Hull City VS Liverpool
Saturday (04/02/2017)
15:00 (WAT)
Saturday (04/02/2017)
15:00 (WAT)
TEAM NEWS
Winger Kamil Grosicki and on-loan Villarreal midfielder Alfred N'Diaye could both make their Hull debuts.
Striker Dieumerci Mbokani is available after returning from the Africa Cup of Nations, but Lazar Markovic is ineligible against his parent club.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has a near fully-fit squad to choose from ahead of the trip to Hull.
Forward Sadio Mane could make his first start since 2 January after returning as a substitute against Chelsea.\
WHAT THE MANAGERS SAY
Hull head coach Marco Silva: "Liverpool are a great team with a great coach. To take points, we will need to maintain our performance levels.
"We need to show the same attitude and spirit that we showed against Manchester United. We need to fight and play better than them.
"The players are starting to understand what I want. It is important I give confidence to the squad."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on Silva: "I am impressed, what can I say? They've had a lot of different line-ups and systems in the last few games and it's interesting to watch.
"They've played Manchester United now three times; the power and strength of United, that's not too easy but they did really well and that's without confidence because they don't always get [good] results so Silva is obviously a good manager."
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- Hull have won the previous two home meetings and are unbeaten in three (D1).
- The Reds have only won two of the last six clashes between these sides (D2, L2).
- However, Liverpool did beat the Tigers 5-1 at Anfield earlier this season.
Hull City
- Hull have earned four points in their three Premier League games under Marco Silva, one more than they did in their final nine games under Mike Phelan.
- The Tigers are the only side yet to keep a clean sheet at home in the Premier League this season, conceding in all 11 games.
- They could keep consecutive Premier League clean sheets for the first time since April 2015.
- Hull have conceded an unrivalled 21 Premier League goals from set pieces this season.
Liverpool
- Liverpool have won just one of their last nine matches in all competitions (D4, L4).
- They could remain winless in their opening five top-flight matches of a calendar year for the first time since 1954, when they did not win any of their first 10.
- Liverpool's three league defeats this season have all come against teams currently 10th or lower in the table: Burnley, Bournemouth and Swansea City.
- The Reds have attempted more shots on target (143) and scored more goals (52) than any other Premier League team this season.
- James Milner has scored five goals in his last six league games against Hull.
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