On this evening, an intriguing 10th round match will take place in the English Premier League.
The leaders of the national championship, Liverpool football players, will host the Tottenham team in their fortress. At the beginning of the summer, these teams fought in the most important club tournament final - the UEFA Champions League.
Recently, Tottenham players have been in a huge slump, but in the last matches, which took place in the Champions League tournament mentioned above, they enjoyed a victory against opponents from Belgrade - winning 5-0.
Also, in the middle of this week, Liverpool celebrated an easy victory, but in the last Premier League round, the "Reds" lost points for the first time this season - a draw with Manchester United.
In case of failure, their advantage over Manchester City would decrease to three points. Tottenham, having suffered two losses in their last five league matches, as well as celebrating a victory and playing once in a draw, currently holds the 10th position.
The start of the match - 18:30. Here are the most important facts of the duel:
In their last 15 matches in all competitions against Liverpool, Tottenham have won only once - 10 losses and 4 draws. This victory was achieved in 2017 by beating their opponents 4-1.
In the last three matches against Tottenham, Liverpool emerged victorious, including the UEFA Champions League final. The "Reds" scored two goals in each match.
If Liverpool wins, they will become the third team in the English Premier League to have won 28 points after the first ten rounds. Previously, two teams achieved this - Chelsea (2005-06) and Manchester City (2011-12 and 2017-18).
If the "Reds" fail to prove their superiority against Tottenham, this will be only the second time this year that Liverpool has not won two matches in a row against opponents.
Jurgen Klopp's team at Anfield stadium demonstrates a record streak - 11 consecutive wins. Including draws, Liverpool has not lost at home in 44 matches in a row.
All last seven Liverpool goals in the Premier League were scored by different authors - Adam Lallana, Sadio Mane, James Milner, Georginio Wijnaldum, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Roberto Firmino, and Mohamed Salah.
Mohamed Salah has faced Tottenham eight times and scored six goals - four representing Liverpool and one each for Roma and Basel.
In the last 12 league matches, Tottenham have won only three times and kept a clean sheet only once.
After the first nine rounds in the Premier League, Tottenham have only 12 points, which is their worst start to the season since Mauricio Pochettino took charge.
Last season, Tottenham won 11 out of the first 13 away matches in the Premier League, but now they have not won one in the last 10 matches - 8 losses and 2 draws.
Harry Kane has scored five goals and provided two assists in nine league matches against Liverpool. However, last season he failed to score in both matches against them.
