Kai Havertz converted Declan Rice's cross inside 16 minutes as Arsenal held on for their first Premier League win at Anfield since 2012-13, leapfrogging Manchester City while Liverpool's slide continues.
Opta's pre-match numbers frame Sunday's meeting at Anfield as a collision between Arsenal's worst away ground and a Liverpool side built on defensive solidity rather than the goals this fixture used to guarantee.
A moment of pure combination play from Vieira, Henry and Pires in a 2004-05 defeat at Liverpool captured both the brilliance and the fragility of Arsene Wenger's post-Invincibles side.
Andoni Iraola's resurgent Liverpool host the Premier League's stingiest defence at Anfield, in a fixture that will test whether their new solidity can match Arsenal's season-long parsimony.
Arsenal chase a landmark away win against a side they rarely beat at Anfield, while two of the league's stingiest defences threaten to make goals scarce on Sunday.
Andoni Iraola's side sit fourth in the Premier League, but a look at their underlying numbers shows a counter-attacking team being stifled and bailed out by elite finishing, Planet Football's data reveals.
Alexander Isak's third goal in as many games and a deflected opener gave Liverpool a 2-0 win that exposed the gap between Brighton's results and their underlying numbers.
Two yellow cards in a minute turned a 10-vs-10 contest level on parity into a defeat that leaves Valencia second-bottom of La Liga and deepens Harvey Elliott's wasted loan spell.
The midfielder, out injured since his lone Serie A start, tells DAZN why he believes Inter's Champions League gap is smaller than people think — and what he brings to a midfield built for knockout football.
From Ian Rush in Turin to Trent Alexander-Arnold at the Bernabeu, Planet Football's survey of Liverpool exports reveals a recurring pattern: brilliance at Anfield, struggle everywhere else.