PreviewFA Cup: 15 stats to know before Man City v Liverpool quarter-final
See our round-up of 15 statistics to know ahead of Liverpool’s trip to Manchester City in the quarter-finals of the Emirates FA Cup.
The Reds visit Etihad Stadium on Saturday lunchtime (12.45pm BST kick-off).
Here is a selection of facts and figures ahead of the last-eight tie, from club statistician Ged Rea…
This will be Liverpool’s 458th FA Cup match. They have won 246 and lost 115 in the competition to date.
The Reds have won each of the last four FA Cup meetings and have not lost to City in this competition since 1973.
In 1988, 2001 and 2022, Liverpool beat City en route to reaching the FA Cup final.
The Reds have met City away from home 100 times in league and cup, winning 37 of those games – one more than they have lost.
Liverpool have won six of their 26 visits to Etihad Stadium, losing 11, and have won just one of their last nine matches there.
The Reds have scored in 14 of their last 17 visits to City in league and cup, with the 3-0 defeat there in the Premier League this season the only time in the last 15 they have failed to net.
Michael Owen is the only Liverpool player to score a hat-trick away at City, doing so at Maine Road in September 2002.
The last Reds player to score more than once in a game against City was Andy Carroll in a 3-0 victory at Anfield in April 2011.
The last to do so away at City was Fernando Torres in a 3-2 league win in October 2008.
The Reds are eight-time winners of the FA Cup and are aiming to reach the semi-finals for the 26th time. Only Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea have played in more than 26 (Everton also 26).
Liverpool have won all four of the penalty shootouts they have contested in this competition.
On each of the last six occasions the Reds have been eliminated from the FA Cup, that loss has come away from Anfield. Their last game at this stage saw them lose 4-3 after extra-time to Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Liverpool last won away to a Premier League team at the quarter-final stage in 2006 when they beat Birmingham City 7-0.
Curtis Jones could become the first Liverpool player to score in three successive rounds of the FA Cup since Luis Suarez in 2012 and the first since Robbie Fowler in 1996 to score in rounds four, five and six in the same season.
Only Mohamed Salah (eight goals in 14 appearances) has scored more FA Cup goals than Jones (five in 19) in the Reds’ current squad.