Nando out to extend run

Fernando Torres will be hoping to continue his recent hot-streak when Liverpool visit Stoke City this evening.

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The Spaniard has netted four goals in his last four league matches and who would bet against him maintaining his strike-rate against the Potters?

Here are the rest of all the need-to-know match stats ahead of our trip to the Britannia Stadium.

At Stoke: Liverpool 12 wins, Stoke 23 wins, 20 draws.

Overall: Liverpool  54 wins, Stoke 26 wins, 30 draws.

On this ground last season the sides drew 1-1. Sotirios Kyrgiakos scored his first Liverpool goal close to the hour mark but Robert Huth equalised in the 90^th minute for the hosts.

The last two games in the Potteries have ended as draws - last season's draw following a goalless stalemate. The last time there were three draws in succession at Stoke came in 1934-35.

In fact, three of the four Barclays Premier League meetings have ended in stalemate.

The Reds have scored only three times in the last five visits but have conceded four in those games.

The Reds biggest away league win at Stoke came in March 1982 when they won 5-1 with Terry McDermott, Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Sammy Lee and Ronnie Whelan all scoring.

That is the only time Liverpool have won a league game at Stoke by two goals or more.

Liverpool have lost only two of their last 17 league visits.

Home and away Liverpool have lost only one of the last 20. That defeat came in April 1984 when they went down 2-0 at the Victoria Ground with former Red Colin Russell scoring one of the goals.

That is the Reds only defeat at Stoke in the last 35 years.

No Liverpool player has scored a league hat-trick at Stoke. However two players have achieved the feat at Anfield. Andy McGuigan became the first to score five goals in a game for the club as the Reds won convincingly 7-0 in 1902 while Roger Hunt netted four in a 6-1 victory on Boxing Day 1963.

Glen Johnson scored his first Liverpool goal against Stoke at Anfield in August 2009.

Maxi Rodriguez made his Liverpool debut as a substitute at the Britannia Stadium last season.

Pepe Reina's next clean sheet will take him above Tommy Lawrence into 4^th 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.

Fernando Torres has four goals in his last four league games and has netted three goals in his last two.

The Reds go into this game unbeaten in the last six matches - since losing at Everton - their best run for almost a year. Should they avoid defeat today it will be their longest sequence since going unbeaten in the last eight games of the 2008-09 season.

Liverpool have lost all four league games this season in which they have conceded the first goal.

In all competitions this season Liverpool have scored eight goals in 10 away games - four each in the  league and Europe.

A win today will give the Reds 19 points - just one behind their total at the same stage of last season (13 games).

This is Stoke's third successive season in the Premier league following almost a quarter of a century away. They finished 12^th in 2008-09 and improved by one place last season.

They did finished as high as 4^th in 1935-36 and 1946-47.

Stoke's biggest home win over Liverpool came in February 1897 when they won 6-1.

City have scored just 11 goals in their last 17 home league games against Liverpool.

Last season Stoke scored only 34 goals in the league. Only Wolves (32) netted fewer. That tally of 34 comprised a league worst 10 away.

Matthew Etherington was the leading scorer last season with five. He made his Stoke debut against Liverpool at the Britannia in January 2009.

The goal scored by Robert Huth on this ground last season is the only one they have scored against the Reds in six games - a run stretching back to 1984.

This season at home they have three wins and two defeats from six home games.

They have beaten Aston Villa, Blackburn and Birmingham and have lost to Tottenham and Manchester    United with the solitary draw coming against West Ham.

They have scored only twice in the first half of their 12 league games this season and Robert Huth's 44^th minute goal in the 3-2 win over Birmingham last Tuesday ensured they led at half-time in the Premiership for the first time during this campaign.

Stoke have kept just one league clean sheet this season - against Blackburn in a home win last month.

Their win over Birmingham last Tuesday ended a run of five successive defeats in all competitions.

Jermaine Pennant scored three goals in 81 games for Liverpool from 2006-08. In his first season with the Reds he played 52 times - more than any other player.

Salif Diao appeared 61 times for the Reds and in a 2 ½ year spell at Anfield that ended in 2007 scored three goals.

Ricardo Fuller scored his 100^th goal in British football against Birmingham in midweek.

Robert Huth is the only Stoke player to appear in every game this season.

Kenwyne Jones, after scoring in four successive games earlier in the season has scored just once in the last seven matches and hasn't found the net in his last six league appearances.

Scorers this season: (League in brackets):

Liverpool: Gerrard 7 (3), Ngog 7 (1), Torres 5 (5), 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).

Stoke: Jones 5 (3), Fuller 2 (2), Huth 2 (2), Tuncay 2 (1), Walters 2 (1), Delap 1 (1), Abdoulaye Faye 1 (1), Higginbotham 1 (0), Whitehead 1 (1), own goals 1 (1).