Stoke v Liverpool: The pre-match stats

If selected, Gerrard will play his 710th game for Liverpool and his 504th in the league. He will captain the Reds for the 470th time and the 343rd in the Premier League.

Should he play in this match, the No.8's first-team career at Anfield from first game to last will span 16 years, 177 days - the sixth longest on record and 46 days more than his great friend Jamie Carragher.

He is the only player to score for the club in 16 successive seasons and he has scored more penalties for Liverpool than any other player - 47.

In league football, Liverpool have claimed 58 wins against Stoke, there have been 32 draws and the Potters have been victorious on 29 occasions.

Earlier this season, the Reds won 1-0 at Anfield - Glen Johnson scored the only goal with five minutes remaining.

Last season's meeting at the Britannia Stadium produced eight goals, with Liverpool winning 5-3. It was their first victory in the league at Stoke in six visits.

Home and away, Liverpool have lost only four of the last 29 meetings - all of them in the Potteries.

They have won the last three league meetings home and away. The last time they recorded a fourth successive league win against Sunday's opponents was in August 1973.

Liverpool's biggest away league win at Stoke came in March 1982 when they won 5-1, with Terry McDermott, Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Sammy Lee and Ronnie Whelan all scoring.

The only Reds player to score a hat-trick at Stoke was Robbie Fowler in an 8-0 League Cup victory at the Britannia in November 2000.

Simon Mignolet saved a Jon Walters penalty on his debut at Anfield last season. Last weekend, he became the first Liverpool goalkeeper since David James in 1994-95 to save two penalties in a single league campaign.

The teams have met six times previously on the final day of the season. The first, back in 1923, saw Liverpool win 1-0 at Anfield. Since then, all the meetings have been in the Potteries, with City winning them all - the last in 1968.

The Reds' best final day win in the Premier League was the 5-0 success over Ipswich Town in 2002.

This is Stoke's seventh successive season in the Premier League. They will equal their best ever finish of ninth, which they achieved last season. Their current tally of 51 points is more than they have ever achieved in the division.

Peter Crouch made his Stoke debut against the Reds in this fixture in 2011. He scored 42 goals in 134 appearances in a Liverpool shirt.

Charlie Adam played 37 times in all competitions for Liverpool, scoring twice before his move to Stoke. He has scored in four of his team's last seven games.

Steven Nzonzi has started every league match this season and has missed only two of Stoke's last 108 Premier League fixtures.

Mark Hughes has won two of 17 games against the Reds in his managerial career, one each with Blackburn Rovers and Queens Park Rangers.