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Football Data Editor for @optajoe.com. Mainly Liverpool stats. As seen on LFCTV. My Substack: https://mreidstats.substack.com/
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Despite only playing 67 times for Liverpool in all competitions, Caoimhín Kelleher has won more penalty shootouts (4) and saved more penalties in shootouts (6) than any other goalkeeper in the club's entire history. Farewell Kweev! #LFC

Caoimhín Kelleher has the highest win rate of any goalkeeper to make 50+ apps for #LFC in all comps in the club's history: C Kelleher - 65.7% Alisson - 65.4% N Doig - 64.2% B Grobbelaar - 57.6% S Westerveld - 56.3% B Slater - 55.5% R Clemence - 54.7% P Reina - 53.3%

Mohamed Salah, ladies and gentlemen. 👑🏆

Mo Salah is only the second player in Liverpool's history to finish at the club's top scorer in 8 consecutive seasons (2017-18 to 2024-25), after Roger Hunt from 1961-62 to 1968-69. #LFC

Crystal Palace are the 20th club Mo Salah has scored against this season - only the 5th time a player has scored v 20+ teams in a single season for #LFC: Roger Hunt 1964-65 (21) Kenny Dalglish 1977-78 (20) Ian Rush 1983-84 (25) Mo Salah 2017-18 (23) 🆕️Mo Salah 2024-25 (20)

Mo Salah is the first forward to start every game of a title-winning league season for #LFC since Kenny Dalglish in 1982-83.

Best mins/assist rates (10+ assists) for Liverpool in all comps since 1992-93. #LFC

Federico Chiesa is the first player to lose 6 consecutive appearances for Liverpool in all competitions since David Thompson from November to December 1998. Chiesa had won all of his first 8 games for #LFC before this, a joint-club record winning start.

Liverpool have now scored in 100% of their away games in an entire league season for the first time in the club's history. They have also scored in 21 consecutive away top-flight matches overall for the first time ever. #LFC

Mo Salah is the 28th player to reach 400 appearances for Liverpool in all competitions, and only the third non-British/Irish player - after Bruce Grobbelaar (628) and Sami Hyypiä (464). Captain tonight. #LFC

Between them, Everton, Man Utd, and Tottenham have lost 51 of their 110 Premier League games this season. That's more than Liverpool have lost in 370 league matches under Jürgen Klopp and Arne Slot combined (50).

How often do Liverpool surrender a two-goal half-time lead at Anfield? How long overdue was that Robertson assist? Answers to those questions and more in my round-up for Liverpool's draw against Arsenal - including Gakpo matching a Salah record! #LFC mreidstats.substack.com/p/arsenal-h-...

Liverpool have had seven 2-2 or 3-3 draws in the Premier League this season. It's their most 4+ goal score draws in a top-flight season since 1938-39 (also 7). #LFC

Cody Gakpo is only the second player in history to score in 10 consecutive starts at Anfield for Liverpool, after Mo Salah from December 2017 to April 2018. #LFC

This weekend will be Liverpool's sixth consecutive game played on a Sunday in all competitions (all in Premier League). It's the club's longest ever run of games (both league only and all comps) to be played on the same day of the week other than a Saturday. #LFC

This is the 4th season that both Leeds United have won the 2nd tier & Liverpool have won the top-flight, after 1963-64, 1989-90, & 2019-20. It's now the all-time English record for most times a specific club has won the 2nd tier at the same time another also won the top-flight.

What a day yesterday was! Liverpool champions again. And for the 20th title, there's 20% off all new subs to my Substack. And of course, free stats on the game that clinched #20 in my round-up of #LFC's win over Spurs on Sunday in my latest article. 🔴 mreidstats.substack.com/p/tottenham-...

Managers to win a major trophy in 1st season with #LFC: Matt McQueen (1922-23 1st Division) Joe Fagan (1983-84 League Cup, 1st Division, European Cup) Kenny Dalglish (1985-86 1st Division, FA Cup) Rafael Benítez (2004-05 Champions League) 🆕️Arne Slot (2024-25 Premier League)

Mo Salah has now scored 33 goals for Liverpool in all competitions this season - a new all-time club record by a player aged 30+ in a single campaign, overtaking Billy Liddell's 32 in 1955-56. #LFC

Liverpool had 9 Opta-defined big chances vs Leicester and didn't score any of them. It's only the second time on record (from 2010-11) that a side has had 9+ big chances in a Premier League game without scoring any, after Blackburn v Newcastle in February 2012 (also 9). #LFC

Trent Alexander-Arnold has 4 goals and 2 assists in 7 games for Liverpool at the King Power Stadium - his most goals involvements at a venue other than Anfield for #LFC.

That's Trent Alexander-Arnold's 23rd goal for Liverpool in all competitions - but the first not to be scored with his right foot. #LFC

A bumper set of stats in my round-up of Liverpool's win over West Ham today. Slot's 50 #LFC games, Salah's new Premier League record, van Dijk's Anfield goal feats, subs to score own goals, West Ham's 80% possession in the final 15 - & plenty more besides. mreidstats.substack.com/p/west-ham-h...

Liverpool have won all 14 games at Anfield that Virgil van Dijk has scored in. It's now the all-time most games any player has scored at Anfield while winning 100% in the club's history, overtaking Alec Lindsay's 13. #LFC

Mo Salah has now assisted both Luis Díaz and Cody Gakpo 5 times this season in all competitions. He's just the second #LFC player in the 21st century to assist two teammates 5+ times in a single season, after Luis Suárez in 2013-14 (6 for Sterling, 5 for Sturridge).

45 - Mohamed Salah has now been directly involved in 45 Premier League goals this term (27 goals, 18 assists); a new record for a player in a 38-game season. King.

All-time best mins/goal in #LFC history (10,000+ mins): Mo Salah - 132 Fernando Torres - 135 Luis Suárez - 138 Gordon Hodgson - 141 Michael Owen - 148 Robbie Fowler - 154 Jack Parkinson - 154 Roger Hunt - 154 Diogo Jota - 155 Sam Raybould - 156

On the idea that "defence wins you titles". In the last 15 Premier League seasons, the side with the fewest/joint-fewest goals conceded won the league 7 times - 5 of which were also the top scorers. The top scoring side has won it 11 times - only 5 of which also had the best defence.

Liverpool suffered their first defeat in 27 Premier League games on Sunday. Words and numbers behind what went wrong in the first half against Fulham, a notable record for Conor Bradley, and plenty more in my latest stats review. #LFC mreidstats.substack.com/p/fulham-a-2...

100 wins vs Everton for Liverpool. 22 winless Anfield games for David Moyes. There’s only one other club #LFC have beaten more, only one manager to visit the Reds more without winning. All that info plus plenty more in my stats round-up of the Everton win! mreidstats.substack.com/p/everton-h-...

No player in the game had more touches in the opponent's box (8), chances created (6), or dribbles completed (5) than Luis Díaz tonight. He's only the 4th #LFC player to have all those numbers in a Premier League game on record, along with Luis Suárez (x2), Raheem Sterling, and Mo Salah (x2).

At 22 years, 321 days, Ryan Gravenberch is the youngest player to start each of #LFC's first 30 matches of a league season since Robbie Fowler in 1994-95 (19y 339d), youngest midfielder since John McLaughlin in 1970-71 (19y 2d), and youngest ever non-British player to do so.

In Harvey Elliott's last 43 appearances for Liverpool, he's only started 16 of them, but has 7 goals & 12 assists - averaging a goal involvement every 97 minutes. #LFC