Liverpool have lost just two of their last 15 Premier League matches against Chelsea (W6 D7), although one of those was at Anfield in March 2021.
The two league games between Liverpool and Chelsea last season were both drawn; this fixture has never been drawn in three consecutive league meetings.
The home team has won just three of the last 17 Premier League games between Liverpool and Chelsea (D7 L7), though two of those have come at Anfield (2-0 in April 2019, 5-3 in July 2020).
Liverpool have lost both of their league games in 2023 so far, going down 3-1 at Brentford and 3-0 at Brighton. They've not lost their first three league matches in a calendar year since 1953.
Chelsea have won just two of their last 10 Premier League games (D3 L5), though they did beat Crystal Palace 1-0 last time out. Away from home, the Blues are winless in five Premier League games (D2 L3), their longest run since September to December 2015 (7).
Liverpool have conceded at least once in each of their last eight Premier League games, last doing so in nine in a row between May and October 2016. They've shipped three goals in each of their last two league games, last shipping 3+ in three in a row in the top-flight in December 1953.
This will be Jürgen Klopp's 1 000th game as a manager (270 with Mainz 05, 319 with Borussia Dortmund and 411 with Liverpool), 21 years and 327 days after his first (Mainz 1-0 Duisburg on 28th February 2001). He's won just six of his 19 meetings with Chelsea (D9 L4), his lowest win rate (32 per cent) against any English side he's faced 10+ times.
Kai Havertz scored in this exact fixture last season in the Premier League – the last Chelsea player to score in consecutive away league appearances versus Liverpool was Joe Cole in 2005.
Excluding own goals, 10 of Liverpool's last 11 goals at Anfield in all competitions have been scored by either Darwin Núñez or Mohamed Salah (5 each). Between them, the pair had scored just one of the Reds' first 16 home goals this term (excl. own goals).
Mykhailo Mudryk could become the ninth player from Ukraine to play in the Premier League, and the second to do so for Chelsea after Andriy Shevchenko. No Ukrainian has ever scored on their Premier League debut.