The pre-match stats on Liverpool-Swansea
Liverpool wrap up 2014 with an Anfield clash against Swansea City on Monday evening - here is a selection of interesting facts and figures ahead of the match.
In league football, there have been 26 encounters between the two sides. The Reds have won 12, Swansea seven and seven matches have been drawn. Liverpool are unbeaten at Anfield in those contests.
The Reds are looking to record a third successive win over the Swans in all competitions for the first time since 1958, when they achieved four consecutive victories.
The hosts have scored 60 goals against Swansea in the 20 meetings at Anfield in all competitions. The Reds have scored at least four goals in eight of their 13 league fixtures in L4.
Last season's clash on Merseyside saw seven goals scored. In only one game between them has there been more - Liverpool's 5-4 defeat at the Vetch Field in October 1959.
The only league hat-trick scored by a Liverpool player against today's opponents came in November 1961, when Roger Hunt hit three in a 5-0 win at Anfield. No Swans player has ever scored a hat-trick against the Reds.
Joe Allen played 127 league games for Swansea, scoring seven times, while Fabio Borini scored six in nine league appearances while on loan at the Welsh outfit from Chelsea in 2010-11.
Philippe Coutinho scored his first Liverpool goal in a 5-0 win over the Swans in February 2013.
Of the 11 Barclays Premier League goals scored by Liverpool against Swansea, Daniel Sturridge has the most with four. Only Jordan Henderson of the others who have netted against the Welshmen has scored more than once.
A win tonight would give the Reds an average of two points per game in the calendar year - 76 from 38 games. That feat has been beaten only once since 1990.
Mario Balotelli, Steven Gerrard and Martin Skrtel will avoid suspension for an accumulation of five yellow cards if they do not get booked tonight - the cut-off point is midnight on New Year's Eve.
Former Reds midfielder Jonjo Shelvey scored in both league meetings last season. He scored seven times for Liverpool in 69 league and cup appearances.
Only one Swansea manager has presided over a team that has kept a clean sheet at Anfield in the 20 meetings in league and cup - Brendan Rodgers in a goalless draw in November 2011.
The visitors have found the net in each of their last eight games. The last time they failed to trouble the scoresheet was their previous visit to Merseyside, when they played out a 0-0 stalemate with Everton.