Liverpool head into today's meeting with Brighton and Hove Albion seeking to go a full league season unbeaten at home for only the second time in the last 30 years.

The feat was last achieved by Rafa Benitez's Reds in 2008-09 - that being just the 10th time in the club's history such a run had been put together.

A point against the Seagulls would also almost certainly be enough for Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool to secure a top-four Premier League finish a place in the Champions League next term.

For more need-to-know pre-match facts and figures, courtesy of club statistician Ged Rea, read on...

This will be Liverpool's 1,000th Premier League game in total and 500th at home.

The last time Brighton faced the Reds in the league at Anfield was in 1982, when they lost 3-1.

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The sides' last meeting at the stadium in any competition came in the FA Cup in February 2012 when the Reds won 6-1.

Only Jordan Henderson and Lewis Dunk from that game remain at their clubs.

Dunk has scored an own goal in each of his last two appearances against the Reds.

Liverpool's 5-1 win at the AMEX earlier this season was their biggest ever victory at Brighton. 

Should the Reds score five today it will be the eighth time in their history that they have netted five or more in both league meetings with an opponent in a single season. 

Norwich were the last side to suffer that fate, doing so in 2012-13 with Chris Hughton in the dugout.

The Reds have scored in all but two of their 17 league clashes with Brighton.

Adam Lallana could make his 100th league appearance for Liverpool today.

Only 12 players have ever scored more goals for Liverpool in the Premier League era than Mohamed Salah, who has netted 31 in his debut season. One of them is Roberto Firmino, who has 36.

Salah requires one more goal this season to become Liverpool's record scorer in a single Premier League campaign - beating Luis Suarez's landmark of 31 from 2013-14.

Should today's crowd exceed 52,951, it will set a new aggregate attendance record at Anfield for a league campaign - beating the total of 1,010,170, established in 1972-73.

It will be only the fourth time in the club's history a million or more tickets have been sold for an Anfield league season.