Anfield
Monday, 1 January
Kick-off: 1245 GMT
Coverage on the BBC Sport website, BBC Radio Five Live, and highlights on MOTD
Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez must wait on Craig Bellamy's fitness ahead of Bolton's visit after the striker felt a tight hamstring in the win over Spurs.
Otherwise Benitez has no new worries, with Boudewijn Zenden, Mohamed Sissoko and Harry Kewell long-term injuries.
Bolton manager Sam Allardyce could be tempted to name an unchanged side after their 3-2 win over Portsmouth.
Nicolas Anelka will hope to add to his recent record of seven goals in eight games against his former club.
Interview: Bolton's Gary Speed
Liverpool (from): Reina, Finnan, Agger, Carragher, Riise, Gerrard, Luis Garcia, Aurelio, Alonso, Bellamy, Kuyt, Hyypia, Gonzalez, Crouch, Fowler, Pennant, Paletta, Martin, Dudek.
Bolton (from): Jaaskelainen, Hunt, Meite, Faye, Ben Haim, Giannakopoulos, Speed, Campo, Nolan, Diouf, Anelka, Davies, Walker, Pedersen, Gardner, Vaz Te, Tal, Teimourian, Fojut.
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BIG-MATCH FACTS
LIVERPOOL and Bolton will get the Premiership underway in 2007. Their lunchtime engagement is an intriguing affair between the two clubs sitting in the top four. The Reds climbed back to fourth with Saturday's single goal victory at Tottenham - their fifth win in six Premiership outings. Another maximum here would see them swapping places with the Trotters.
Rafa Benitez' side have not conceded in five games or 484 minutes (eight hours four minutes) of Premiership football on home turf, since Gabriel Agbonlahor scored Aston Villa's only goal in a 3-1 result on 28 October. Liverpool hold one of the three remaining unbeaten home records in the top division. They've not lost in 26 League games at Anfield, winning 22 and drawing four since the 1-4 reverse to Chelsea on 2 October 2005. This season, eight clubs have left the Merseyside club without a point and only Blackburn (1-1) and Portsmouth (0-0) have claimed a point each.
Robbie Fowler celebrated his 31st birthday in fine style by scoring the only goal in last season's corresponding fixture. It was Liverpool's fourth successive home League win over Bolton and extended their unbeaten Anfield Premiership record against the Trotters to seven games (six wins and one draw). They have not lost a home League game against the Trotters in 53 years, winning nine and drawing two of 11, since the 1-2 top flight defeat on 2 January 1954.
BOLTON WANDERERS have climbed into the top three with a fifth win on the bounce by the odd goal in five over fellow in-form Portsmouth. This is Bolton's eighth season in this League, and they've never before managed a string of six successive Premiership victories.
The Trotters travel the 42 miles in search of a sixth League victim on the road and a third in succession. The Reebok club have already accounted for Portsmouth, Newcastle, Blackburn, Aston Villa and Manchester City on their top flight travels.
Wanderers took advantage of Liverpool's wretched away form to win the reverse fixture 2-0. Gary Speed opened the scoring with a free kick controversially awarded after Reds keeper Jose Reina was adjudged to have carried the ball out of his area, but television replays showed he had not. Bolton are now on target for their first League 'double' over Liverpool since the 1953-54 season.
REFEREE
Graham Poll (Tring, Hertfordshire)
Premiership referees' table
Graham Poll's 2006-07 Premiership card count
SEQUENCES/RECENT FORM
LIVERPOOL
Club stats
Fixtures
4th 37 points
Highest achievable: 3rd
Lowest could fall: 5th
BOLTON WANDERERS
Club stats
Fixtures
3rd 39 points
Highest achievable: 3rd
Lowest could fall: 4th
KEY PLAYER NOTES/POTENTIAL MILESTONES
LIVERPOOL
Squad profiles
Peter CROUCH is Liverpool's top scorer with nine goals.
Jose Manuel REINA is the only remaining player to have been on the field for every minute of the Reds' Premiership matches this season.
REINA and Steven GERRARD are the only players to have figured in at least a part of each of Liverpool's Premiership games this season.
BOLTON WANDERERS
Squad profiles
Nicolas ANELKA is Bolton's top scorer with eight goals - seven of which were in the Premiership.
ANELKA has scored five in five League appearances.
There are two former Liverpool players in the Bolton ranks - ANEKLA and El-Hadji DIOUF.
ANELKA made 22 appearances and scored five goals (20 appearances, four goals in the Premiership) when on loan to the Merseysiders from Paris St-Germain for five months from December 2001.
DIOUF made 80 appearances and scored six goals in two seasons at Anfield, until he was transferred to the Reebok in a £3.5 million move in August 2004. The Senegal international scored three goals in 55 Premiership appearances for the Reds.
Only Jussi JAASKELAINEN has figured in every minute of every one of the Trotters' Premiership fixtures this season.
If he keeps goal from the outset, the Finland International will be making his 300th start in English League appearance - all for Bolton.
Kevin DAVIES is a brace shy of 50 career Premiership goals.
When he next keeps goal from the outset, Ian WALKER will be making his 400th career League start (Spurs, Oxford, Leicester and Bolton).
LAST SEASON'S CORRESPONDING GAME
Liverpool 1-0 Bolton Wanderers
9 April 2006 - Ref: Rob Styles
Liverpool scorer: Fowler 45
THIS SEASON'S REVERSE FIXTURE
Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Liverpool
30 September 2006 - Ref: Phil Dowd
Bolton scorers: Speed 30, Campo 51
HEAD TO HEAD TOTALS
Home and away
League: Liverpool 43 wins, Bolton 35, Draws 29
Prem: Liverpool 8 wins, Bolton 3, Draws 4
at Liverpool only
League: Liverpool 27 wins, Bolton 10, Draws 16
Prem: Liverpool 6 wins, Bolton 0, Draws 1
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