Alisson is expected to start for Liverpool against Bournemouth on Friday, making his 300th Reds appearance in the process.
Arne Slot‘s champions host the Cherries on Friday evening, getting the 2025/26 Premier League season up and running.
Liverpool go into the new campaign as title favourites, narrowly ahead of Arsenal and Man City, but Bournemouth will provide a stern opening test.
Alison will reach his triple century of Reds matches if he features at Anfield, becoming the seventh Reds goalkeeper to reach the landmark and the first since Pepe Reina.
Meanwhile, Joe Gomez will make it 150 Liverpool appearances if he plays, while Wataru Endo could make his 50th league outing.
Salah to break penalty record after recent misses?
LONDON, ENGLAND - Sunday, August 10, 2025: Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah during the FA Community Shield match between Crystal Palace FC and Liverpool FC at Wembley Stadium. Palace won 3-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw. (Photo by Harry Murphy/Propaganda)
Mohamed Salah has missed his last two penalties for Liverpool, but if he scores from the spot against Bournemouth, he will become their record penalty scorer in league history.
It would be his 35th spot-kick for the Reds in total, overtaking Billy Liddell‘s tally of 34.
Salah needs three goals in all competitions at Anfield to move into fourth place on the club’s all-time list, alongside Liddell on 137.
Elsewhere, should Curtis Jones, Cody Gakpo or Dominik Szoboszlai score, they will join 15 other players in Liverpool history to have scored on all seven days of the week.
The last player to do so was Virgil van Dijk last season.
Liverpool aim to continue dominance over Bournemouth
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Saturday, August 19, 2023: Liverpool's Mohamed Salah (L) gets past Bournemouth's Milos Kerkez during the FA Premier League match between Liverpool FC and AFC Bournemouth at Anfield. Liverpool won 3-1. (Pic by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
The last four league meetings with Bournemouth have seen Liverpool win all four by an aggregate score of 12-1.
The Reds have won 10 and drawn the other out of the last 11 Anfield encounters in league and cup, and they have won 19 of the previous 24 encounters in all competitions, suffering two losses.
Liverpool’s biggest win against Bournemouth was a 9-0 thrashing at Anfield in August 2022, with Scott Parker sacked three days later.
The Reds have scored in 15 of the 16 league encounters and kept 10 clean sheets, including nine in the last 12 clashes.
More opening weekend joy for Reds?
IPSWICH, ENGLAND - Saturday, August 17, 2024: Liverpool's Diogo Jota celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the FA Premier League match between Ipswich Town FC and Liverpool FC at Portman Road. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
Liverpool are undefeated on the opening day in the last 12 seasons – nine wins and three draws – since a 3-0 defeat at West Brom in the first game under Brendan Rodgers.
The Reds have scored at least twice in eight of the last nine opening day outings.
Since joining Liverpool, Salah has scored in seven of Liverpool’s eight opening fixtures, only missing out two seasons ago at Chelsea.
His tally of nine goals in the first game is a Premier League record, scored in just 700 minutes of football.
This will be the first time that Liverpool have begun a league campaign at Anfield since 2020, when Salah scored a hat-trick in the 4-3 win over Leeds.
Bournemouth in search of historic victory
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Saturday, September 21, 2024: Liverpool's head coach Arne Slot (L) shakes hands with AFC Bournemouth's manager Andoni Iraola after the FA Premier League match between Liverpool FC and AFC Bournemouth at Anfield. Liverpool won 3-0. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
Bournemouth‘s two victories over Liverpool in all meetings both came at home – a 4-3 win in December 2016 after trailing 3-1 and a 1-0 victory in March 2023, with Philip Billing scoring the only goal.
The latter is the only time they have kept a league clean sheet against the current Premier League champions.
Bournemouth have gained one point from their eight league trips to Anfield – since the 2-2 draw in April 2017, they have scored three times in 12 league meetings, while conceding 40.
They have not scored more than once in any of the last 13 meetings with Liverpool in league and cup, and have lost 12 of the last 13 clashes with the Reds in all competitions.
No Bournemouth player has ever scored more than once in any game against them.
* Stats courtesy of LFC statistician Ged Rea (@ged0407).