Liverpool Football Club Facts 2010-2011

A total of 37 players, from 15 nations, represented Liverpool Football Club this season.

Jamie Carragher
He is now the player with the second-highest number of appearances for Liverpool.

Dirk Kuyt
1.He became the first Liverpool player to score on his first ten penalty kicks for the club since John Aldridge - and that was in 1987.
2.He was the first Liverpool player to score a hat trick against Manchester United since Peter Beardsley in 1990.


Maxi Rodríguez
1.He became the first foreign midfielder to score 10 league goals in his first full season at the club - Mølby did so in his second season
2.He also became the first South American player to score more than once in a competitive match for Liverpool.
3He became the first midfielder to score two hat tricks in a Premier League season for the club.
4.He  became the first non-European player to score a hat trick for the club (Gordon Hodgson played for England, and as for Benayoun, Israel are UEFA members).
5.Maxi became the first non-European player to reach 10 league goals in the same season, eclipsing Craig Johnston and Harry Kewell, who had scored 7 apiece at their best.
 6.Maxi was the first player to score a hat trick on away soil in a competitive fixture since Fernando Torres against Reading in the 2007-08 League Cup, and in the league since Michael Owen against WBA in 2003.

Luis Suárez
1.He scored his first league goal after just 16 minutes, tying Abel Xavier's club Premiership record.
  
Raul Meireles
His winning goal against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge marked just the third league goal for Liverpool on that ground since January 2004. Remarkably, all three Liverpool goals have been deciders in famous away 1-0 victories.
In the six PL fixtures Raul Meireles did not start we scored a mere two goals in them, recording a miserable five points.

Andy Carroll
He was the first player to score both for and against Liverpool in one season, since Dean Saunders in 1992-93.

Joe Cole
1.His stoppage-time winner against Bolton was our first of the sort at Anfield since Steven Gerrard in Middlesbrough in 2008. In the 2008-09, four matches were won in stoppage time.

Glen Johnson became the first right back to score against the same club in both Premier League fixtures, ironically his boyhood club West Ham United.

Roy Hodgson became the first Liverpool manager to win his five first European matches #FACT (astonishingly he beat Rabotnicki, Trabzonspor and Steaua.)
Liverpool had not scored five goals away from home in a competitive fixture since at Luton Town (5-3 in the 2006 FA Cup), before the 5-2 win at Fulham.


Fernando Torres
1.He ended up on 65 league goals for the club, more than any non-British Isles player, having moved past Mølby back in 2009. He is now chased by Dirk Kuyt, the Dutch hitman being just one goal away from 50.
Fernando Torres has scored 7 goals in 8 fixtures against Chelsea, but just once in 18 matches with them.