PreviewLiverpool v Brentford: 17 pre-match stats to know
The Reds host the Bees at Anfield on Sunday afternoon (4pm BST kick-off) knowing that a draw would guarantee a top-five finish and qualification for the 2026-27 Champions League.
Here are 17 pre-match facts and figures to know, courtesy of LFC statistician Ged Rea and Opta…
There have been 24 competitive matches between the clubs, with Liverpool winning 15 and Brentford five. The Reds have scored in all but one of those fixtures.
In nine of the last 12 meetings in all competitions, at least one of the teams has scored three goals.
Liverpool were beaten 3-2 in the reverse fixture but have never lost consecutive league games against the Bees before.
If the Reds score twice, they will record 150 goals in Premier League matches under Arne Slot.
Alexis Mac Allister could play the 150th game of his Liverpool career.
Mohamed Salah, with seven goals from eight appearances, has scored more in the history of this fixture than any other player. He averages a goal against Brentford every 95 minutes.
Salah could become the first player since Sadio Mane in 2020 to score the Reds' final goal of a season for the second campaign in a row.
The game is Andy Robertson's final one in a Liverpool shirt. The first goal of his career in English football came against Brentford, for Hull City in a 2-0 win at Griffin Park.
Virgil van Dijk has completed 90 minutes in 74 of Liverpool's 75 Premier League matches under Slot, including all 37 games this season. If he plays 90 minutes here, aged 34 years and 320 days, he would be the oldest outfield player ever to complete 100 per cent of possible minutes in a Premier League campaign, beating John Terry's record in 2014-15 (34 years and 168 days).
Van Dijk has been on the pitch for 4,851 minutes in all competitions this season – the most by any Liverpool outfield player in a season since Sami Hyypia (5,205) in 2005-06.
The Reds have not lost their final league game in any of the last 10 seasons (won seven, drew three) since a 6-1 defeat at Stoke City in 2014-15. When finishing a league campaign at home, they are unbeaten in 18 (won 15, drew three) since a 2-0 loss to Arsenal in 1988-89.
Brentford have won just one of their last nine Premier League matches (drew six, lost two), beating West Ham United 3-0 earlier this month.
The Bees have won their final game in just one of their four previous Premier League campaigns (drew one, lost two), beating Manchester City 1-0 in 2022-23.
Between 1936 and 1937, Brentford were unbeaten in their first three away league contests against Liverpool (won one, drew two). Since then, they have lost each of their last six trips to Anfield without scoring a single goal.
Igor Thiago has scored 41 per cent of Brentford's Premier League goals this season (22/54) – currently the highest share by a player in a single campaign since Harry Kane in 2022-23 (43 per cent for Tottenham Hotspur – 30/70).
Keith Andrews, who succeeded Thomas Frank as the Bees' head coach last summer, faced Liverpool five times as a player, scoring once, in a 2-1 defeat for Blackburn Rovers in February 2010.
Brentford are on course for their highest finish in the Premier League. This is their fifth campaign and they have finished 13th, ninth, 16th and 10th since gaining their status in 2021.