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Both sides trying to ease into the game in difficult conditions. Alisson is out well as he passes his first test of the night to punch away.

The referee gets us started at the Stadium of Light! Can Sunderland maintain their unbeaten record, or will Liverpool make up ground in the race for Europe?

Both teams are out of the tunnel at the Stadium of Light, so we’ll be underway soon!

An interesting fact for this evening’s game:

And Arne Slot had the following to say ahead of kick-off:

“I think we know what we have to do, 13 games to be played and we have to win a lot of them to get to the position where we want to be,” he explained.

“We also know that yesterday maybe results weren’t too bad for us, but that can change every week and we have to focus on ourselves and just make sure we get as many points as we can, and [that] our results reflect our performances,” he adds as he finishes.

“We have to take it really quickly because today is another big game and big fight,” says Liverpool ‘keeper Alisson ahead of kick-off.

“Sunderland are doing amazing, mainly at home this season. Today, we know that we need to work hard to get the three points,” he adds.

Sunderland have scored just 19 goals in 33 Premier League meetings with Liverpool (0.6 per game).

However, Sunderland have won three of their last five Premier League home games against the reigning champions (L2), including the last two against Chelsea (May 2016) and Leicester City (December 2016).

Meanwhile, though Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 19 Premier League games against promoted sides (W14 D5), they’ve drawn each of the last four.

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You could immediately see the frustration, and it was more than just Liverpool struggling to break through. As Slot’s side suddenly had to chase, and were looking to find any kind of opening around the City box, a good interchange of passes put Ryan Gravenberch on the ball just outside the area. The midfielder clearly wanted to move it out to the obvious space on the right… but there was no one there.

Mohamed Salah maybe would have been, but he was already in that morass of players in the box. Szoboszlai maybe should have been, given that he was the notional right-back, but he had already drifted inside to a more natural central position at this crucial moment.

The away team have arrived at a stormy Stadium of Light…