Pre-match statsReds look to break Forest duck in FA Cup meeting
Liverpool are looking to earn victory at Nottingham Forest for the first time since 1984 this evening.
The Reds and Forest will face off for the first time in nearly 23 years as Jürgen Klopp’s men travel for an Emirates FA Cup quarter-final.
Liverpool have been unable to record a win over the east Midlands side in their last 12 visits to the City Ground, a run that dates back 37 years to when Ronnie Whelan and Ian Rush earned a 2-0 result.
Read on for more facts and figures from club statistician Ged Rea ahead of the 6pm GMT kick-off with Steve Cooper’s side…
Liverpool and Forest have been drawn together seven times in the FA Cup, with the Reds progressing on six occasions.
The clubs last went head-to-head in 1999 at the City Ground, playing out a 2-2 draw in the Premier League, including goals from Jamie Redknapp and Michael Owen.
Liverpool have never lost an FA Cup tie at the City Ground across three visits, earning two wins and a draw in that time.
If the Reds score twice they will reach 350 goals in matches as the away team under Klopp, who has reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time.
Liverpool are aiming to reach the club’s 25th FA Cup semi-final, having won the competition on seven occasions. The last triumph came in 2006 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
The Reds are looking to win a fourth FA Cup game in succession for the first time since 2012, when they won five in a row on the way to a final defeat by Chelsea at Wembley.
Liverpool have scored the first goal of a game 33 times this season and have only failed to go on to win on three occasions after taking the lead.
Takumi Minamino is the Reds’ leading scorer in this season’s FA Cup with three goals to his name, which have come in 204 minutes of action. The Japan international also scored the most (four) in the club’s successful Carabao Cup campaign.
Forest have lost only one of their last 14 matches in all competitions; the defeat came at the hands of Liverpool’s fourth-round opponents Cardiff City in the Championship at the end of January.
Klopp has used 29 players in three FA Cup games this season so far, with only two players – Ibrahima Konate and Curtis Jones – starting every fixture. Minamino and Kostas Tsimikas have also appeared in each round.
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