Carabao Cup: The best stats to know ahead of Liverpool v Crystal Palace

Anfield is the venue for the all-Premier League affair on Wednesday night, the third meeting between the clubs already this season.

Ahead of this latest encounter, read the following facts and figures provided by club statistician Ged Rea…

The teams are meeting in the League Cup for the first time since October 2005, when Palace won 2-1 at Selhurst Park in the third round.

Liverpool have won five of their last eight Anfield meetings with Wednesday’s opposition, losing only once – in April 2024.

The Reds’ last defeat at Anfield in normal time in the League Cup fourth round was a 3-1 loss to Swansea City in the 2012-13 season.

Liverpool have won 13 of the last 15 matches played on October 29.

Two players have scored League Cup hat-tricks for the Reds on the date of this tie – Paul Walsh against Brighton & Hove Albion in 1985 and then Steve McMahon versus Leicester City the following year.

Mohamed Salah is one goal short of taking his tally for the club to 250.

Salah has nine strikes in 16 appearances against Palace. Only Sadio Mane has a better record in contests versus the Eagles, with 10 goals in 10 games.

Cody Gakpo has nine goals in 12 Carabao Cup outings for the club, netting five of them last season. Only nine players before him have reached double figures in the competition.

In the last 16 League Cup rounds which Liverpool have been part of, they have faced Premier League opposition 13 times.

The defeat away at Tottenham Hotspur in the semi-final, first leg earlier this year is the only time the Reds have failed to score in any of the last 14 matches in the competition.

Liverpool have been involved in 15 League Cup penalty shootouts, winning 11 of them.

Palace could go four games unbeaten against the Reds in all competitions for the first time.

They have not scored more than once in a visit to Anfield since January 2019, when they netted three times but still lost 4-3.