
MatchFA Cup: 14 stats to know ahead of Liverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion
Anfield is the stage on Saturday night for the all-Premier League tie in the fourth round.
Club statistician Ged Rea has provided the following facts and figures to know before the clash.
This is Liverpool's 456th game in the FA Cup. They have won 244 and lost 115.
The Reds are unbeaten in their last 10 FA Cup matches at Anfield (nine wins and a draw) since a 3-2 defeat by West Bromwich Albion in January 2018.
The teams have met 22 times at Anfield in all competitions, with Liverpool winning 14, drawing five and losing three.
Of the last six meetings with Brighton, the Reds have won four, with a draw and defeat in the others. They have scored at least twice in all six of those, netting 13 goals in total.
The last time a fixture between Liverpool and Brighton ended goalless was in September 1961.
Arne Slot's men have lost two of their last 18 matches and are looking to secure back-to-back clean sheets for the first time since December, when the second of which came against the Seagulls.
Mohamed Salah is the club's leading scorer versus Brighton, netting 10 goals from 19 appearances.
When scoring against Barnsley in round three, Hugo Ekitike became only the second Liverpool player in history to score in five different competitions during their debut season after Kenny Dalglish in 1977-78.
Cody Gakpo is two short of becoming the 58th player in Reds history to reach 50 goals.
Dominik Szoboszlai is currently on his highest total of goals for Liverpool in a season with nine. The best tally of his career is the 12 he netted for Red Bull Salzburg in 2019-20.
Brighton have knocked Liverpool out of the FA Cup on three occasions and are the last team to eliminate them in successive seasons – in 1983 and 1984.
The Seagulls have kept two clean sheets at Anfield in their 22 visits, winning both times (1982 and 2021).
Former Liverpool vice-captain James Milner has faced the Reds 25 times in his career and been on the scoresheet once.
Only Leandro Trossard (five) has scored more goals for Brighton against Liverpool than Lewis Dunk's three.