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Arne Slot highlighted Liverpool’s pair of 2-1 wins over Wolves in 2024/25 to try to avoid complacency from his players against doomed opponents at Anfield on Saturday.

The Reds should comfortably beat the visitors with 16 points from safety and without a win from their opening 17 league matches of the season.

“Regardless of where they stand now, we expect the kind of test we faced against them last season,” Slot said, calling those encounters “very difficult.”

“This is exactly how Premier League This is what makes it so important to be on the right side of small margins. Lately we have been able to do this more often than in previous weeks.

While Liverpool are unbeaten in six matches in all competitions and have won their last three, Wolves suffered their 11th consecutive defeat with a 2-0 home defeat to Brentford last Saturday.

“We don’t have the time or energy to feel sorry for ourselves,” defenseman Matt Doherty said. The wolf sitecalling on the team to “produce a little magic” alongside vastly improved defensive resolve.

“We just have to wake up to train every day, chest up, head held high and work as hard as we can. Right now there are 19 other teams snatching the Premier League from us.

“We have to fight back, even if the end result is the same. There are ways to go about it, and I prefer to do it a certain way – not the way we’re doing it right now.”

Liverpool vs Wolves team news

Defender Joe Gomez is absent Liverpool but Slot gave Conor Bradley and Cody Gakpo half a chance to feature.

The full-back departed at half-time in the 2-1 win at Tottenham last time out, while the striker missed three matches with a muscle injury.

Striker Alexander Isak broke his leg during this match. Wataru Endo is injured and his compatriot Dominik Szoboszlai is suspended for five warnings.

Defender Giovanni Leoni is suffering from a long-term knee injury and striker Mohamed Salah is playing in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with Egypt.

Centre-back Yerson Mosquera is also banned from Wolves for accumulating yellow cards, but wide player Hugo Bueno could return from a groin injury.

Goalkeeper Daniel Bentley (ankle), defender Toti Gomes and midfielder Jean-Ricner Bellegarde (both hamstring) are absent.

Winger Rodrigo Gomes (groin) and midfielder Marshall Munetsi (calf) are also out, while Leon Chiwome has a serious knee injury and central defender Emmanuel Agbadou is playing in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with Ivory Coast.

Expected Liverpool vs Wolves line-ups

Liverpool starting XI: Alisson Becker, Milos Kerkez, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, Andy Robertson, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Curtis Jones, Florian Wirtz, Conor Bradley, Hugo Ekitike

Wolves starting XI: Jose, Sa, Matt Doherty, Santiago Bueno, Ladislav Krejci, Ki-Jana Hoever, Fer Lopez, Andre, Joao Gomes, David Moller Wolfe, Jorgen Strand Larsen, Hwang Hee-Chan

How to watch Liverpool vs Wolves: TV channel, live stream online

Kick-off on Saturday will be at 3:00 p.m. GMT (10:00 a.m. ET / 7:00 a.m. PT). This match is not shown live in the UK.

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• Liverpool have won 16 of their last 17 Premier League games against Wolves, apart from a 3-0 defeat at Molineux in February 2023.
• The Reds have won 17 of their last 20 Premier League matches between Christmas and New Year (D2 L1), including the last five in a row.
• Their only defeat in this series came against Leicester in December 2021. At Anfield, they lost one of their last 32 games between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve (W25 D6), against Wolves in December 2010.
• Hugo Ekitike has scored in each of his last three league appearances (5 goals) and could become the first Liverpool player other than Mo Salah to score in four consecutive Premier League outings since Sadio Mané in February 2019.
• Only Aston Villa (7) are currently on a longer unbeaten run in the Premier League than Liverpool (5 – 3 wins, 2 draws), with the Reds securing back-to-back league victories for the first time since winning their opening five matches of the campaign.
• Wolves have lost eight consecutive Premier League away games against Liverpool since a 1-0 victory in December 2010.
• In their top-flight history, only at Man City (10 between 1900 and 1937) and Liverpool (11 between 1970 and 1982) have Wolves suffered longer defeats on the road.
• They have lost 24 of their last 27 away league matches against the reigning top-flight champions, apart from wins at Everton in April 1971 (2-1), Liverpool in January 1984 (1-0) and Manchester City in October 2019 (2-0).
• Rob Edwards’ Wolves side have two points this season and could become only the second team in English Football League history to record so few points from 18 matches in a Championship campaign, after Newport County finished fourth in 1970/71.
• The only top team to go 18 games without a win in a season was Bolton Wanderers in 1902/03 (top 22).