Mohamed Salah moved level with Wayne Rooney at Manchester United (183 goals, 93 assists) for goals and assists combined for a single Premier League club with his goal for Liverpool against Aston Villa (188 goals, 88 assists).
Salah has nine goals and six assists versus City in the competition – the most goal involvements against them in Premier League history.
The Egyptian has either scored (nine) or assisted (six) 15 of the Reds’ last 20 Premier League goals against City.
Since joining Liverpool, he only has more goal contributions in all competitions against Manchester United (22) than he does against Manchester City (21 – 13 goals, eight assists). He has either scored (four) or assisted (three) on each of his last six visits to Etihad Stadium.
This will be the sixth time in the Guardiola era that the teams have met in the Premier League immediately before an international break, with City failing to win any of the five such meetings so far (drawn four, lost one).
Across his entire managerial career, against no side has Guardiola suffered more defeats than against Liverpool (10 – level with Tottenham Hotspur), while only against Real Madrid (39) has he seen his sides concede more goals than against the Reds (38).
Slot’s men have failed to score in only one of their last 52 league games – the 1-0 home defeat by Nottingham Forest in September 2024.
Only Virgil van Dijk and Dominik Szoboszlai have played every minute of Liverpool’s league campaign this season.
Alexis Mac Allister last scored in successive Liverpool games in March 2024, against Sparta Prague and Manchester City.
Not since Andy Carroll in April 2011 has a Reds player scored more than once in a league game against City. The last man to do so away from home was Fernando Torres in a 3-2 league victory in October 2008.
