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Newcastle waiting for the winners at Wembley

Matt Verri3 minutes ago

Liverpool have a deficit to overturn as they host Tottenham at Anfield tonight in the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final.

Lucas Bergvall’s first ever goal for Spurs proved the difference in the first leg, but Ange Postecoglou and his team still face an uphill task if they are to book their place in the Wembley final.

Liverpool are firm favourites to get the job done and maintain their bid to defend their Carabao Cup crown.

Follow all the action with Standard Sport’s LIVE blog below, featuring expert analysis from Dan Kilpatrick at the ground!

Liverpool vs Tottenham latest news

Kick-off time: 8pm on Thursday, February 6, 2025 How to watch: Sky Sports and ITV1 Liverpool team news: Kelleher and Jones start Tottenham team news: Danso debut; Tel on bench Score prediction39 seconds agoNo away goals rule

Unfortunately for Tottenham, the away goals rule is not in place in the Carabao Cup.

It means Liverpool know any one-goal win would take this to extra-time - anything better than that and they are heading to Wembley.

10 minutes agoIn the building!

Spurs have arrived at Anfield...

16 minutes agoDan Kilpatrick at Anfield

The biggest surprise in the Spurs line-up is a first rest for Pedro Porro since Boxing Day, with Archie Gray switching to right-back and new signing

Kevin Danso slotting straight in at centre-half.

Pape Matar Sarr is preferred to Lucas Bergvall, who scored the controversial winner in the first leg.

22 minutes agoTottenham team news

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

25 minutes agoLiverpool team news

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

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

36 minutes agoNot long now...

Around ten minutes to go until we get all the team news from Anfield.

Sounds like Curtis Jones could be starting for Liverpool, with changes too at right-back and in goal.

For Spurs, we’ll soon found how if Ange Postecoglou has opted to hand out a couple of debuts from the off.

48 minutes agoPostecoglou delivers Tel verdict

There have been suggestions that Mathys Tel is keen to play more as a central striker at Tottenham, but Ange Postecoglou has made it clear the teenager could be moved across the front three.

The Spurs boss said: “Oh mate, Archie wanted to be a central midfielder, so who knows where Mathys will end up.

If Liverpool get it, it’s tough to see how Tottenham can stop them.

But if Spurs can take a 2-0 lead on aggregate...

game on!

1 hour agoArsenal fall short

There will be no north London derby in the Carabao Cup final.

On a night when Arsenal needed goals, it ended up being their defence that let them down.

Just three days before the second leg of this Carabao Cup semi-final, Arsenal had shackled Erling Haaland and the Manchester City attack on their way to a 5-1 win.

But they were all over the place at Newcastle last night as Eddie Howe’s side booked themselves a place in next month’s final at Wembley.

It is difficult to remember a time when Gabriel and William Saliba have looked so shaky at the back and they, more than anyone in the Arsenal squad, will be glad to see the back of Newcastle and replace it with the sunshine of Dubai.

Alexander Isak tormented Arsenal’s centre-backs in the first leg and it was the same story, here.

Read more on that here!

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1 hour agoHow they could line up...

Predicted Liverpool XI (4-2-3-1): Alisson; Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Tsimikas; Mac Allister, Gravenberch; Salah, Szoboszlai, Gakpo, Diaz

Predicted Tottenham XI (4-3-3): Kinsky; Porro, Danso, Davies, Spence; Bentancur, Bissouma, Bergvall; Kulusevski, Son, Richarlison

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