Jamie Carragher is set to make his 650th appearance for Liverpool against West Ham and go level with Phil Neal on the club's all-time appearances list.
Here are the latest facts and figures ahead of our clash against the Hammers with LFC statto Ged Rea.
Head to head: (League only)
At Anfield: Liverpool 36 wins, West Ham 3 wins, 14 draws.
Overall: Liverpool 56 wins, West Ham 21 wins, 29 draws.
Last season here Liverpool won 3-0 with Yossi Benayoun and David Ngog scoring in the opening half hour with Rob Green conceding an own goal on 59 minutes.
It enabled the Reds to claim a league 'double' over the men from Upton Park having won 3-0 in London with Fernando Torres (2) and Dirk Kuyt scoring.
Paul Konchesky made 70 appearances for West Ham (59 in league) scoring twice, including one in the 2006 FA Cup Final against the Reds, though Pepe Reina saved his spot-kick in the shoot-out.
Liverpool have kept 13 clean sheets in the last 16 league meetings on this ground.
The Reds have recorded four league 'doubles' over West Ham in the last six seasons.
In the last 45 league meetings home and away the Reds have lost just five.
The Reds are unbeaten in the last 38 home league games against West Ham at Anfield. In that time they have won 28 and drawn 10, conceding just 15 goals.
Joe Cole played for the Hammers on 149 occasions scoring 13 times between 1998-2003.
Of the Reds contingent of ex-Hammers Glen Johnson made fewest appearances - 16 in total.
Jamie Carragher made the first of his league appearances against the Hammers at Anfield in January 1997 as a substitute. This will be his 650th game for the Reds and put him level in 5th place with Phil Neal on the club all-time appearances list.
Dirk Kuyt made his Liverpool debut against West Ham on this ground in August 2006 and today could make his 150th league appearance.
Fernando Torres now has 44 goals in his 47 league games at Anfield with three coming in his last two home outings.
He has scored five times against today's opponents in the league (in four games) - the most he has hit against any one team along with Portsmouth, Blackburn and Chelsea. He netted a hat-trick against the Hammers here in 2008.
Liverpool's biggest home win over West Ham in the League was a 6-0 success in April 1984. Ian Rush and Graeme Souness each scored twice with the others coming from Kenny Dalglish and Ronnie Whelan.
Pepe Reina's next clean sheet will take him above Tommy Lawrence into 4th place in the all-time Reds goalkeepers list. It would be his 134th shut-out in all competitions.
He currently has 98 league clean sheets - again level with Lawrence in 4th place.
Martin Skrtel scored his only Liverpool goal so far a year ago this weekend - against Manchester City at Anfield.
The Hammers have not won in the league since beating Tottenham 1-0 in late September.
They have picked up five points from a last possible 21 with five draws and two defeats.
They are unbeaten in the last three games with draws against Birmingham (away), West Brom and Blackpool at Upton Park.
West Ham finished last season in 17th place - five points above the drop zone.
The Hammers last win at Anfield came in September 1963 with Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters scoring in a 2-1 win.
West Ham have won just one of the last 16 league meetings between the clubs home and away. That came courtesy of Mark Noble's injury time penalty winner at Upton Park in January 2008.
Today's visitors have won two of their last 30 away league games - the last coming at Wolves on the opening day of last season.
Since that victory at Molineux they have picked up just nine points out of a possible 72.
This season they have drawn at Stoke, Wolves and Birmingham, while suffered losses at Aston Villa, Manchester United and Arsenal.
Avram Grant is the Hammers' 13th manager and he is managing his third different Barclays Premier League clubs - Chelsea and Portsmouth the others.
West Ham appointed just five managers in their first 89 years. Since 1989 eight men have been in the hot seat.
West Ham have scored only six goals in the last 26 visits to Anfield.
They have scored more than once in a league game here on only one occasion in the last 26 visits. (Frank Lampard and Marc Keller scored in a 2-2 draw in 1999).
West Ham's biggest League win at Anfield came in February 1928 when they won 3-1.
Vic Watson, with four, is the only West Ham player to score a hat-trick against Liverpool doing so in September 1930 in a 7-0 win.
Referee Lee Probert has taken charge of Liverpool twice before with the Reds winning both games 1-0. They came against Aston Villa last December and West Brom earlier this season with Fernando Torres scoring both goals.
Scorers this season: (League in brackets):
Liverpool: Gerrard 7 (3), Ngog 7 (1), Torres 5 (5), Kuyt 2 (1), Kyrgiakos 2 (2), Babel 1 (0), Cole 1 (0), Jovanovic 1 (0), Lucas 1 (0), Maxi 1 (1), own goals 1 (0).
West Ham: Parker 5 (3), Piquionne 5 (4), Noble 2 (2), Obinna 2 (0), Behrami 1 (1), Cole 1 (1), Da Costa 1 (0).
Author: Ged Rea
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19th Nov 2010 10:00