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Full league history - Spurs v Liverpool:-

Premier     Pl   W   D   L   For-Ag  Pts
Home        33  13   8  12   47 -52  47
Away        33   2   9  22   34 -73  15
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Total(Prem) 66  15  17  34   81 -125 62  0.94 Pt per game
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Football Lge
Home(Div 1) 49  24  10  15   71 -58  62
Away(Div 1) 49   4  14  31   38 -95  24
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Total(Div 1)98  28  24  46  109 -153 86
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Total(Prem) 66  15  17  34   81 -125 62
Total(Div 1)98  28  24  46  109 -153 86
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Grand Total 164 43  41  80  190 -276 148
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Last Six Premier League results:-

Spurs       -     DLLDWL
           
Spurs     2-2    Man Utd
Arsenal   4-1    Spurs
Spurs     1-2    Fulham
Newcastle 2-2    Spurs
Spurs     2-0    Brentford
Nottm Fst 3-0    Spurs

Liverpool   -     LLWDDW

Man City  3-0    Liverpool
Liverpool 0-3    Nottm Fst
West Ham  0-2    Liverpool
Liverpool 1-1    S'derland
Leeds     3-3    Liverpool
Liverpool 2-0    Brighton

Pos            P  W  D  L   F-A   GD  Pts
 7. Liverpool 16  8  2  6  26-24   2   26
11. Spurs     16  6  4  6  25-21   4   22

Will it be five at the back, or five in the net Spurs?

Father Christmas visited the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium two years ago

It's impossible to feel any optimism regarding this final game before Christmas against a team which scored no less than 15 goals across four meetings with Spurs last season. In Declan Mulcahy's words we were "demolished by (the) Slot machine" 6-3 in last year's home game, also played on the weekend before Christmas.

Somehow we managed a 1-0 home leg win in the League Cup semi-final, but then suffered a 4-0 pasting at Anfield in the return match. Liverpool lost the final to Newcastle, who won their first domestic trophy for 70 years.

Liverpool secured their second Premier League title by beating Spurs 5-1 in last season's away game in April.

Mo Salah scored four of Liverpool's fifteen goals against us last season and has scored 16 goals against Tottenham in all competitions, equalling his record against Manchester United. Salah, who has been subject of endless media coverage recently regarding his Liverpool future has now left for the African Cup of Nations, so perhaps, by leaving Salah out of a couple of games, Arne Slot was just preparing for life without their past talisman in his enforced absence.

Spurs will be missing Pape Sarr, due to ACON. Yves Bissouma has been selected for Mali, but of course we haven't seen him this season.

Twelve of Salah's 16 goals against Spurs were in the Premier League, with only Alan Shearer (14) scoring more against Spurs in the competition. Salah's very first goal against Spurs was for Basel in the Europa League in April 2013. He next scored against us in the same competition two years later for Fiorentina.

Mohamed Salah's goal on the final day of last season against Crystal Palace saw him reach 47 Premier League goal involvements in 2024-25. This equalled the all-time seasonal record, matching Andrew Cole for Newcastle in 1993-94 and Alan Shearer for Blackburn Rovers in 1994-95. Cole and Shearer achieved the feat in 42-game seasons.

This season, Salah moved into fourth place in the all-time Premier League goal-scorers' list and he currently has 188 goals, two of which were with Chelsea in 2014.

The world of football, and beyond was shocked when news broke on 3rd July of the sudden death of Diogo Jota, who died with his brother Andre Silva in a tragic car crash in Spain. Jota had only married the mother of their three young children in June.

Jota won the FA Cup and Premier League with Liverpool and two Nations League Finals with Portugal.

Spurs first encountered Jota when playing for Wolves. He scored in a 3-2 win at Tottenham in March 2020. Later that year Jota was signed for Liverpool by Jurgen Klopp. Jota scored two more goals against Spurs, including a dramatic 94th minute winner in a 4-3 at Anfield in April 2023. Jota played in last season's 5-1 win which secured Liverpool's second Premier League title.

Liverpool have officially retired the squad number 20 in honour of Jota. In September, Arne Slot confirmed the club's owners would pay the final two years of Diogo Jota's contract to his family.

Jota is a much-missed player, but of course the biggest tragedy was for his family.

Liverpool played in their 25th Charity/Community Shield game in August, but lost in a penalty shoot-out against first-timers Crystal Palace. This was despite Arne Slot starting four of his big summer signings.

Arne Slot became the sixth manager to win the Premier League in his first season, after:-

Jose Mourinho - Chelsea, 2004-05
Carlo Ancelotti - Chelsea, 2009-10
Manuel Pellegrini - Manchester City, 2013-14
Claudio Ranieri - Leicester City, 2015-16
Antonio Conte - Chelsea, 2016-17

When they lost 2-1 at Stamford Bridge in early October, Liverpool lost three successive games (in all competitions) for the first time since March 2023. Their victors this season were Crystal Place and Galatasary before Chelsea. Having started the season with five successive Premier League wins, Arne Slot's side surrendered their first place to Arsenal.

When Liverpool lost 2-1 at home to their nemesis Manchester United on 19th October, they lost four consecutive games (in all competitions) for the first time since October/November 2014. One of those defeats was in the Champions League (away to Real Madrid). The other three were league games when their victors were Newcastle, Chelsea and Crystal Palace. Palace and Chelsea were two of Liverpool's conquerors in this latest run. Liverpool's manager in 2014 was Brendan Rogers.

Liverpool ended this run with a 5-1 thrashing of Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany when Hugo Ekitike scored against his old team. Had "The Reds" lost that game, it would have been a first run of five consecutive defeats since 1953. Spurs were Liverpool's final conquerors in that run with goals by Sonny Walters and Alf Ramsey. Liverpool were relegated in that 53/54 season, returning (and staying) in 1962. Since their promotion, Liverpool have never finished lower than eighth in the top flight. Their eighth place finishes were in their first season, and then 3 times in the Premier League in 1993/94, 2011/12, and 2015/16.

After that win against Eintracht Frankfurt Liverpool lost their next Premier League game at Brentford, making a run of four consecutive Premier League defeats. They became the first-ever team to win their first five games in a season in the top division then immediately lose the next four league games.

Defeat at Brentford also meant The Reds had lost four consecutive games in the Premier League for the first time since February 2021 (four) and as many as they did in the whole of the 2024-25 season. They had also lost on five consecutive visits to London in the top division for the first time since November 1970.

Arne Slot's woes continued with a 3-0 home defeat to Palace in the Carabao Cup, making it six defeats in seven games. Last month, when they lost 3-0 at home to Sean Dyche's Nottingham Forest, Liverpool slipped into the bottom half of the table and lost two consecutive league games 3-0 for the first time in 60 years. They had also lost six of their last seven league games.

Spurs were won of the teams who beat Liverpool 3-0 in April 1965. Roy Low - in his third appearance - scored his solitary league goal. Roy made just 6 starts and two substitute appearances for Spurs and is famous for being our first substitute player to make an appearance in a league game when the rule was introduced in 1965-66.

Liverpool's unprecedented woes this season continued with a 4-1 home defeat in the Champions League to PSV, making their run 9 defeats in 12 games, their worst since the 1953-54 season. "The Reds" have currently found form and are unbeaten in their last 5 games. Hugo Ekitike has scored four times in their last three games.

We've lost 21 of our last 38 Premier League games, and have made our worse 16-game start to a season since 2008. Remember then that Harry Redknapp was dragging us back from the infamous "two points in eight games". We've just one of our last seven league games. I do not see us succeeding on Saturday (5.30pm - SKY). Those of you watching on TV will no doubt have to witness Jamie Redknapp tearing us apart. Will it be five at the back, or five in the net Spurs?

Whatever the result (and I'm afraid I predict defeat), we must remind ourselves that football is our pastime, and consider the many personal tragedies that have been experienced this year. At the moment the horror of Bondi beach is fresh in our minds.

I do sincerely wish all readers a happy and peaceful Christmas and a healthy, prosperous 2026. Thank you for reading Spurs Odyssey, which covers the last 29 seasons, but first appeared online in December 1999.

Did you know? - Uriah Rennie, who died aged just 65 in June was the Premier League's first black referee (on August 13th 1997) and last refereed Spurs in a home defeat to Liverpool in May 2008. One of his early Spurs games was also against Liverpool in March 1998, when an exciting game finished 3-3.

John Brooks is our match referee for the first time this season. This is his twelfth Spurs game and was last in the middle for us when we hosted Bournemouth last March. That match was a 2-2 draw. We won all three of Mr Brooks' previous Spurs games, at home v Brentford, away (sensationally) to Man City and 4-3 at home to Man Utd in the League Cup quarter-final.

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