Liverpool v Crystal Palace: The vital pre-match stats
Ahead of Liverpool's Anfield clash with Crystal Palace on Sunday, check out these 12 interesting facts and figures about the game from club statistician Ged Rea.
Last season Liverpool suffered their second ever home league defeat at the hands of Palace, losing 3-1. It was the final Anfield game of the campaign and signalled Steven Gerrard's farewell to the Kop.
In each of the three meetings last season the team that scored first went on to lose the game.
In 15 Anfield league clashes the Reds have found the net 42 times and conceded only eight, failing to score just once.
Liverpool’s biggest ever top-flight league win came in September 1989 when they won 9-0 against Palace. That victory set a league record when eight different men found the net.
Nathaniel Clyne played 137 times for Palace in four seasons scoring once before joining Southampton in 2012.
James Milner made his first-team debut 13 years ago this weekend as a substitute for Leeds at West Ham. Aged just 16 years 309 days, he became the then second youngest ever Premier League player.
The Reds are unbeaten in six league games since losing at Manchester United in September.
They have not lost in the last 12 games since a defeat at Old Trafford in September and in that time only Tottenham at White Hart Lane have prevented the Reds from scoring.
Palace have won their last two league clashes with the Reds - they have never beaten them in three consecutive meetings.
Alan Pardew has won two of his last three jousts with Liverpool, winning with both Palace and Newcastle. He has faced the Reds 14 times in the league as a manager - winning four and losing seven. He has won once at Anfield in eight visits.
The Eagles have lost four of the last seven league games after being as high as second place after winning 2-1 at Chelsea back in August.
Palace have been awarded seven penalties this season already with Yohan Cabaye and Dwight Gayle each scoring three. Five spot-kicks have been awarded in the last five games.