Pepe targets Reds milestone

Pepe Reina will move into fourth place in the all-time list of most clean sheets for Liverpool if he can manage a shut out against Wigan tonight.

The Spanish custodian will overtake Tommy Lawrence if he can manage to thwart the Latics and claim a 135^th clean sheet in all competitions.

Here are all the rest of the big match stats. 

Head to head (league only):
Overall: Liverpool 7 wins, Wigan 1 win, 2 draws.
At Wigan: Liverpool 3 wins, Wigan 1 win, 1 draw.

Liverpool were beaten 1-0 at Wigan last season. Hugo Rodallega's 35^th minute goal gave the Latics their first league win over the Reds at the 10^th attempt.

That is the only occasion in the short history of league meetings that Liverpool have failed to score.

The Reds' last victory over Wigan came in the earlier fixture last season at Anfield. David Ngog gave Liverpool an early lead and substitute Fernando Torres doubled the advantage on his 100^th appearance for the club. Charles N'Zogbia scored an injury time consolation.

Liverpool's biggest league win over Wigan came on this ground in December 2006 when they won 4-0 with all the goals coming in the first half. Dirk Kuyt was amongst the scorers that day.

Kuyt has scored more goals for Liverpool against Wigan than any other player - he has five.

Only one player had scored a hat-trick for Liverpool against Wigan. Steve Staunton in a League Cup tie in 1989 became the first substitute in Liverpool's history to score three goals in a game - a feat only equalled by Steven Gerrard last week.

The Reds have not kept a clean sheet in any of the last five league meetings.

Liverpool have won the first league meeting of the season in all five of the previous campaigns.

Fernando Torres has now scored 60 goals for the Reds in 90 league games. He has scored three in his last three appearances in the Premier League but has not scored away from home since finding the net at Old Trafford last March.

Pepe Reina's next clean sheet will take him above Tommy Lawrence into fourth place in the all-time Reds goalkeepers list. It would be his 134^th shut-out in all competitions. 

He currently has 98 league clean sheets - again level with Lawrence in fourth place.

The Reds go into this game on a five-match unbeaten run since losing at Everton. They have won the last four in all competitions, and last went six unbeaten in September 2009, winning them all.

Liverpool are looking to keep a third successive league clean sheet following shut-outs against Bolton and Chelsea.

Last season was the first time that Wigan have ever led at home against Liverpool.

Hugo Rodallega made his Wigan debut as a substitute in this fixture in January 2009.

Wigan have scored just two goals at home against Liverpool in the Premier League - Mido in 2008-09, and Rodallega last season.

The Latics have picked up five points out of 30 in their league history against the Reds. Prior to last season the points came in 1-1 draws at Anfield in January 2008 and at Wigan in January 2009.

They had to wait until their 35^th attempt to record a win over any of the so-called 'big four' when defeating Chelsea 3-1 at the DW Stadium last season. Then they beat both Liverpool and Arsenal!

Wigan conceded 79 goals last season with only relegated Burnley (82) conceding more.

They scored only 19 at home. Only Wolves with 13 scored less.

This will be Wigan's seventh home game of the campaign. They have won once - beating Wolves 2-0 last month. Three times they have suffered defeat - to Manchester City (2-0) following home thrashings - by Blackpool (4-0) and Chelsea (6-0) - in their opening 180 minutes of the season.

Their other league win this season came at White Hart Lane when they avenged last season's 9-1 defeat by Spurs with a 1-0 victory.

In both victories Hugo Rodallega found the net.

After a run of six games unbeaten in league and cup the Latics have lost their last two - both in the league, beaten 2-0 at Fulham and 2-1 at Blackburn last Saturday.

They have scored just eight goals this season - the lowest tally in the top flight.

Wigan's tally of four home goals is the lowest in the Premier League. They have also conceded the most at home - 14.  

Of the 15 goals they have scored in all competitions seven have been scored in the final 10 minutes.

Half of their 10 points this season have been earned away from home.

Last season, Athletic finished 16^th in the league - their best is 10^th which came in the debut season in the top-flight in 2005-06.

Roberto Martinez was appointed as manager in June 2009 and is Wigan's first overseas boss. This will be his 50^th league game in charge. He has won 11 and lost 25 with 13 draws. 

Later this month Wigan travel to the Emirates to face Arsenal in the Quarter- Final of the Carling Cup.

Scorers this season (league in brackets):

Liverpool: Gerrard 7 (3), Ngog 7 (1), Torres 4 (4), Kuyt 2 (1), Kyrgiakos 2 (2), Babel 1 (0), Cole 1 (0), Jovanovic 1 (0), Lucas 1 (0), Maxi 1 (1), own goals 1 (0).

Wigan: N'Zogbia 4 (3), Rodallega 3 (3), Gomez 3 (1), Alcaraz 1 (1), Boselli 1 (0), Moses 1 (0), Watson 1 (0), own goals 1 (0).