StatsLiverpool aiming to continue FA Cup third-round form

Since 2011, the Reds have reached the competition’s fourth round every year apart from one – when they were beaten at Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2019.

They have not lost an FA Cup third-round tie at Anfield since 2007, meanwhile.

Read on for more facts and figures ahead of the 2pm GMT kick-off against League One side Shrewsbury…

The two teams last met in 2020 in the FA Cup fourth round, with Liverpool winning a replay at Anfield 1-0 after a 2-2 draw in the first meeting at Shrewsbury.

The Reds named the club’s youngest ever starting XI that night – at an average age of 19 years and 102 days – while Curtis Jones became the youngest Liverpool captain in history (19 years and five days).

Their other previous clash, at the same stage of the FA Cup in 1996, saw the Reds win 4-0 at Gay Meadow courtesy of strikes by Stan Collymore, Robbie Fowler and Jason McAteer, plus an own goal.

Liverpool have won six and lost six of 16 FA Cup games under Jürgen Klopp.

The Reds have won all three of the penalty shootouts they have previously contested in the FA Cup, most recently the 2006 final against West Ham United.

Klopp’s men are unbeaten in the past 18 matches at Anfield in all competitions.

Nineteen hat-tricks have been scored by Liverpool players in the FA Cup, with the last by Yossi Benayoun against non-league Havant & Waterlooville in 2008.

The trip to Anfield is a third successive away tie for Shrewsbury in the FA Cup this season. They beat seventh-tier Stratford Town 5-1 in round one and then eliminated Carlisle United with a 2-1 result last time out.

Shrewsbury boss Steve Cotterill has faced the Reds once before as a manager, winning with Burnley in an FA Cup tie in 2005.