Reading pre-match pack

Here are all the important pre-match stats and facts ahead of Wednesday's FA Cup third round replay with Reading.

Liverpool's FA Cup record: Pld  403 Won 214  Drawn  89  Lost  100  Goals For  670  Against 380.

The two sides met at the Madejski Stadium 11 days ago for the first time ever in this competition.

Reading became Liverpool's 96^th different opponent in the FA Cup - the Reds' 95^th were Havant and Waterlooville two years ago.

Only Manchester United (11), Arsenal (10) and Tottenham (eight) have won the trophy more often than Liverpool who, like Aston Villa, have lifted it seven times.

Liverpool were drawn away from home in the third round for the seventh time in eight seasons.

Liverpool have succumbed to lower Division sides four times in the last 10 seasons - Blackburn (2000), Crystal Palace (2003), Burnley (2005) and Barnsley (2008).

Fernando Torres scored his first Liverpool hat-trick at Reading in a League Cup tie in September 2007. He has scored four goals for the Reds in four appearances against the Royals.

Yossi Benayoun scored his first Liverpool goal against Reading in the same match.

Steven Gerrard's equaliser in the first game was his 10^th FA Cup goal for the club. He became the 14^th Liverpool player to reach double figures in the competition.

The Liverpool captain is one of three players who won the FA Cup in 2006 still at the club. The others are Pepe Reina and Jamie Carragher. Yossi Benayoun was in the West Ham side that day.

Dirk Kuyt has scored twice for Liverpool in this competition and both times the Reds have been knocked out. He found the net against Arsenal in 2007 and Barnsley a year later.

Yossi Benayoun's three Liverpool goals in the FA Cup all came against Havant and Waterlooville in 2008.

Liverpool have lost to lower Division opposition 22 times in the competition, while they have also gone out at this stage on 22 occasions.

The Reds have won all three meetings between the clubs on this ground - scoring eight goals and conceding four.

The Reds have only ever lost one penalty shoot-out in their history. That came at Wimbledon in the League Cup in December 1993. They have won all of the other ten including three in the FA Cup - 1992 against Portsmouth, Birmingham (1995) and West Ham (2006).

Liverpool have won five and lost five of their last 10 FA Cup replays, coming out on top in only one of the last four.

The Reds have played in the FA Cup seven times on January 13. The last occasion in 1993 saw them lose 2-0 to Bolton at Anfield.

Only two players have ever scored FA Cup hat-tricks against Liverpool: Boag of Derby County in 1897-98 and Ray Westwood of Bolton in 1945-46.

Reading have scored in six of the seven previous meetings with Liverpool with the Reds having scored in every game.

Reading have never reached an FA Cup Final. The closest they came was in 1927 when they reached a Semi- Final at Molineux only to lose 3-0 to eventual winners Cardiff City.

They have also reached round five in 1929, 1935, 1998 and 2007.

Last season Reading lost at the third round stage, going down 2-0 at Cardiff City.

They have gone beyond this stage only three times in the last 11 seasons. Their best run in that time came in 2006-07 when they made it to round five only to lose 3-2 at home to Manchester United in a replay.

The last Reading player to score an FA Cup hat-trick was Peter Harman in a 6-1 win over Blyth Spartans in 1971-72.

The club's only major honour came in 1988 when they won the Simod Cup.

Reading have won three of their last 24 away games in this competition and only two in the last 10 seasons (Birmingham 2007 and Swansea 2005).

Reading have won four of their 12 away games this season. In those matches the Royals have kept two clean sheets.

On their travels they have scored in each of the last 10 games.

Reading have been in two FA Cup penalty shoot-outs. In 1997-98 they defeated Cardiff City but five seasons later they lost to Walsall - both games were at home.

They have not beaten a top-flight team away from home in the FA Cup since winning 2-1 at Notts County in 1902.

They did, however, beat Manchester United 2-1 at Villa Park in a second replay after drawing 2-2 at Old Trafford in 1927. The first meeting had ended 1-1.

Current midfielder Brian Howard scored the winner for Barnsley against Liverpool at Anfield as he captained the club to a 2-1 victory.

Gylfi Sigurdsson has scored in five of Reading's last nine games and is the Royals leading scorer this season with seven.

Reading have kept only one clean sheet in the last 19 games in all competitions.

However, they have scored in each of their last 11 fixtures.

Reading have not won in their last six games since winning 2-0 at Sheffield Wednesday in early December.

Scorers this season (FA Cup in brackets):

Liverpool: Torres 12 (0), Benayoun 7 (0), Gerrard 6 (1), Kuyt 6 (0), Ngog 6 (0), Babel 3 (0), Johnson 2 (0), Insua 1 (0), Mascherano 1 (0), Skrtel 1 (0).

Reading: Sigurdsson 7 (0), Rasiak 6 (0), Church 5 (1), Bignall 2 (0), Hunt 2 (0), Mills 2 (0), Mooney 2 (0), Pearce 2 (0), Cisse 1 (0), Howard 1 (0), Kebe 1 (0), McAnuff 1 (0), own goals 1 (0).