Preview12 pre-Wolves stats: Gakpo goal milestone, a rare double-header and more

The first of two visits to Molineux for the Reds this week gets under way at 8.15pm GMT, with Arne Slot’s side seeking a fifth consecutive win in all competitions.

See a range of pre-match facts and figures provided by club statistician Ged Rea below…

Liverpool are seeking their eighth league double over Wolves in nine seasons and their 19th across all league encounters.

The Reds have won the last six Premier League meetings, with the last three each coming by a 2-1 scoreline.

Cody Gakpo’s next goal will see him become the 58th player to score 50 goals for Liverpool in all competitions – and the second Dutchman to do so, after Dirk Kuyt.

All of Gakpo’s eight goals this season have been scored after half-time.

Alexis Mac Allister has scored in each of his last two appearances. Never before has he scored in three successive Reds fixtures.

No Liverpool player has ever scored a hat-trick against Wolves in any competition.

Virgil van Dijk scored his first league goal for Liverpool at Molineux in a 2-0 win over Wolves in December 2018.

Mohamed Salah has scored a penalty in each of his last two appearances against Wolves.

Curtis Jones made his Reds debut in an Emirates FA Cup defeat at Molineux in 2019.

The teams will meet again in the FA Cup at Molineux on Friday evening. This will be only the seventh time ever Liverpool play the same team away from home two games running in a single season, and the first since September 2017 against Leicester City.

The Reds have won 17 of the last 18 league encounters between the clubs – a run going back to January 2011. The only defeat in that sequence was in February 2023 when they went down 3-0 at Molineux.

Wolves go into this match having scored the fewest goals in the Premier League this season (20), while only Burnley (56) and West Ham United (54) have conceded more than their total of 51.