41 match facts from LFC's statto

Head to head (league only):
At Anfield: Liverpool 17 wins, Fulham 0 wins, 7 draws.
Overall: Liverpool 27 wins, Fulham 9 wins, 13 draws.

Earlier this season Fulham won 1-0 at Craven Cottage with Clint Dempsey scoring the winner five minutes from time. This came 13 minutes after Jay Spearing had been sent off for a foul on Moussa Dembele. It brought to an end a Reds run of six away wins in a row in all competitions.

Last season's meeting at Anfield also finished 1-0 to the home team, with a Fulham player scoring the goal - John Pantsil putting through his own net early in the second half.

Liverpool's biggest win over Fulham in the league came in November 1955 when they won 7-0.

Overall, in the Premier League, Liverpool have won 12 and drawn four of the 21 meetings, while at Anfield have won six with the other four ending all-square. 

The only Liverpool player to score a hat-trick in this fixture at Anfield was Billy Liddell. He did so in September 1954 with the help of two penalties.

Liverpool's win here last season was Kenny Dalglish's first home win since he returned to the managerial hot-seat.

This will be the 50th league meeting between the teams with Liverpool losing just nine.

The Reds have won as many Premier League games against Fulham at Anfield (six) as they have against them in London.

Liverpool's win at Norwich last weekend was their first in the league on a day other than a Tuesday since December 30 when they beat Newcastle at Anfield.

Jamie Carragher, with 17, has made more appearances for Liverpool against Fulham than any other player in Reds history.

Luis Suarez scored Liverpool's 30th Premier League hat-trick last Saturday and in doing so became the 13th different player for the club to achieve the feat.

He could play his 50th game for the club in all competitions against Fulham and has scored 21 goals in his previous 49 appearances.

Suarez has scored six goals in his last six games in league and cup.

Steven Gerrard will captain Liverpool for the 250th time in the Premier League if he starts. 

Maxi's last appearance against Fulham saw him score a hat-trick in a 5-2 win at Craven Cottage almost 12 months ago.

Liverpool have won three of their last four games in all competitions with the only blemish in that time being the home defeat by West Brom.

A win tonight will be the first time in 2012 they have won back-to-back league games. They defeated QPR and Aston Villa in mid-December.

If Liverpool win their three remaining league games they will equal the points tally of 58 they achieved last season.  

The Reds' clean sheet at Norwich was their first in nine games in league and cup.

Fulham are looking to record a league 'double' over Liverpool for the first time in their history.

The Cottagers have not scored in their last five games at Anfield, and have found the net just twice in the last 10 visits.

The only players to score for them in front of the Kop in the Premier League era are Andy Cole (2005) and Collins John (2006).

Fulham have never won at Anfield in any competition in 30 visits.

They have never won in the league at Anfield or Goodison in 48 visits with 11 draws and 37 defeats.

They have scored 17 goals in 21 Premier League meetings with the Reds, with 15 of those coming at home.

The only Fulham player to score a hat-trick against Liverpool is Roy Dwight who did so in 1956. Dwight is the uncle of singing legend Elton John.

Clint Dempsey is Fulham's leading scorer in the Premier League with 49 goals. His first came against Liverpool in May 2007. He has scored four goals in his last five games.

Fulham last scored more than once in a game at Anfield when they recovered from conceding in the first minute to draw 2-2 in October 1966. Both the visitors goals that day were scored by future England international Allan Clarke.

Fulham have won 15 of their last 131 away league games.

Only Blackburn and Wolves have won fewer away league games in the top-flight than Fulham's three. Those wins came at Wigan (2-0), QPR (1-0) and Bolton (3-0).

They have scored only 11 away league goals, the lowest along with Stoke, in all four divisions.

However, only four teams - the Manchester clubs, Chelsea and Tottenham - have conceded fewer away than Fulham's 23.

Their 4-0 defeat at Everton last Saturday was their first in five games.

Martin Jol is the club's sixth Premier League boss and the win at Craven Cottage earlier this season was his first over Liverpool in eight clashes in all competitions as a manager.

John Arne Riise played 348 times for Liverpool scoring 31 goals, though he never managed to score against Fulham in 11 apprearances.

Danny Murphy has yet to score against Liverpool in 12 appearances since leaving Anfield in 1994. The win at Craven Cottage in December was his first over his former club.

Pavel Pogrebnyak has scored once in his last six games after netting five in his first three following his January signing from Stuttgart.

Two players have appeared in every Fulham league game this season - Brede Hangeland and Clint Dempsey.

Lee Probert is due to take charge of this game. He has refereed the Reds four times this season and they have won them all - beating Bolton, Newcastle at home and Chelsea away (all in the league) and Stoke away in the Carling Cup.

Scorers this season:
Liverpool: Suarez 17 (11), Bellamy 9 (6), Gerrard 9 (5), Carroll 8 (4), Maxi 6 (4), Kuyt 5 (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).
Fulham: Dempsey 22 (16), Johnson 11 (3), Zamora 7 (5), Duff 6 (2), Murphy 6 (2), Pogrebnyak 6 (6), Sidwell 3 (1), Ruiz 2 (2), Briggs 1 (0), Dembele 1 (1), Diarra 1 (1), Frei 1 (0), Hughes 1 (0), Sa 1 (1), Senderos 1 (1), own goals 4 (4).