Pre-match statsJordan Henderson on brink of LFC captaincy milestone

The midfielder is in line to skipper the Reds for the 250th time in all competitions as they face Steve Cooper’s side at the City Ground.

Read on for more pre-match statistics on the 12.30pm BST kick-off…

The teams are meeting in the league for the first time since April 1999, when Jamie Redknapp and Michael Owen scored for Liverpool in a 2-2 away draw.

They did, however, face off at the City Ground last season in the Emirates FA Cup quarter-finals, with Diogo Jota netting the only goal of the tie.

The Reds have yet to win at Forest in the Premier League era, drawing three and losing twice, while scoring only four times in the five clashes.

Overall, the sides have met on 100 previous occasions in league football and Liverpool have won exactly half of those.

Fabio Carvalho could play the 50th league match of his career, with the first 40 having come with Fulham.

Stefan Bajcetic celebrates his 18th birthday on the day of the game.

Jürgen Klopp’s men have failed to score in only one league fixture in 2022 so far, during a goalless draw at Everton last month.

The visit of the Reds will be Cooper’s 50th league match in charge of Forest. He has overseen 23 wins, 13 draws and 13 defeats (seven of those losses coming this season).

Neco Williams played 33 times for Liverpool between 2019 and 2022 and then joined Forest in the summer, as did Taiwo Awoniyi, who spent six years at Anfield without ever making an appearance before joining Union Berlin on a permanent basis in July 2021.