The opening weekend of the 2024-25 Premier League season is right here. Try the perfect information, stats and Opta knowledge from Saturday’s recreation at Portman Highway with our Ipswich vs Liverpool stats web page.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all of the Ipswich vs Liverpool stats from their Premier League conflict at Portman Highway.
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Ipswich vs Liverpool: Pre-Match Details
- Ipswich City’s most up-to-date Premier League recreation was in Could 2002 in opposition to Liverpool at Anfield, shedding 5-0 as they have been relegated. Since then, the 2 sides have solely confronted as soon as, a 1-1 draw within the League Cup in December 2002 earlier than the Tractor Boys misplaced 5-4 on penalties.
- Liverpool have by no means misplaced a Premier League match at Portman Highway in opposition to Ipswich (P5 W3 D2), with their final go to a 6-0 win in February 2002. They’ve performed extra video games there with out shedding than another floor within the Premier League.
- Ipswich are unbeaten of their opening league match of the season in every of the final 10 seasons (W6 D4) since shedding 2-1 to Studying within the Championship in 2013-14.
- For the fifth time within the final six seasons, Liverpool start their Premier League season with a match in opposition to a newly promoted aspect (W3 D1 beforehand). They’re unbeaten on Matchday 1 of their final 11 seasons (W8 D3) since shedding 3-0 to West Brom in 2012-13 in Brendan Rodgers’ first recreation in cost.
- Between December and February of their final Premier League marketing campaign of 2001-02, Ipswich had a run of seven wins in eight video games (L1), which moved them to twelfth within the desk. Nevertheless, following that run they gained simply considered one of their final 13 matches (D3 L9), and have been in the end relegated.
- Solely Stockport County (96) and Manchester Metropolis (96) scored extra league targets than Ipswich in England’s high 4 tiers final season (92). Certainly, since Kieran McKenna took cost of the membership for the primary time in December 2021, solely Man Metropolis (239) have scored extra league targets than the Tractor Boys (222).
- McKenna would be the sixteenth supervisor whose first ever Premier League recreation in cost is available in a match in opposition to Liverpool. Simply 4 of the earlier 15 have gained (D4 L7), with Brian Clough (1992), John Gregory (1998), Paul Sturrock (2004) and Craig Shakespeare (2017) doing so.
- This can be Arne Slot’s first recreation in command of Liverpool. Solely one of many eight managers to take cost of the Reds within the Premier League have gained their first such recreation (D4 L3), with Gérard Houllier beating Southampton whereas collectively in cost with Roy Evans in August 1998. Houllier, nevertheless, misplaced his first recreation in sole cost of the membership (vs Leeds in November 1998).
- This would be the first time two managers are taking cost of their first ever Premier League match in a recreation in opposition to one another since David Wagner’s Huddersfield beat Frank De Boer’s Crystal Palace 3-0 in August 2017.
- No participant in Premier League historical past has scored extra targets on MD1 than Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah (8, degree with Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard, and Wayne Rooney), whereas solely Rooney (13 – 8 targets, 5 assists) has extra aim involvements on the opening matchday within the competitors than the Egyptian (12 – 8 targets, 4 assists).
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