The home side has never lost a Premier League meeting between Brentford and Liverpool (W4 D1), with the Bees winning this exact fixture 3-1 last season.

Liverpool have both scored and conceded in all seven of their away league games against Brentford. They lost 3-1 last season but have never lost consecutive such visits to the Bees before.

Brentford have lost four of their last six home Premier League matches, as many as they had in their previous 30 such home games combined (W15 D11 L4).

Liverpool have 15 more points at this stage of their Premier League season (54) than they had after 24 games last season (39). On three of the last four occasions in the top-flight they’ve had 54+ points after 24 games, they have finished 2nd (1990-91, 2018-19 & 2021-22); the other was in 2019-20, when they had 70 and won the league.

Brentford have lost their last two home Premier League matches after scoring the first goal (1-2 vs Aston Villa, 1-3 vs Man City); they had only lost one of their first 25 home games when scoring first in the competition beforehand (W17 D7).

Liverpool have won just two of their last eight away Premier League games in London (D3 L3) – indeed, both of their league defeats this season have come in the capital (vs Spurs in September and Arsenal in February).

As of the night before this game (February 16th), Liverpool will have spent every night since Boxing Day on top of the Premier League (53 nights in a row); that’s exactly as many nights as they’d spent top of the table from the start of the 2020-21 campaign up to Christmas 2023.

Since Ivan Toney’s first Premier League appearance this season on January 20th, only three players have more goals in the division than he does (3 in 4 games) Liverpool are, however, one of the four teams he has faced without scoring against in the competition (3 games, 7 shots, 1 shot on target).

Brentford’s Neal Maupay has been directly involved in exactly one goal in each of his six home Premier League starts for Brentford (4 goals, 2 assists). In Premier League history, only two players have scored or assisted in their first seven home starts for a club: Alan Shearer for Newcastle (first 15, 1996-97) and Álvaro Negredo for Man City (first 7, 2013).

Liverpool’s Diogo Jota has scored nine Premier League goals this season, and is looking to hit double figures in a single campaign for just a second time in the competition (15 in 2021-22). The Portuguese forward has scored five goals in his last six league matches, and scored in his only previous appearance at the Brentford Community Stadium in the top-flight (September 2021).