Liverpool vs Sunderland team news and line-ups LIVE: Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana miss out while Ben Woodburn named on bench
England striker misses clash with thigh knock whilst Moyes is undergoing something of an injury crisis at the Stadium of Light
LIVERPOOL will have to manage without Adam Lallana for the second straight game after the England midfielder failed to train this week, while Daniel Sturridge is also out.
Jurgen Klopp's high-fliers are heavy favourites against struggling Sunderland who are undergoing an injury crisis themselves.
Sebastian Larsson and Jan Kirchhoff are out and join Lee Cattermole and Paddy McNair on the sidelines, giving David Moyes a headache.
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Revitalised after back-to-back Premier League wins, a Sunderland win would give them three in-a-row for the first time since 2014.
A Liverpool win would take them two points clear at the top and they've been near-on unstoppable at home this season.
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- Liverpool have never lost a Premier League match against Sunderland at Anfield (W7 D8). Indeed, the Reds are unbeaten in their last 18 home games in all competitions against the Black Cats (W9 D9).
- Sunderland have won just two of their last 20 games against Liverpool (D5 L13) – 1-0 in October 2009 and 1-0 in March 2012.
- James Milner has scored five Premier League goals against Sunderland; against no other PL side has he netted more (also Hull City).
- Indeed, Milner has netted against Sunderland with four different Premier League teams (Aston Villa, Newcastle, Leeds, and Manchester City); only Emile Heskey (5) has scored against Sunderland with more sides.
- Daniel Sturridge has been directly involved in five goals in his last three Premier League appearances against Sunderland (three goals, two assists).
- Jurgen Klopp hasn’t named an unchanged Premier League starting lineup since his second game in charge, going 40 games without keeping the same starting XI.
- Sunderland are looking to win three successive Premier League matches for the first time since May 2014 (four in a row).
- The Black Cats have scored their last 21 successive penalties in the Premier League (the longest such run of all current teams in the competition) and haven’t failed from the spot in the league since December 2011.
- Victor Anichebe has scored three goals in his last two Premier League appearances – he has never scored in three successive PL apps, despite playing 190 times in the competition.
- Jermain Defoe has been involved in 21 of Sunderland’s 41 Premier League goals in 2016 so far (51% - 18 goals, 3 assists).
- No two players have combined to create more goalscoring chances for one another in the Premier League this season than Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho have (16).
