Jamie Carragher has warned former club Liverpool that FA Cup failure this season is unthinkable.  

With Chelsea and Manchester City both dumped out in the fourth round, the Reds, along with Arsenal and Manchester United are heavily fancied to go all the way. 

Brendan Rodgers' men travel to Crystal Palace in the fifth round on Saturday hoping to avoid a potentially season-defining result like the 3-3 draw at Selhurst Park last May that put a huge dent in Liverpool's Premier League title hopes, with City eventually crowned champions. 

Palace also ran out 3-1 winners at home in the league clash between the sides in November and Carragher knows Rodgers' side can ill-afford another slip-up in south London. 

"There is no doubt Palace have been a bogey team for Liverpool," wrote the legendary former Anfield defender in his weekly Daily Mail column. 

"They shattered Brendan Rodgers' hopes of bringing the title back to Anfield and the effects of that 3-3 draw were still being felt all the way through to last November, when Liverpool folded at Selhurst Park and were beaten 3-1.