Naby Keita's 100th appearance and nine more pre-Brighton stats

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Naby Keita could make his 100th appearance for Liverpool at Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday lunchtime.

Breaking down the midfielder's previous 99 outings for the club, 67 have come in the Premier League, 19 in the Champions League, seven in the Carabao Cup, with a pair of showings in each of the Emirates FA Cup, Community Shield and FIFA Club World Cup.

Read on for more facts and figures ahead of the 12.30pm GMT kick-off with Graham Potter's side...

Liverpool are two goals away from recording their 2,000th in the Premier League era, with only Manchester United (2,172) scoring more.

Should a player score his first league goal of the season, this team will set a new club record of 18 different league scorers in a single campaign, surpassing the 17 in 1911-12.

Kenny Dalglish, with six, has scored more goals against Brighton than any other Liverpool player. Mohamed Salah could equal that – he has five, the same number as Ian Rush.

Salah is one goal away from becoming only the third man to score 50 away goals for the club in the Premier League era. Michael Owen scored 55 and Steven Gerrard 51.

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Diogo Jota has scored three goals in his last four appearances against Brighton – all at the Amex Stadium.

The Reds could record an eighth successive league win for the first time since February 2020.

Jürgen Klopp's men have not conceded more than once in any of the last 15 games.

Liverpool are 20 points better off than they were after 27 games of last season, while they have scored 24 goals more and conceded 16 fewer.

This is the Reds' third 12.30pm kick-off this season. They beat Burnley 2-0 at Anfield in August and won 5-0 at Watford in October.

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