MatchBournemouth v Liverpool stats: Gomez landmark, Iraola return, goal records and more

Matchday five of the campaign sees the Reds visit Vitality Stadium for a 2pm BST kick-off.

Opta and LFC statistician Ged Rea have shared the following trivia related to the encounter...

Liverpool have completed a league double over the Cherries in six of the last nine seasons when the two teams have met.

Joe Gomez's next game will be the 300th appearance of his club career.

Liverpool only failed to score in one of their previous 18 Premier League games against Bournemouth. They average three goals per match (54 in 18), their highest average against any side they have faced 10-plus times in the competition.

The Reds have drawn three of their first four fixtures (won one) in a Premier League season for the first time since 2005-06. They drew their fifth game that season, which is the only time they have drawn four of their opening five league games in a season.

Bournemouth have lost 14 of their 18 Premier League games against Liverpool (won three, drawn one), though all three victories have come at home – 4-3 in December 2016, 1-0 in March 2023, and 3-2 in January 2026.

Bournemouth have failed to win any of their four Premier League games this season (drawn three, lost one), despite leading in all of them; only Manchester City in January 2004 and Tottenham Hotspur in both October 2007 and December 2023 have ever gone five successive games in the competition's history of leading and not winning.

The Cherries have drawn 13 of their 23 Premier League matches in 2026 (won eight, lost two), the highest ratio by a team in a single year in the history of the English top flight (56.5 per cent).

Liverpool have kept clean sheets in each of their last two Premier League games, more than in their previous 13 combined (one). They haven't gone three in a row without conceding since a run of four between May and September 2024.

Andoni Iraola is set to face former club Bournemouth for the first time, with this the first time a Liverpool manager has faced one of their former Premier League clubs since March 2015 when Brendan Rodgers won 1-0 against Swansea City.

Iraola was in charge of Bournemouth for 127 games in all competitions from 2023 to 2026, winning 48. He won 41 of his 114 fixtures in the Premier League.

Reds bosses are unbeaten in seven against former sides (won five, drawn two) since Kenny Dalglish's side lost 2-0 to Newcastle United in April 2012.

No side has had more shots on target in the Premier League this season than Bournemouth (24), with their six per game under Marco Rose the most under any of the five managers to take charge of the Cherries in the competition.

Marcus Tavernier has scored in four of his last five Premier League appearances for Bournemouth (four goals), having only scored four times in his previous 24 games.

Bournemouth are unbeaten in eight Premier League home matches played on a Sunday (won four, drawn four), although their last defeat was by Liverpool (0-4 in January 2024).

In Iraola's third away game in charge, Liverpool are looking to win back-to-back away matches in the Premier League, something they only managed twice in the whole of last season (September and February).

Of all sides they have faced 15-plus times in the Premier League, only against Wolverhampton Wanderers (79.2 per cent) do the Reds have a better win rate than versus Bournemouth (77.8 per cent – 14/18).

Bournemouth boss Marco Rose has faced Liverpool once before in his managerial career, losing 1-0 with RB Leipzig in the 2024-25 Champions League league phase.

Among all players in both current squads, the only one with multiple goals in this Premier League fixture is Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk (two), who scored against the Cherries in August 2022 and January 2026.