Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel could both notch up a century of league appearances for Liverpool if they feature in Saturday's trip to West Brom.
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The Reds have drawn the last two league games (Manchester United and Norwich). The last time they shared the spoils in three successive matches was in January 2009 while the last trio of consecutive 1-1 league draws for Liverpool came in December 1988.
At West Brom: Liverpool 23 wins, West Brom 20 wins, 16 draws.
Overall: Liverpool 56 wins, West Brom 29 wins, 33 draws.
Last season Albion won this fixture 2-1. After Martin Skrtel had opened the scoring after 50 minutes the hosts hit back to win the game courtesy of two Chris Brunt penalties on 62 and 89.
Brunt's goals were the first scored by West Brom against Liverpool in the Premier League in the 10th clash. The Reds in those meetings have hit the net 26 times.
Liverpool had shaded the earlier meeting at Anfield thanks to a single Fernando Torres goal.
The Reds have an excellent record at the Hawthorns, winning eight of the last nine fixtures scoring 26 and conceding four. 23 have those goals have come in the last seven visits.
In the Barclays Premier League the clubs have met 10 times with Liverpool winning nine and losing one.
Liverpool has lost only two of the last 16 visits.
The last time these sides played out a goalless draw in the West Midlands was in November 1968.
The 6-0 victory on this ground in April 2003 is Liverpool's biggest ever league win over Albion.
Michael Owen's four-goal haul in April 2003 is the last hat-trick scored by a Liverpool player against the Baggies. John Wark in a 5-0 win in March 1985 is the only other to achieve the feat for the Reds on this ground.
Prior to last season's Hawthorns clash the Reds had kept 9 successive clean sheets against West Brom in the league since 1986.
Andy Carroll scored twice for Newcastle on this ground two seasons ago - but Newcastle lost the FA Cup tie 4-2.
Liverpool go into this game on the back of an unbeaten six game run in all competitions, which along with Tottenham is the longest currently of any top-flight team.
Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel could both make their 100th Premier League appearance if selected.
A win for Liverpool will see them reach 1,300 Premier League points.
If they score three goals they will reach 50 in the league since Kenny returned as manager in January (this is his 28th league game).
Albion's win here last season ended a run of 12 successive league defeats home and away. In those 12 games they had scored two goals and conceded 36.
It was their first home win over Liverpool in 10 games since a 2-0 win in February 1981 and is their only success in the last 20 meetings at the Hawthorns and Anfield.
The Baggies are looking to record back-to-back home league wins over Liverpool for the first time since November 1966.
The Baggies finished last season with their best Premier League finish (11th) - this after being 17th when Roy Hodgson took over in February.
Roy Hodgson was in charge of Liverpool for 191 days - a reign which took in 31 games of which the Reds won 13. In the Premier League he presided over seven wins in his 20 games.
His first league victory as Reds boss came against his current employers at Anfield in August 2010.
From taking over with a dozen games of last season remaining Albion lost only twice under Hodgson - to Chelsea and Wolves.
They avoided relegation from the Premier League for only the second time.
His record as West Brom manager in the league currently stands at eight wins and six defeats from his 21 games.
Last season Albion set an unwanted Premier League record of going 34 games without keeping a clean sheet. The sequence ended with a 1-0 home win over Everton in their penultimate game.
Already this season they have kept more (three) than they did in the whole of last season.
They have beaten Liverpool only twice in the last 33 league meetings and in that time they have scored only 13 goals.
The only League hat-tricks scored by West Brom against Liverpool came in 1936 and 1938 and were scored by the same man - W.G.Richardson.
James Morrison was sent off at Anfield last season Somen Tchoyi made his Baggies debut in that game.
Last season Chris Brunt became only the third player to score 2 penalties in a Premier League game against the Reds. The others were Matt Le Tissier (Southampton) in February 1994 and Ruud van Nistelrooy at Old Trafford in April 2003.
Albion have scored only two of their last six penalties. Peter Odemwingie and Chris Brunt have each taken three and scored only one of them. Brunt missed a spot-kick at Villa Park last week.
In that game Hodgson's men came from behind to win 2-1 with goals from Jonas Olsson and Paul Scharner. It was their first league win at Villa Park since 1979.
The four games at the Hawthorns this season have produced only six goals with Albion scoring three. They have beaten Wolves, drawn with Fulham and lost to Manchester United and Stoke.
After scoring just three times in the opening six league games they have netted twice in each of the last three fixtures, taking seven points in the process.
Albion are unbeaten in the last four games since going out of the League Cup at Everton last month.
They have 11 points from their opening nine games so far - four points fewer than at the same stage last season.
The Baggies are looking a third successive home league clean sheet in the top-flight for the first time since December 2005.
West Brom along with QPR, Doncaster and Aldershot (all with three) have scored fewer league goals at home this season than any other team in England.
Of Albion's nine league goals this season five have been scored in the opening eight minutes of games.
This will be Albion's 100th Premier League game at the Hawthorns. They have won 30, drawn 25 and lost 44.
Current league positions:
Liverpool: Pld 9 Won 4 Drawn 3 Lost 2 Goals For 12 Against 10 Points 15 Position: 6th
West Brom: Pld 9 Won 3 Drawn 2 Lost 4 Goals For 9 Against 11 Points 11 Position: 12th
Leading scorers this season (league in brackets):
Liverpool: Suarez 7 (4), Bellamy 2 (1), Carroll 2 (1), Adam 1 (1), Gerrard 1 (1), Henderson 1 (1), Kuyt 1 (0), Maxi 1 (0), Skrtel 1 (1), own goals 2 (2).
West Brom: Long 3 (3), Brunt 2 (1), Fortune 2 (0), Odemwingie 2 (2), Cox 1 (0), Morrison 1 (1), Olsson 1 (1), Scharner 1 (1), Thomas 1 (0).
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