Mohamed Salah aiming for another milestone as Tottenham could become the new Man Utd

Mohamed Salah volition beryllium cardinal to Liverpool's chances of beating Tottenham successful the Carabao Cup and the guardant could besides interruption a large idiosyncratic milestone successful the process

Mohamed Salah could interruption a idiosyncratic milestone erstwhile Liverpool instrumentality connected Tottenham successful the 2nd limb of their Carabao Cup semi-final clash connected Thursday.

Liverpool volition request to overturn a 1 extremity shortage aft Lucas Bergvall's precocious onslaught saw Tottenham triumph the archetypal limb 1-0. Salah volition beryllium cardinal to Liverpool's chances of reaching the final, having made 42 extremity contributions successful 33 appearances crossed each competitions truthful acold this season.

The 32-year-old does person an fantabulous grounds against Spurs, having scored 14 goals successful 22 games against them during his clip astatine Liverpool, Fiorentina, Chelsea and Basel. If helium scores a brace connected Thursday, Tottenham volition determination level with Manchester United arsenic the squad Salah has been astir prolific against.

The Egyptian has scored a singular 16 goals against United successful conscionable 17 games. Djed Spence is expected to beryllium the antheral tasked with keeping Salah quiescent connected Thursday and the full-back is feeling assured astir his chances.

"I backmost myself against immoderate winger, Salah oregon whoever," the 24-year-old said. "I backmost myself against anyone. [Salah] is simply a large player, a apical player. He's successful bully signifier also. You've conscionable got to nullify what he's bully astatine it, really.

"He's bully astatine a batch of things, I conscionable gotta enactment focused connected it and hopefully travel retired connected top. We're ever ready. We've got to beryllium assured and we gotta beryllium acceptable to combat and hopefully we marque it to the final.

"I instrumentality assurance from each game, each crippled I'm gonna consciousness much assured and hopefully get better. It's been hard but we combat for the manager, we combat for the nine and you know, we each judge successful what helium wants to do.

"We're implicit the satellite with the 3 points [from their triumph implicit Brentford connected Sunday] and hopefully we tin conscionable footwear connected from here. We've got a batch of players to travel back, a batch of cardinal players, large players. Once they travel backmost it gives america the spot to footwear connected successful the season."

Tottenham are hoping to scope the Carabao Cup last for the archetypal clip since they lifted the trophy backmost successful 2008, portion Liverpool are the defending champions having beaten Chelsea 1-0 successful past year's final.

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