3 (1), Edwards 3 (2), Hunt 3 (3), O'Hara 3 (2), Ward 3 (3), Doyle 2 (2), Milijas 2 (0), Elokobi 1 (0), Guedioura 1 (0), Hammill 1 (0), Jarvis 1 (1), Kightly 1 (1), Spray 1 (0), Vokes 1 (0), Zubar 1 (1).