Liverpool 0-0 Tottenham LIVE SCORE: Carabao Cup latest updates as Van Dijk and Richarlison clash in fiery start

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13: Couple of nervy moments for Tottenham here. Archie Gray gifts the shot to Cody Gakpo wrong his ain fractional earlier goalkeeper Kinsky astir spills a precise regular looping shot consecutive to Darwin Nunez.

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11: Darwin Nunez down getting attraction aft colliding with Richarlison. He's backmost up and moving again.

LIVERPOOL 0-0 TOTTENHAM

Live updates from our antheral astatine Anfield, Tom Barclay

Liverpool are the grounds holders of this competition, having won it 10 times.

But they are going to person to overturn a one-goal shortage if they are going to get done and springiness themselves a accidental of an 11th League Cup title.

Arne Slot was expecting a "competitive" crippled and determination has been immoderate aboriginal needly involving Richarlison and Virgil van Dijk.

Tottenham's Brazilian striker did not look impressed erstwhile Van Dijk caught him with a stray elbow - but VAR backed up the on-field determination to instrumentality nary punishment.

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9: Liverpool's archetypal task guardant sees Tottenham goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky called into enactment with Mohamed Salah's deflected effort gathered easily.

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7: Should beryllium absorbing to show that concern betwixt Virgil van Dijk and the erstwhile Everton man.

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6: Now what's happened present then... Richarlison and Virgil Van Dijk are having a scuffle and it's the Brazilian who ends up connected the deck.

On a person inspection it does look that VVD has swung his elbow successful Richarlison's direction. It hits him successful the thorax alternatively than the face.

In immoderate case, VAR clears it with thing given. Referee Craig Pawson not funny successful getting involved.

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3: Well, you would person to accidental that Tottenham person started successful a assured fashion. They've seen a small spot much of the shot with nary chances for either broadside successful the aboriginal stages.

I'll besides accidental that those 6,000 Tottenham fans are making 1 hellhole of a noise.

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1: And we're underway folks.

Keep an oculus retired for that conflict betwixt Tottenham full-back Djed Spence and Mohamed Salah. Spence has lone been dribbled past 3 times this season!

“This is the archetypal clip we person played a location crippled successful a knockout stage, I americium precise curios to acquisition this moment," Arne Slot said soon earlier KO. He's astir to find out.

Good news

Kind of.

It's beauteous fortunate that Tottenham don't request to triumph the lucifer tonight.

They've won lone erstwhile astatine Anfield since 1999 successful 27 visits.

That sole triumph came successful a 2-0 triumph with Rafael van der Vaart and Luka Modric some scoring. Spurs really finished supra Liverpool that play (2010/11).

Tel

Will Tottenham fans get their archetypal glimpse of Mathys Tel successful competitory enactment tonight? They volition if he's TELeported onto the pitch… I'll spot myself out.

Mr Carabao

Cody Gakpo loves the Carabao Cup. It's conscionable a fact.

The Dutchman, 25, has made a full of 10 appearances successful the League Cup and he's netted 8 goals and provided 1 assistance - winning it past twelvemonth of course.

He's already bagged 4 (two braces) successful this run and is present conscionable 2 goals shy of breaking Robbie Fowler's nine grounds of six goals successful a azygous Carabao Cup campaign, acceptable successful the 2000-01 season.

"Listening to immoderate mug similar me" - Ange Postecoglou

Tottenham manager Postecoglou said: "Kevin Danso has travel successful and he's settled successful truly well. He is beauteous calm, matured and an experienced guy. We're putting him successful today.

"It's a semi-final of a contention wherever there's a large prize. Irrespective of who you're playing and wherever you're playing.

"So springiness the champion of yourself and bask it due to the fact that the alternate is sitting connected the sofa and listening to immoderate mug similar maine alternatively of being involved. We're progressive contiguous and that's the main thing.

"Every crippled is large for us. The league crippled connected Sunday was large for us, the past European crippled was large for us. It shows we're doing thing right, due to the fact that we're connected the verge of doing thing special."

Options

This clash, of course, is being broadcast connected Sky and ITV this evening.

So for those with entree to both, you've got Sky's Jamie Carragher, Jamie Redknapp and Michel Dawson vs ITV's Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand….

Personally? I deliberation you should conscionable instrumentality with us. Obviously.

Building

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Surprised

Jamie Carragher was a spot amazed with Arne Slot's squad enactment this evening, particularly with what should beryllium a straightforward travel to Plymouth connected Sunday.

"I didn't expect that team," Carragher told Sky Sports.

"We cognize what Liverpool's champion squad is close now. It would beryllium Luis Diaz successful the centre. It's a spot of a daze Darwin Nunez is in, possibly helium was disappointed with Diaz astatine the weekend.

"But we cognize that Nunez brings thing antithetic to Diaz."

He does indeed, Jamie. Chaos.

Key figure

I wonderment who this could be?

Yep, it's Mohamed Salah. The Egyptian superstar, 32, has been progressive successful 9 goals successful his past six appearances against Tottenham successful each competitions, scoring six and assisting three.

Niche

Did you know... Lucas Bergvall could go the archetypal Tottenham subordinate to people successful some legs of a League Cup semi-final since Roman Pavlyuchenko successful 2008-09.

Pavlyuchenko is progressive successful respective existent spot and edifice businesses crossed Russia, Wikipedia tells me.

Winning machine

Lot of speech astir Ange Postecoglou's 2nd season… what astir Arne Slot's first?!

Replacing Jurgen Klopp looked a precise gangly bid so but it simply couldn't person gone overmuch amended for the erstwhile Feyenoord boss.

Liverpool are inactive successful the moving for each 4 trophies - and person lone mislaid 3 times successful this campaign!

The Reds are odds-on favourites for the title, 2 games distant from winning the Carabao Cup, look Championship opponents successful the FA Cup and finished apical of the Champions League's inaugural league phase.

Woof.

That 2nd year

I wonderment whether Ange regrets saying "I ever triumph things successful my 2nd year" astatine a club?

Don't get maine wrong, the assurance is large but helium indispensable of heard that said backmost to him a cardinal times since helium said it successful September.

Sort of similar erstwhile I said I'd suggest six years ago.

Anyway, if you weren't aware, Postecoglou won a trophy successful his 2nd twelvemonth with South Melbourne, Brisbane Roar, Yokohama F Marinos, the Australia nationalist squad and Celtic.

The lone times helium failed to triumph a trophy were with teams helium did not enactment for 2 years astatine - Panachaiki, Whittlesea Zebras and Melbourne Victory.

Tottenham - 2 changes

Tottenham - Ange Postecoglou makes 2 changes to the broadside that bushed Brentford implicit the weekend.

Kevin Danso replaces Pedro Porro with seemingly the astir versatile subordinate successful satellite football, Archie Gray, moving to right-back. Mikey Moore drops to the seat with Pape Sarr starting.

Yes, yes, Mathys Tel is connected the bench.

Liverpool - 4 changes

Arne Slot has so made 4 changes from the broadside who bushed Bournemouth astatine the Vitality Stadium past weekend.

Conor Bradley replaces the injured Trent Alexander-Arnold astatine right-back. Elsewhere Caoimhin Kelleher replaces Alisson betwixt the sticks with Curtis Jones and Darwin Nunez preferred to Alexis Mac Allister and Luis Diaz.

Starting XI

There is so a debut for caller enlistee Kevin Danso! He makes the starting XI with Mathys Tel settling for a spot amongst the substitutes. Full tally down connected its mode shortly.

Liverpool: Kelleher; Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Jones, Szoboszlai; Salah, Nunez, Gakpo.

Subs: Jaros, Endo, Diaz, Mac Allister, Chiesa, Elliott, Jota, Tsimikas, Quansah.

Tottenham: Kinsky; Gray, Danso, Davies, Spence; Bentancur, Bissouma, Sarr; Kulusevski, Richarlison, Son.

Subs: Austin, Porro, Reguilon, Bergvall, Ajayi, Cassanova, Olusesi, Moore, Tel.

The situation

Well it's reasonably evident what the concern is, but I'm contractually obliged to tally you done it.

Tottenham caput to Anfield with a slender 1-0 vantage from the archetypal limb of this Carabao Cup semi-final courtesy of Lucas Bergvall's precocious strike.

They simply request a gully oregon triumph to unafraid harmless transition to the last against Newcastle astatine Wembley successful March and perchance extremity their 17-year drought without a trophy.

As for holders Liverpool, they request to triumph by 2 goals to proceed the defence of their rubric arsenic some managers purpose for a archetypal last successful English football.

Slot's approach

So, Tottenham ain't changing - and nor volition Liverpool.

Not excessively hard to spot wherefore I suppose.

"I don't deliberation I person to hole them otherwise to immoderate different game," Arne Slot said.

"From present on, until the extremity of the play and arsenic agelong arsenic Liverpool exists, you request to triumph the game. We were rather adjacent successful the archetypal limb until the past fewer seconds. Nothing changes for this crippled compared to each the others. There's lone 1 happening expected of you - to triumph the game."

Change of philosophy?

No chance, mate.

Though they lone request to support their one-gaol advantage, Tottenham volition surely not beryllium altering their approach.

"It depends what you deliberation our doctrine is," Ange Postecoglou said.

"My doctrine is to effort and triumph games of football. If radical haven't understood my doctrine aft 26 years of management, I don't deliberation thing I accidental present volition alteration that."

Going for the triumph then…