Stevie set for 400 not out
Steven Gerrard is set to make his 400th top-flight appearance for Liverpool in Tuesday night's Merseyside derby with Everton. Here are all the facts and figures from club statto Ged Rea.
In doing so the skipper will become only the 14th player to achieve the feat. The last man to reach 400 league appearances was Jamie Carragher.
Head to head: (League only)
At Anfield: Liverpool 39 wins, Everton 23 wins, 30 draws.
Overall: Liverpool 71 wins, Everton 57 wins, 57 draws.
Earlier this season Liverpool won 2-0 at Goodison with Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scoring in the last 20 minutes. Everton had Jack Rodwell sent off and Dirk Kuyt saw his penalty saved by Tim Howard.
In this fixture last season the teams shared four goals. Raul Meireles put Liverpool ahead with his first goal for the club but Sylvain Distin and Jermaine Beckford put the Blues ahead early in the second half before Dirk Kuyt equalised from the penalty spot.
Liverpool have won 85 of the 216 meetings in all competitions with Everton winning 66.
This will be the 186th league meeting with the Reds having won 71 to the Blues 57. It is the most played derby in English league football.
Jamie Carragher has now played 25 Premier League derbies - more than any other player. This will be his 28th in all competitions if selected.
The Reds win at Goodison back in October was Kenny Dalglish's 150th in league games as Liverpool manager.
If Liverpool score four times they will record 150 in all derby meetings at Anfield, while three goals will give them 300 against the Blues in all fixtures.
Liverpool are looking to record their fifth Premier League 'double' over Everton and their fourth in seven seasons.
Of the current Liverpool players, only Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt, Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez have scored for the club against Everton.
Gerrard and Kuyt have both scored five.
The last player to score a hat-trick in a league Derby was Ian Rush. He scored four in a 5-0 win at Goodison in November 1982 - the only Liverpool player to achieve the feat at the home of the Blues.
Four Liverpool players have scored derby hat-tricks at Anfield. The last was Fred Howe in September 1935. The others were Harry Chambers (1922), Dick Forshaw (1925) and Harold Barton (1933).
Liverpool are aiming for the first time ever to beat Everton in a weekday league clash at Anfield under floodlights. They have met eight previous times with seven resulting in draws.
Andy Carroll's goal at Goodison in the Reds 2-0 win was Liverpool's 250th against Everton in the league. It was also Liverpool's 9,000th goal in the Football League and cup matches.
Liverpool's biggest derby win at home came in September 1935 when they won 6-0.
When failing to score from the spot against Arsenal Liverpool equalled the club record of six penalty misses in a season (excluding shoot-outs) previously set in 1963-64 and 1972-73.
The Reds have lost just three of the last 24 meetings home and away - all at Goodison.
The Reds are unbeaten in the last 11 league meetings on this ground - winning five and drawing six.
Home and away Liverpool have lost one of the last 10 league meetings - at Goodison last season.
When Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored at Goodison in the first meeting of the season it was the first occasion since December 2005 that two men had scored for the Reds on their derby debut in the same game - Peter Crouch and Djibril Cisse found the net that night.
Liverpool have not lost back-to-back home league games since January 2005 when they were beaten by Chelsea and Manchester United.
They have never lost successive home league games under Kenny Dalglish.
Dirk Kuyt is the only player to score two penalties in a derby. The penalty in the last meeting at Anfield was his third to equal Phil Neal's record from the spot against the Blues.
Since scoring at Goodison on the first day of October Luis Suarez has scored twice in the league.
Martin Kelly could play the 50th game of his senior club career. That tally includes a spell on loan with Huddersfield Town three seasons ago.
Liverpool have won one of their last eight league games, taking five points out of a possible 24 with five defeats in that time.
Liverpool have lost three league games in a row for the first time since October 2003. The last time they lost four in succession was in December 2002 under Gerard Houllier.
Only four times since they returned to the top-flight in 1962 have they been beaten four times on the spin.
They have however never suffered that run under Kenny Dalglish.
Liverpool have scored 15 goals in 13 home league games this season. In four cup ties at Anfield this season they have also netted 15 times.
A win for Everton will take them above Liverpool for the first time since the middle of September.
This game features two of the lowest scorers in the league this season. Only four teams have scored fewer than Liverpool's 30 - one of which is Everton who have 28. Only Stoke 27 and Wigan 24 have netted fewer than the Blues.
The Blues last won at Anfield in September 1999 when Kevin Campbell scored the winner four minutes into the game.
Everton have won two of their last 25 league visits to Anfield. As well as that victory in 1999 they also beat Liverpool on this ground in 1995 with Andrei Kanchelskis scoring both in a 2-1 victory.
When saving Dirk Kuyt's penalty at Goodison last October Tim Howard became the first Everton 'keeper ever to save a penalty in a league game.
He was only the fourth player ever to save a spot-kick in a Merseyside 'derby' following George Kitchen (Everton - in a FA Cup tie) and Reds Sam Hardy and Bruce Grobbelaar.
This game comes the day before David Moyes celebrates his 10th anniversary as Everton boss.
He has joined Harry Catterick and Bill Shankly in managing teams in Merseyside derbies in 10 consecutive seasons.
His record as Blues manager has seen him register 152 wins in 378 league games with 104 defeats.
56 Premier League managers have left or lost their jobs since Moyes was appointed at Goodison.
Moyes has won three of the 19 league derby matches as Everton manager.
The last Everton player to score a goal in the first-half of an Anfield derby was Kevin Campbell in the Blues 3-1 defeat in October 2000. They have visited 10 times since.
Dixie Dean is the last Everton player to hit a hat-trick for the Blues against Liverpool - at Anfield in September 1931 in a 3-1 win.
The Toffees have scored more than once in only 1 of the last dozen league visits last season's 2-2 draw.
Everton's biggest win on this ground came in October 1914 when they won 5-0.
All of Everton's nine Premier League derby wins have come in the first fixture of the season. The last time they won the second meeting in a season was in 1988 when they won 1-0 at Goodison.
In the Barclays Premier League era Everton have won twice at Anfield, losing eight and drawing nine.
The Toffees next goal will be their 250th against Liverpool in all competitions.
Twenty players have been sent-off in the fixture in the 39 Premier League fixtures (though Jack Rodwell's earlier this season was rescinded), with 11 coming in the last 14 clashes.
The Blues have scored more than twice against Liverpool in one of the last 89 meetings. That day they won 3-0 at Goodison in September 2006.
Everton have scored five and missed two of the seven penalties they have been awarded in post-war league games.
Phil Neville and Steven Gerrard are the only players to be sent-off twice in Merseyside derbies.
The Blues have been awarded one penalty at Anfield in the last 74 years - Wayne Clarke scored in December 1988.
They have come from behind only once to win a derby since the war - that was in 1992 when Peter Beardsley scored the winner at Goodison.
Everton have lost just one of the last six away games in the Premier League - at Tottenham in January.
Since that defeat they are unbeaten in nine games, seven of which have come in the league. After Manchester United, Everton's is the second longest unbeaten run in the Premier League.
If the Blues avoid defeat tonight it will be their longest unbeaten league run since they went the last 11 games of the 2009-10 season without losing.
They have let in just 13 goals in the last 19 games in all competitions. In that time they have only conceded twice in a game - to Bolton and Tottenham.
Only twice in the last six games has their defence been penetrated.
Victor Anichebe has scored in three of Everton's last five away league games.
Everton's leading scorers this season have three goals each - Leon Osman, Leighton Baines, Apostolos Vellios, Royston Drenthe and Victor Anichebe. That tally is the lowest leading score of any Premier League club this season.
The Blues have gone 48 league games since their last goalless draw.
Their last three fixtures on the road have all finished as 1-1 draws - at Aston Villa, Wigan and in their last away fixture at QPR.
Scorers this season:- (league in brackets)
Liverpool: Suarez 10 (6), Bellamy 9 (6), Carroll 6 (3), Gerrard 6 (2), Kuyt 4 (1), Maxi 4 (2), Skrtel 4 (2), Adam 2 (2), Agger 1 (0), Downing 1 (0), Henderson 1 (1), Johnson 1 (1), Kelly 1 (0), Shelvey 1 (0), own goals 6 (4).
Everton: Anichebe 4 (3), Baines 4 (3), Drenthe 4 (3), Fellaini 3 (1), Osman 3 (3), Stracqualursi 3 (1), Vellios 3 (3), Arteta 2 (1), Jagielka 2 (2), Rodwell 2 (2), Saha 2 (1), Cahill 1 (1), Gibson 1 (1), Heitinga 1 (0), Howard 1 (1), Jelavic 1 (1), Neville 1 (0), Pienaar 1 (1), own goals 1 (1).