Crystal Palace and Arsenal kicked off the new Premier League season on Friday night, with the Gunners running out 2-0 winners at Selhurst Park.
The season gets fully under way on Saturday, with six top-flight fixtures taking place, starting with Fulham v Liverpool.
Here is everything you need to know about the match, including how to watch...
What time is Fulham v Liverpool?
Fulham v Liverpool kicks off at 12.30pm at Craven Cottage.
Is Fulham v Liverpool on TV? What about streaming?
The game is being shown live on BT Sport 1 and BT Sport Ultimate. Coverage starts at 11.30am.
Customers can stream the match via the BT Sport app.
What’s the latest team news?
The hosts are set to be without Nathaniel Chalobah and Wales star Harry Wilson for the contest. Wilson is set for around eight weeks on the sidelines.
New signings Bernd Leno and Shane Duffy could make their bows.
Jurgen Klopp looks set to be able to call on keeper Alisson Becker for the trip to west London, but the German boss will be sweating on the fitness of Naby Keita, who faces a late fitness test.
Ibrahima Konate, Curtis Jones, Kostas Tsimikas, Diogo Jota, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Caoimhin Kelleher remain out.
What have the managers said?
Marco Silva: "I think it's the best way to start. The main thing for us is to play at home, be back in the Premier League with our fans with us.
"To play against one of the best teams in the world, one of the best teams in the Premier League, I think is a fantastic way to do it.
"Big respect to them, but we have to trust in ourselves and do our maximum to enjoy the challenge, and let's see the result."
Jurgen Klopp : "Ali [is] fine... Naby is ill, but I think he will be back today the first day.
"I underestimated it a little bit when I said he will definitely be fine. He came in yesterday and still showed some little symptoms, no COVID but it is not right. I guess he will be back today."
Latest odds
Fulham - 9/1
Draw - 19/4
Liverpool - 2/7
Odds courtesy of bet365 and correct at time of publication
Match facts
- Fulham were unbeaten across both Premier League games against Liverpool in 2020-21, drawing 1-1 at home and winning 1-0 at Anfield. Despite suffering relegation that season, the Cottagers’ four points against the Reds was their joint-most against an opponent (also four v Sheffield United and West Brom).
- Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp lost his first Premier League meeting with Marco Silva in February 2017, with his side losing 0-2 away at Hull. Since then, Klopp is unbeaten in his last four against the Portuguese in the competition (W2 D2), with the most recent being a 5-2 win against Silva’s Everton.
- On the five previous occasions Fulham have been newly promoted to the English top-flight, they have lost their first league match of the season, doing so in 1949-50, 1959-60, 2001-02, 2018-19 and 2020-21.
- Liverpool have won their first Premier League match in each of the last four seasons, the longest ongoing run in the top-flight, scoring at least three goals in every victory (15 goals in total).
- Fulham are winless in their last 10 Premier League games (D2 L8), with their last top-flight victory coming against Liverpool in March 2021.
- Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 19 Premier League games (W16 D3) since a 1-0 loss at Leicester in December 2021. The Reds have won their last three despite conceding the opening goal within the opening 15 minutes each time – only Arsenal (March 2012) have ever won four consecutive Premier League games from behind.
- In their last Premier League season in 2020-21, Fulham became the first side to fail to reach double figures for goals in home league games in English league history (9 in 19 games). They’ve failed to score more than once in any of their last 14 Premier League home games, netting just four goals in total in that run.
- This will be Fulham boss Marco Silva’s first Premier League game in 976 days, a 5-2 defeat with Everton against Liverpool in December 2019. There have been just three occasions of a manager having a longer gap between Premier League games with both of them coming against the same side – Kevin Keegan (2054 days between 1997 and 2002, vs Leeds), Alan Pardew (1308 days between 2007 and 2010, vs Liverpool) and Keegan again (1048 days between 2005 and 2008, vs Bolton).
- Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic has scored 24 goals in 104 Premier League games, netting once on average every 286 minutes in the competition. This is a stark contrast to his Championship record, where the Serbian has scored 85 goals in 126 games, netting once on average every 117 minutes.
- Mohamed Salah has scored in Liverpool’s opening Premier League game in each of his five seasons with the club, with the Egyptian the only player in the competition’s history to score on MD1 five years in a row. Indeed, he has seven such goals in total, with only three players netting more (Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney, 8 each).
