DID YOU KNOW?
* In 115 meetings in all competitions with Birmingham, Liverpool have won 56, lost 30 and drawn 29.
* Kenny Dalglish's 24-point tally in 13 league games as Liverpool's interim manager is just one point less than the total accrued under predecessor Roy Hodgson from 20 games.
* Liverpool sit sixth in the league table and would be in the same position if games finished at half-time.
* The average age of the full-backs (John Flanagan and Jack Robinson) that finished Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Arsenal last weekend was just 17.5.
* Dirk Kuyt has scored six goals in Liverpool's last five league games.
* Birmingham have not scored more than two goals in any Premier League game since December 2009 v Wigan Athletic.
* Birmingham are the second lowest scoring team in the league this season with just 34 goals from 32 games.
* Birmingham have the joint-eighth highest number of clean sheets in the league this season with nine recorded.
* Birmingham's current 38-point tally would have saved them from relegation in the past four seasons.
* Birmingham have not tasted defeat at Anfield since the 3-1 loss on November 30, 2003.
LAST MEETING
September 12, 2010: Birmingham City 0-0 Liverpool
A dour stalemate at St Andrew's saw Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina save dangerous headers from Cameron Jerome and Craig Gardner.
PROBABLE LINE-UPS
Liverpool: Reina; Flanagan, Skrtel, Carragher, Robinson; Lucas, Spearing; Maxi, Meireles; Suarez; Kuyt.
Birmingham City: Foster; Carr, Johnson, Ridgewell, Parnaby; Larsson, Gardner, Ferguson, Hleb, Fahey; Jerome.
Prediction
Liverpool have beaten the best and sunk against the lower lights in Dalgish's reign. Expect the trend to be bucked as the limp Birmingham attack should not expose Liverpool's depleted defence.
Liverpool 1-0 Birmingham 
