Brighton bring the league's best attack to an Anfield where Iraola has yet to win
Liverpool have taken two points from three league games at home this season. Brighton have scored 23 in seven and kept five clean sheets, and this is the first of five away matches in a row for them.
Andoni Iraola is still waiting for his first league win at Anfield. Liverpool's three home league matches this season have brought a 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest, a goalless one with Fulham and a 3-0 defeat by Manchester City. Elsewhere they have scored freely, beating Villarreal 4-3 on Tuesday and LASK 6-3 the week before.
Liverpool hold a slight advantage in an open game of three goals or more, with both sides scoring.
Brighton arrive third with the best attack in the league, 23 goals in seven matches, and five clean sheets as well. Before Thursday's goalless draw in Jablonec they had won four league games in a row by a combined 15-0, Arsenal among the beaten. The BBC counts seven earlier sides that scored 23 or more in their first seven matches; all but one finished in the top three.
The squads tell another story. Liverpool are without Dominik Szoboszlai, Jeremie Frimpong, Conor Bradley, Giovanni Leoni, Hugo Ekitiké and Vitezslav Jaros, and Victor Muñoz is unlikely to recover in time; Bradley Barcola is fit. Brighton are without Kaoru Mitoma and Evan Ferguson among others, and will check Pascal Struijk's hamstring on the day.
Anfield has been kinder to Liverpool in this fixture than the season has: they have won the last four home meetings with Brighton. Fabian Hürzeler, recently past his 100th match in charge and linked with Manchester United, says he is focused on Brighton.
