MatchPre-Leeds stats: Cody Gakpo aiming for goal feat last achieved by Ian Rush
Cody Gakpo could record a rare goal feat for Liverpool in Thursday's Premier League clash with Leeds United.
The Dutchman has scored in the Reds' first top-flight match of each of the last two years, against Newcastle United and Manchester United.
Netting versus Leeds at Anfield on New Year's Day would make him the first Liverpool man to extend that run to three years in a row since Ian Rush did so in 1985, 1986 and 1987.
Read on for more facts and figures to know about the 5.30pm GMT kick-off...
Liverpool have won five of their last six Premier League games on New Year's Day (one draw), with their last defeat coming at home to Chelsea in 2005.
Meanwhile, they have not lost their first game of the year when it has been at Anfield on any of the last nine occasions (six wins, three draws).
The Reds have scored 19 goals in their last five Premier League matches against Leeds.
Liverpool have lost just one of their last 13 Premier League meetings with Leeds (eight wins, four draws), with that defeat coming in October 2022 at Anfield.
Leeds are unbeaten in their last 10 league matches played in January (six wins, four draws).
No team has scored more goals in the opening 15 minutes in the Premier League this term than Leeds (five).
Curtis Jones ranks second in the whole division for both average number of passes (83) and touches (98) per 90 minutes.
Nobody has scored more headed goals in the Premier League so far this season than Leeds' Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who has three.
Virgil van Dijk is the only Liverpool player to have featured for every minute of the top-flight campaign to date.
A clean sheet would see Alisson Becker become only the fifth Liverpool goalkeeper in history to total 100 clean sheets in the league, after Ray Clemence, Bruce Grobbelaar, Pepe Reina and Elisha Scott.
Sixteen players in history have scored a goal for the Reds on all seven days of the week. Hugo Ekitike will join that list if he finds the net in this match.
Liverpool have not conceded a first-half goal in any of their last seven games.
The clubs have met twice before on New Year's Day. The Reds won 3-0 at home in 1991 with goals from John Barnes, Ronny Rosenthal and Rush. Previously, in 1972 Leeds claimed a 2-0 victory at Anfield.