Reds hoping for clean sheets record

Last updated : 07 May 2006 By Al Campbell
The most clean sheets a Liverpool side has kept in a single season in 34, which the club have done on three previous occasions. The current side have kept 33 clean sheets this season and are hoping to equal the club record at Fratton Park.

A clean sheet this afternoon and again in the FA Cup final on Saturday would see Pepe Reina complete an excellent debut season in the Premiership. Reina has already gone longer than any Liverpool goalkeeper without conceding a goal and kept more clean sheets in his first fifty games for the club than the great Ray Clemence did.

The Reds have only conceded 24 league goals this season, a feat they've only bettered on two occasions in their history; the extraordinary 1978/9 side that conceded only 16 times, and the 1893/4 side that conceded 18, albeit over a 28 game season.