Liverpool v Carlisle: 14 pre-match stats
Liverpool host Carlisle United in the third round of the Capital One Cup tonight - here are the key facts you should know ahead of the Anfield encounter.
Liverpool have previously played 221 games in the League Cup, winning 132 and scoring 444 goals.
Last season, the Reds reached the semi-finals of the competition but lost to eventual winners Chelsea 2-1 on aggregate.
At this stage in 2014-15, Brendan Rodgers’ team defeated Middlesbrough 14-13 in a penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw at Anfield. The 30 spot-kicks taken that night created a record for the tournament.
Liverpool and Carlisle have met eight times in history, with the Reds winning six and drawing two.
On the last three occasions Liverpool have faced lower-division opposition in the League Cup at Anfield, the game has gone to extra-time and in two cases penalties – Northampton Town in 2010 and Middlesbrough last season. They defeated Notts County after extra-time in 2013.
The last lower-division team to keep a League Cup clean sheet against Liverpool was Boro in the 1998 semi-final.
Liverpool have scored in all but three of their last 54 League Cup games – a sequence going back to 1998.
At Anfield in this competition they have found the net in all of the last 28 ties since Newcastle United kept a clean sheet in November 1995.
In round two, Carlisle shocked Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road by winning 2-1, with Derek Asamoah and Jason Kennedy finding the net to send their team into the third round for only the third time in the last 39 years.
Their manager, Keith Curle, played in this competition for Manchester City at Anfield and his side lost 4-0. He faced the Reds 14 times during his career, winning twice.
On this day last year, Nathaniel Clyne scored the first League Cup goal of his career - the winner for Southampton in a 2-1 victory at Arsenal.
Seven years ago today, meanwhile, Lucas Leiva scored the only League Cup goal of his career thus far in a 2-1 home win over Crewe Alexandra.
Martin Skrtel could play the 300th game of his Liverpool career in all competitions.
Bill Shankly began his career as both a player and a manager in England with Carlisle, managing the club from 1949 to 1951.