Liverpool v Bolton: Stats and facts

The sides last met in January 2012 in a league fixture at Bolton, with the hosts winning 3-1. Craig Bellamy scored for the Reds, while current Wanderers player Mark Davies was among their scorers.

Glen Johnson, Jose Enrique, Martin Skrtel, Jordan Henderson and Steven Gerrard all started. Meanwhile, only Davies, Adam Bogdan and David Wheater are still with Bolton.

That victory for Bolton is their only success against the Reds in the last 11 meetings, with Liverpool winning 10.

The last time the teams met in this competition saw the Lancashire club win 2-0 at Anfield in 1993 with goals from John McGinlay and Andy Walker. Former Red Mark Seagraves was in the visitors' starting XI.

The Reds' only Anfield win over Bolton in the FA Cup came in 1946. However, in the only season Liverpool played a two-legged tie in the competition, they went out 5-2 on aggregate. 

This season marks the 50th anniversary of Liverpool's first FA Cup final success. They have lifted the trophy seven times in all, with the last coming in 2006 when they defeated West Ham United on penalties in Cardiff.

Six lower-division sides have knocked Liverpool out of the cup in the last 15 seasons - Blackburn Rovers in 2000, Crystal Palace in 2003, Burnley in 2005, Barnsley in 2008, Reading in 2010 and Oldham Athletic in 2013.

The last Liverpool hat-trick in the FA Cup was scored by Yossi Benayoun against non-league Havant & Waterlooville in the fourth round in 2008.

Four Liverpool players have scored Anfield hat-tricks against Bolton - Jack Parkinson (1913), Henry Race (1929), Jimmy Case (1978) and Robbie Fowler (1995).

The only Reds player to score an FA Cup hat-trick against the Trotters was Jimmy Walsh, who netted three in a 4-1 win at Bolton in February 1924.

Liverpool have won all of the last nine meetings at Anfield since Bolton won 3-2 in the League Cup in December 2003.

Henderson scored his first goal for Liverpool against today's opponents in a 3-1 win in August 2011. Lucas Leiva's only FA Cup goal for Liverpool came seven years ago this weekend against Havant & Waterlooville.

During his Reds career, Gerrard has scored seven times in 22 appearances against Bolton - all past former Trotters goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen.

In the last round Gerrard became only the third player to make more than 200 cup appearances for the club following Jamie Carragher, with 227, and Ian Callaghan, with 210.

When he scored at AFC Wimbledon in the third round, Gerrard became the third-oldest scorer for the club in this competition at the age of 34 years and 220 days. Only Billy Liddell and Kenny Dalglish were older.

The Reds are unbeaten in their last nine games in all competitions - six wins and three draws - and have lost only one of the last 15 in league and cup.

Liverpool are unbeaten at home in seven games since their defeat by Chelsea early in November, though there have been five draws. They have conceded two goals in their last four games in all competitions.

One Liverpool player who has scored against Bolton this season is Joao Carlos Teixeira, who was on target in a win for his loan club Brighton & Hove Albion back in August.

This will be the second in a sequence of three successive domestic cup games for the Reds - the first time this has occurred since February 1987.

Bolton were the first winners of the cup at Wembley, doing so in the 'White Horse' final of 1923. They defeated West Ham 2-0, with the Londoners being captained by George Kay, who went on to manage Liverpool.

They have won the trophy four times, on three occasions in the 1920s and again in 1958 when they defeated Manchester United, just months after the Munich air crash. Three times they have lost in the final - 1894, 1903 and famously to Blackpool in 1953 when Stanley Mortensen scored a hat-trick in the 'Matthews Final'.

Since the 1958 final, Wanderers have reached the semi-final twice, losing to Aston Villa on penalties in 2000 and 5-0 to Stoke City in 2011.

Last season they went out in the fourth round to Cardiff City while in the third round this season they overcame Wigan Athletic 1-0 at home with a goal from debutant Zach Clough. Clough was born on the day that Emile Heskey made his Leicester City debut in the Premier League in March 1995.

Bolton's Ray Westwood is one of only two players to score an FA Cup hat-trick against Liverpool. He did so in a 5-0 win in 1946. The other man to achieve the feat was John Boag of Derby County in 1897-98.

Wanderers have failed to progress in only two of the eight FA Cup ties with the Reds. They have also beaten Liverpool in two of the three League Cup meetings, but the one they lost was the 1995 final.

They could become the first team ever to eliminate Liverpool at Anfield in the FA Cup on three occasions. Chelsea and Huddersfield Town have also won twice.

Bolton have scored two goals in their last eight visits to Anfield - both in the league. The Trotters have lost just one of their last 12 games in league and cup - a 2-1 defeat at Huddersfield on December 28.