Season so far
Gurban Gurbanov's team make the journey to Merseyside on the back of just a third league defeat of their campaign, beaten 2-0 at home by Kapaz on Saturday.
Domestic champions in each of the four previous seasons, they sit second in the division with 36 points from their 17 matches overall.
On the Champions League front, meanwhile, they enter matchday eight sitting 18th in the league-phase table.
They increased their points tally to 10 with a 3-2 victory from an extremely dramatic game at home to Eintracht Frankfurt last time out.
Having fallen 2-1 behind on 78 minutes, they quickly equalised and then Bahlul Mustafazade scored a 94th-minute winner.
In Europe this term, the Atlılar (the Horsemen) have also won away at Benfica, beaten Copenhagen at home and drawn 2-2 with Chelsea in Baku.