Curtis Jones ranks second in the whole division for both average number of passes (83) and touches (98) per 90 minutes.
Nobody has scored more headed goals in the Premier League so far this season than Leeds’ Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who has three.
Virgil van Dijk is the only Liverpool player to have featured for every minute of the top-flight campaign to date.
A clean sheet would see Alisson Becker become only the fifth Liverpool goalkeeper in history to total 100 clean sheets in the league, after Ray Clemence, Bruce Grobbelaar, Pepe Reina and Elisha Scott.
Sixteen players in history have scored a goal for the Reds on all seven days of the week. Hugo Ekitike will join that list if he finds the net in this match.
Liverpool have not conceded a first-half goal in any of their last seven games.
The clubs have met twice before on New Year’s Day. The Reds won 3-0 at home in 1991 with goals from John Barnes, Ronny Rosenthal and Rush. Previously, in 1972 Leeds claimed a 2-0 victory at Anfield.
