Champions LeagueThe opposition lowdown: Qarabag
Season so far
Gurban Gurbanov's team make the journey to Merseyside on the back of just a third league defeat of their campaign, beaten 2-0 at home by Kapaz on Saturday.
Domestic champions in each of the four previous seasons, they sit second in the division with 36 points from their 17 matches overall.
On the Champions League front, meanwhile, they enter matchday eight sitting 18th in the league-phase table.
They increased their points tally to 10 with a 3-2 victory from an extremely dramatic game at home to Eintracht Frankfurt last time out.
Having fallen 2-1 behind on 78 minutes, they quickly equalised and then Bahlul Mustafazade scored a 94th-minute winner.
In Europe this term, the Atlılar (the Horsemen) have also won away at Benfica, beaten Copenhagen at home and drawn 2-2 with Chelsea in Baku.
Key players
Cape Verdean winger Leandro Andrade is Qarabag's top scorer so far in 2025-26, scoring nine goals in 29 appearances - including three in the Champions League league phase.
Fellow attacker Camilo Duran has provided four goals in the tournament, grabbing a brace in the win against Frankfurt.
Gurbanov has been able to select the same back five - consisting of goalkeeper Mateusz Kochalski and defenders Matheus Silva, Mustafazade, Kevin Medina and Elvin Jafarguliyev - to start all seven of the club's Champions League league-phase games so far.
Team news
Qarabag made 11 changes to their starting line-up for the loss to Kapaz last weekend.
Attacking midfielder Kady Borges, who had been sidelined since November, returned to their squad for that game.
Medina and Silva would be suspended for their next Champions League outing if they pick up a yellow card at Anfield.
What they said
Qarabag head coach Gurbanov
"We will face a team with a very magnificent stadium, with magnificent fans and a unique game. The players who have always been in this team have always been willing.
"We really want to show a good game here, to fight well. I believe in my players. I believe that they will try to show their best game. We will try to show a good, disciplined game until the end."
Pre-match stats
Qarabag are winless in their previous eight UEFA competition meetings with English opposition (drawn one, lost seven) and have been beaten on all four of their visits to England.
They have scored two or more goals in eight of their last 10 games in Europe.
Qarabag have failed to score in only one European fixture this season – a 2-0 loss at Napoli on matchday five.
They have made the longest journey of any team to visit Anfield for a game against Liverpool – a trip of some 2,583 miles.