Martin Tyler's Stats And Facts: Liverpool v Manchester United Special

Are Manchester United the Anfield specialists? Is this the dirtiest Premier League fixture? Who runs more? Martin Tyler knows...

The Sky Sports commentator answers your stats-related questions ahead of Red Monday, Liverpool v Manchester United live on Sky Sports 1 on Monday evening.

United top of the Kop?

Has any team won at Anfield in the Premier League as many times as Manchester United? Pete, Salford

MARTIN SAYS: United's 2-1 win in March 1993 was their first of 12 Premier League victories at Anfield, the most recent was a 1-0 win last January, which is indeed the most of any Premier League side by some distance.

Victories at Anfield have generally been difficult to come by in the top flight, and United's 12 wins tower over Arsenal, Aston Villa and Chelsea's six victories. Southampton, Leeds and Leicester are all next with just three each. 

A win for United would also equal their longest winning run in the Premier League against their rivals, having registered five in a row between January 2006 and March 2008. Liverpool's longest winning run stands at four, between December 2000 and January 2002.

Young guns

If Marcus Rashford scores, will he be the youngest scorer in this fixture in Premier League history? Gavin, London

MARTIN SAYS: Rashford will be 18 years and 350 days old on Red Monday, and will beat his team-mate Wayne Rooney (19 years 83 days in January 2005) if he nets as the youngest United player to score in this fixture in the Premier League.

But at 18 years and 118 days, Michael Owen is still the youngest from either side to score in this fixture in the Premier League, netting the equaliser in a 1-1 draw in April 1998 at Old Trafford.

Anthony Martial is the only other player under 20 years old to score a Premier League goal in this fixture; he was 19 years and 282 days when he netted a fine solo goal in the 3-1 win at Old Trafford last September.

Late show?

United are synonymous with stoppage-time winners, but how many have they scored in the Premier League compared with Liverpool? Stacey, Manchester

MARTIN SAYS: Steve Bruce against Sheffield Wednesday, Federico Macheda against Aston Villa, Michael Owen against Manchester City; United fans love a stoppage-time winner.

But while they've enjoyed 18 in the Premier League - including John O'Shea's last-gasp strike at Anfield in 2007 - Liverpool have experienced the most.

No less than 28 injury-time winners have been scored by Liverpool since the Premier League began, followed by Arsenal (23), Chelsea (20) and Everton (19).

Remember Stan Collymore v Newcastle in 1996? Neil Mellor v Arsenal in 2004? Adam Lallana against Norwich last season? How they'd love to make that 29 on Red Monday.

Only two of United's 18 stoppage-time winners have come since Sir Alex Ferguson retired - Troy Deeney's own goal in November 2015 and Marcus Rashford's strike against Hull in August.

The running men

Which team has run further this season?  Liverpool or Man Utd? Sam, Southport

MARTIN SAYS: According to our friends at Opta, Liverpool have run 11km more than any other Premier League side in the opening seven games, totalling 814.8km (that's 506.3miles in old money).

At the other end of the table are United, who have ran 6km less than any other Premier League side, 735.6km in total (457 miles).

Manchester City (803.9km) are second in the table, followed by Tottenham (803.4km) and Burnley (793.9km). Everton (743.1km) and Crystal Palace (741.9km) accompany United in the bottom three of the running table.

Liverpool have also made the most sprints in the Premier League this term with 4,165, again with Manchester City (4,014) and Tottenham (3,755) for company, while United sit higher than their distance statistics suggest, in eighth with 3,524 sprints.

Klopp's side are top of the passing charts, too, making a total of 4,220 compared with United's 3,623.

Cards on the cards?

Is Liverpool v Manchester United the fixture with the most yellow and red cards in Premier League history? Paul

MARTIN SAYS: The referee has been at the centre of some of the most famous incidents in this rivalry's history, but surprisingly this is not the dirtiest fixture in Premier League history.

The clash has seen 16 red cards, four of those going to former United centre-half Nemanja Vidic. Vidic shares the crime sheet with Steven Gerrard, sent off after just 38 seconds having come on as a half-time substitute in 2015, as well as Dennis Irwin, who kicked the ball away before receiving a second yellow from David Elleray in 1999.

Jonjo Shelvey had a few words for Sir Alex Ferguson as he left the pitch having been sent off in September 2012, and Javier Mascherano was given a bizarre red in March 2008 for questioning referee Steve Bennett's decision to book Fernando Torres, but far in the lead in most Premier League red cards is the Merseyside derby, with 21 dismissals.

The fixture is also ninth in Premier League history for yellow cards (167), with Chelsea v United topping that chart with 213 bookings.

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