The champions-elect cross paths with the relegation favourites in Saturday’s Premier League showdown at Anfield, where Liverpool seek to subject Southampton to even more top-flight misery.
Arne Slot‘s men come into the weekend with an unassailable 13-point advantage over Arsenal at the summit of the table and will temporarily increase their lead to 16 with a win before the Gunners square up to Manchester United in Sunday’s main event.
While the Reds are 13 points clear in first place, Ivan Juric’s side coincidentally have a 13-point gap to make up to 17th place and remain at risk of setting the Premier League’s worst-ever points total.
This weekend’s visitors were slain 4-0 by Chelsea in their last match, and that scoreline would not have looked out of place in Liverpool’s clash with Paris Saint-Germain in midweek, but the Reds somehow prevailed 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash.
Ahead of Saturday’s fixture, Sports Mole looks at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between Southampton and Liverpool.
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Head-to-head record
Previous meetings: 121
Southampton wins: 31
Draws: 26
Liverpool wins: 64
Between 1902 and 1926, the first seven meetings between Southampton and Liverpool took place exclusively in the FA Cup, but the two clubs have since built up a healthy page of head-to-head history in the Premier League and First Division.
From 121 previous battles in all tournaments, the Reds have come up trumps on 64 occasions, while Southampton have prevailed 31 times, and another 26 contests have seen both sides shake hands on a point apiece.
The more recent showdowns in the 21st century have almost always seen the Merseyside giants come out on the correct end of the scoreline, though, as Liverpool have won 13 of their last 15 battles with Southampton in all tournaments, drawing one and losing one in that sequence.
The only aberrations for Liverpool in that streak were a 1-0 loss in January 2021 during their dismal winter period, and an engrossing 4-4 draw at St Mary’s on the final weekend of the 2022-23 campaign; they prevailed 3-2 at the same venue in a November 2024 thriller, one month before also edging out their managerless opponents 2-1 in the EFL Cup quarter-finals.
Liverpool and Southampton did cross paths on one occasion in the 2023-24 campaign, as Jurgen Klopp masterminded a 3-0 FA Cup fifth-round victory with an incredibly young squad, as Lewis Koumas opened the scoring before a Jayden Danns brace.
That comfortable win marked a seventh home victory on the bounce for Liverpool against Southampton, who last avoided defeat at Anfield in a 0-0 draw in May 2017, a few months after their last success on the Reds’ turf in that season’s EFL Cup semi-finals.
With a staggering 13 goals against Southampton, Liverpool legend Ian Rush is comfortably the highest-scoring player in matches between the Reds and the Saints, while Mohamed Salah‘s brace in November 2024 moved him onto nine strikes in this head-to-head.
Last 20 meetings
Dec 18, 2024: Southampton 1-2 Liverpool (League Cup Quarter-Finals)
Nov 24, 2024: Southampton 2-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
Feb 28, 2024: Liverpool 3-0 Southampton (FA Cup Fifth Round)
May 28, 2023: Southampton 4-4 Liverpool (Premier League)
Nov 12, 2022: Liverpool 3-1 Southampton (Premier League)
May 17, 2022: Southampton 1-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Nov 27, 2021: Liverpool 4-0 Southampton (Premier League)
May 08, 2021: Liverpool 2-0 Southampton (Premier League)
Jan 04, 2021: Southampton 1-0 Liverpool (Premier League)
Feb 01, 2020: Liverpool 4-0 Southampton (Premier League)
Aug 17, 2019: Southampton 1-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Apr 05, 2019: Southampton 1-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
Sep 22, 2018: Liverpool 3-0 Southampton (Premier League)
Feb 11, 2018: Southampton 0-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Nov 18, 2017: Liverpool 3-0 Southampton (Premier League)
May 07, 2017: Liverpool 0-0 Southampton (Premier League)
Jan 25, 2017: Liverpool 0-1 Southampton (League Cup Semi-Finals)
Jan 11, 2017: Southampton 1-0 Liverpool (League Cup Semi-Finals)
Nov 19, 2016: Southampton 0-0 Liverpool (Premier League)
Mar 20, 2016: Southampton 3-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Last 10 Premier League meetings
Nov 24, 2024: Southampton 2-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
May 28, 2023: Southampton 4-4 Liverpool (Premier League)
Nov 12, 2022: Liverpool 3-1 Southampton (Premier League)
May 17, 2022: Southampton 1-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Nov 27, 2021: Liverpool 4-0 Southampton (Premier League)
May 08, 2021: Liverpool 2-0 Southampton (Premier League)
Jan 04, 2021: Southampton 1-0 Liverpool (Premier League)
Feb 01, 2020: Liverpool 4-0 Southampton (Premier League)
Aug 17, 2019: Southampton 1-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Apr 05, 2019: Southampton 1-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
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