The opening weekend of the 2024-25 Premier League season is here. Check out the best facts, stats and Opta data from Saturday’s game at Portman Road with our Ipswich vs Liverpool stats page.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Ipswich vs Liverpool stats from their Premier League clash at Portman Road.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Ipswich vs Liverpool: Pre-Match Facts
- Ipswich Town’s most recent Premier League game was in May 2002 against Liverpool at Anfield, losing 5-0 as they were relegated. Since then, the two sides have only faced once, a 1-1 draw in the League Cup in December 2002 before the Tractor Boys lost 5-4 on penalties.
- Liverpool have never lost a Premier League match at Portman Road against Ipswich (P5 W3 D2), with their last visit a 6-0 win in February 2002. They’ve played more games there without losing than any other ground in the Premier League.
- Ipswich are unbeaten in their opening league match of the season in each of the last 10 seasons (W6 D4) since losing 2-1 to Reading in the Championship in 2013-14.
- For the fifth time in the last six seasons, Liverpool begin their Premier League season with a match against a newly promoted side (W3 D1 previously). They are unbeaten on Matchday 1 in their last 11 seasons (W8 D3) since losing 3-0 to West Brom in 2012-13 in Brendan Rodgers’ first game in charge.
- Between December and February in their last Premier League campaign of 2001-02, Ipswich had a run of seven wins in eight games (L1), which moved them to 12th in the table. However, following that run they won just one of their last 13 matches (D3 L9), and were ultimately relegated.
- Only Stockport County (96) and Manchester City (96) scored more league goals than Ipswich in England’s top four tiers last season (92). Indeed, since Kieran McKenna took charge of the club for the first time in December 2021, only Man City (239) have scored more league goals than the Tractor Boys (222).
- McKenna will be the 16th manager whose first ever Premier League game in charge comes in a match against Liverpool. Just four of the previous 15 have won (D4 L7), with Brian Clough (1992), John Gregory (1998), Paul Sturrock (2004) and Craig Shakespeare (2017) doing so.
- This will be Arne Slot’s first game in charge of Liverpool. Only one of the eight managers to take charge of the Reds in the Premier League have won their first such game (D4 L3), with Gérard Houllier beating Southampton while jointly in charge with Roy Evans in August 1998. Houllier, however, lost his first game in sole charge of the club (vs Leeds in November 1998).
- This will be the first time two managers are taking charge of their first ever Premier League match in a game against each other since David Wagner’s Huddersfield beat Frank De Boer’s Crystal Palace 3-0 in August 2017.
- No player in Premier League history has scored more goals on MD1 than Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah (8, level with Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard, and Wayne Rooney), while only Rooney (13 – 8 goals, 5 assists) has more goal involvements on the opening matchday in the competition than the Egyptian (12 – 8 goals, 4 assists).
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