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Bogey team.

Those two words will be on the minds of many Liverpool fans this weekend as they prepare for the arrival of Crystal Palace at Anfield on Sunday.

As if it isn't bad enough – in superstition terms at least - that the Reds are looking for a 13 match to add to their current unbeaten run.

That run combines the last six games of the Brendan Rodgers era and the first six of the nascent Klopp reign, the last two achieved on the road at Chelsea and Rubin Kazan in what has so far been a wonderfully pleasing week for Kopites.

But just when fans thought it was safe to press full-on positive mode, here they come ...Palace.

The minds of football fans can sometimes be left twisted and inaccurate by the prejudices of seasons past but those who are approaching the 4pm kick-off with some trepidation have every right to do so.

It is why the FA Cup win at Selhurst Park in February – secured by Adam Lallana and Daniel Sturridge goals – was greeted with such joy among Reds.

A dance indeed was forthcoming from Moreno, Sakho all smiles as he joined the fans and left his shirt with nine-year-old Michael Melia among the travelling Kop.

It felt like some sort of payback at least for a team which had become an all-too-persistent thorn in Liverpool sides in recent years.

Yet there they were, back again, this time to rain on Stevie's parade just three months later, Anfield's last farewell of the Gerrard era turned into a damp squib – in result at the very least.

The 3-1 win came despite Lallana opening the scoring and would have been worse bar a late Mignolet penalty save from the now-departed Glenn Murray.

The result matched that of Selhurst Park the previous November – on one of the worst days of the Rodgers era – and ensured Palace joined Manchester United as the only sides to complete the Premier League double over Liverpool last season.

And while the defeats to Louis van Gaal's men may ultimately have been by far the more damaging – decisive as they were in the battle for a Top Four spot - it was those to Palace that were the more puzzling, for all their 10 place finish was their best ever in a Premier League.

They could not be put down to any particular managerial tactic, for the occupier of the Palace technical zone barely seemed to matter.

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Eagles fly high against the Reds

Neil Warnock was in charge for the November debacle in London, Rickie Lambert's first Liverpool goal overwhelmed by a swift response from regular tormentor Dwight Gayle and later efforts from Joe Ledley and Mile Jedinak.

That Warnock team were in the midst of a terrible 12-game run up to Boxing Day which would cost him his job. The only team Palace could beat in those three months of October, November and December was Liverpool.

With Warnock gone, Alan Pardew was the man at the helm as the Eagles turned party poopers in May.

Though perhaps he, more than anybody, was entitled to a little revenge on the Reds' captain, denied as he was a famous FA Cup triumph as West Ham manager in 2006 only by Gerrard heroics that have become the stuff of legend.

Pardew's victory brought Palace's latest run against the Reds to a frankly astonishing five wins out of the last nine meetings dating back to 2003, with such managerial luminaries as Iain Dowie (twice) and Trevor Francis all getting in on the act.

Even draws have proved disastrous for the Reds, most infamously the 3-3 of 2014 – Tony Pulis in the opposition dugout this time - and still the stuff of nightmares for all with a Red heart.

Gayle's late double cemented his reputation as a rival to be feared (four in four against Liverpool) and while he is struggling for form and fitness this year, who would bet against both returning by Sunday?

All of this is not to suggest of course that Jurgen Klopp's team – with the 5,000-mile round trip to deepest Russia safely behind them – can't have collected another three points by 6pm, establishing some clear air with a team who sit just two places and one point behind them in the Premier League table in 10th.

A new sense of collective purpose has enveloped the team since the German's arrival, players are smiling, enjoying their football and the results have started to flow.

For all their bogey status Palace have only ever won two league games at Anfield in 15 attempts, scoring eight and conceding 42 along the way.

Klopp has already stormed the Bridge, and advanced into Europe - but can he take the Palace?

That really would seem to be a sign that things are changing down Anfield Way.