The Reds visit Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for a 5.30pm GMT kick-off on Saturday.
Ekitike goes into the game having scored four times in his last two top-flight outings, netting braces against Leeds United and Brighton & Hove Albion respectively.
He could, therefore, become only the second Liverpool player to notch multiple goals in three consecutive Premier League matches after Suarez, who did so in four successive games in December 2013.
Here are more pre-match facts and figures to know, from LFC statistician Ged Rea and Opta…
The clubs have met 66 times in the Premier League, with Liverpool winning 34, drawing 17 and losing 15.
Away from home in that period, the Reds have won 12 times, with Tottenham winning 13 and eight matches ending in draws. Liverpool have scored more goals in those encounters (52-47).
Tottenham have won just two of their last 25 Premier League games against Liverpool (drawn six, lost 17), picking up home wins in October 2017 (4-1) and September 2023 (2-1).
This will be Liverpool’s seventh league visit to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – they have previously lost only once there, in September 2023, winning four times and drawing twice.
Liverpool won both Premier League meetings with Tottenham last season by 6-3 and 5-1 scorelines. Only the Reds themselves have scored five or more goals in three consecutive games against an opponent in the competition, doing so against Norwich between September 2012 and December 2013.
Liverpool have scored 52 times at Tottenham in the Premier League. Only away to West Ham United (55) and Newcastle United (54) have they scored more on the road.
Never in their history have Liverpool scored more than three times in successive league visits to Tottenham.
Liverpool have scored in 25 of their last 26 Premier League games against Tottenham, including the last 19 in a row. Only against Arsenal (a current run of 20) have they had a longer scoring streak in the competition.
Liverpool v Tottenham is the top scoring fixture in Premier League history (206 goals). The last three league matches between the pair have seen 21 goals, while there have been at least three goals in 14 of their last 16 league meetings.
The Reds have recorded five league doubles (wins home and away) over Tottenham in the last seven seasons and 10 in the Premier League era.
Of Liverpool’s last 53 league games played during the month of December they have lost just once, 1-0 at Leicester City in 2021, and of the other 52 they won 38 and drew 14.
Alexander Isak has scored six goals in five Premier League appearances against Tottenham. Against no side has he found the back of the net more often in the competition.
Only two Liverpool players have scored hat-tricks at Tottenham: Billy Liddell in 1951 and Roger Hunt in 1964.