40 great pre-Villa stats
Here are all the pre-match facts and stats courtesy of LFC encyclopaedia Ged Rea.
Head to head (league only):
At Anfield: Liverpool 54 wins, Villa 15 wins, 17 draws.
Overall: Liverpool 82 wins, Villa 53 wins, 38 draws.
Earlier this season Liverpool won 2-0 at Villa Park, scoring both goals in the opening 15 minutes with strikes from Craig Bellamy and Martin Skrtel.
Last season the Reds won this fixture 3-0 at Anfield. Early first-half goals from David Ngog and Ryan Babel (his last for the club) were added to by Maxi on 55 minutes.
Since the inception of the Premier League, Liverpool have won 21 meetings and Villa 10, with the other eight being drawn.
Stewart Downing's final goal for Aston Villa came on the final day of last season against Liverpool at Villa Park. It is his last Premier League goal.
Martin Skrtel's goal at Villa Park this season was the 100th scored in Premier League meetings between the sides. He made his Reds debut as a substitute against Villa at Anfield in January 2008 in a 2-2 draw.
Liverpool's biggest win over today's opponents came in October 1953 when they won 6-1.
Liverpool have gained 71 points against Villa in the Premier League - more than against any other team.
Five Liverpool players have scored league hat-tricks against Villa - Bobby Graham (1964), Ian Rush (1984), Robbie Fowler (1998), Michael Owen (2000) and Steven Gerrard (2009).
Steven Gerrard has scored more goals against Villa (10) than any other side. Only Robbie Fowler (12) and Roger Hunt (10) have netted more league goals for Liverpool against the Villains than Stevie's nine.
Stewart Downing scored nine goals his 63 league appearances for Villa during his two-season stay which ended with his move to Anfield last summer.
The Reds have lost once in the last nine games with Villa at Anfield - beaten 3-1 in August 2009
Home and away, Liverpool have lost twice in the last 20 meetings.
Liverpool have scored 17 goals in the last six home games against Aston Villa.
In Liverpool's last home game, Raheem Sterling made his debut to become the third youngest recorded player in the club's history aged 17 years 107 days. Only Jack Robinson (16 years 250 days -2010) and John McFarlane (17 years 47 days - 1929) were younger when they made their bow.
Craig Bellamy could make his 50th league appearance for Liverpool.
Jose Enrique could play his 150th league game in English football - 119 of those with Newcastle.
This will be the 50th league game of Kenny's second spell in charge of the Reds. He has won 21 and drawn 12 of the previous 49.
Whichever goalkeeper the Reds employ today, he will be the 14th regular 'keeper to appear between the sticks for the club in the Premier League. It brings to an end Pepe Reina's run of 183 games and 16,463 minutes in succession in the league.
Reina last missed a league game for Liverpool on the final day of the 2006-07 season when he was rested ahead of the Champions League final. The Reds were held 2-2 by Charlton.
Jamie Carragher, with 25, has made more appearances against Villa than any player in the Reds' history.
Villa have not kept a clean sheet in the last 11 league visits to Anfield.
They have won four of the last 32 games at Anfield dating back to 1977-78.
Villa's biggest League win over Liverpool at Anfield came in November 1914 when they won 6-3.
Should they score two goals today Villa will record 250 in league football against Liverpool.
Alex McLeish and Kenny Dalglish appeared together 23 times for Scotland and were teammates at the 1982 World Cup finals. In total, Kenny played 102 times for his country (a record) while McLeish won 77 caps.
His last encounter with Liverpool at Anfield came a year ago when his Birmingham side lost 5-0 at Anfield with Maxi Rodriguez scoring a hat-trick.
McLeish has never been on the winning side against Liverpool in six attempts as a manager.
Villa have scored against the Reds in two of the last seven league clashes home and away.
Emile Heskey has yet to score against Liverpool in 16 games during his career.
Stephen Warnock is yet to be on the winning side against Liverpool since leaving Anfield in 2007. In seven attempts he has drawn one and lost six.
The last Villa player to score a hat-trick in the fixture was George Brown. He scored four in his side's 6-1 win at Villa Park in January 1932.
Villa have won three times on the road in the top-flight this season, recording victories at Bolton (2-1), Chelsea (3-1) and Wolves (3-2).
However, in four away games since the win at Molineux they have failed to record a victory.
No team has drawn more games on the road this season than Villa. Eight of their 15 away league games have ended in stalemate.
They have won one of their last eight league games - picking up six points out of the last possible 24 - and two of last 11.
Villa have won one of the last 16 matches against then top-half opposition - that was a 3-1 victory at Chelsea on New Year's Eve.
The Villains have been beaten in their last two league games - to Arsenal and Chelsea - and are aiming to avoid losing three in succession for the first time since December 2010. The third game in that sequence was at Anfield.
Their last two games have seen them concede seven goals.
Scorers this season (league in brackets):
Liverpool: Suarez 12 (7), Bellamy 9 (6), Gerrard 9 (5), Carroll 6 (3), Kuyt 5 (2), Maxi 4 (2), Skrtel 4 (2), Adam 2 (2), Downing 2 (0), Agger 1 (0), Coates 1 (1), Henderson 1 (1), Johnson 1 (1), Kelly 1 (0), Shelvey 1 (0), own goals 6 (4).
Villa: Bent 10 (9), Agbonlahor 6 (5), Petrov 4 (4), Albrighton 3 (2), Keane 3 (3), Dunne 2 (1), Lichaj 2 (1), N'Zogbia 2 (2), Bannan 1 (1), Clark 1 (0), Collins 1 (1), Delfouneso 1 (0), Heskey 1 (1), Ireland 1 (1), Warnock 1 (1), Weimann 1 (1).