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Arne Slot during the Carabao Cup semi-final second-leg match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on February 6, 2025(Image: Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)

Liverpool are headed for Wembley once more.

Arne Slot's side emphatically dispatched Tottenham at Anfield on Thursday night to set up a Carabao Cup final meeting with Newcastle United as they look to defend the trophy they won in such dramatic circumstances last season.

Goals from Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai and Virgil van Dijk saw the Reds easily overcome a 1-0 deficit from the first leg to ease themselves into what will be Slot's first final at the helm.

And the performance impressed the watching national media at Anfield.

Here's what they had to say about the latest victory for Slot's men.

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Paul Joyce, writing in The Times, was in awe of the Liverpool 'juggernaut' as they overcame Tottenham with ease.

He writes: "Afterwards, Postecoglou lamented that the side sitting 14th in the Premier League did not reach their “levels” and there is always a temptation to trash the losers and correlate an inability to create chances with a lack of fortitude.

"But, seriously, imagine playing against this Liverpool team.

"In the 93rd minute, with many of the disappointed Tottenham supporters having long since headed for the exits, Dominik Szoboszlai was chasing back when he might have taken a breather.

"It was a moment that summed up the machine Slot has created, a juggernaut in which everyone plays their part without the slightest threat of an ego getting in the way."

The Telegraph's Chris Bascombe believes Slot's impact at Liverpool this season may actually have been overlooked, with complaints about the fixture list misguided.

He writes: "And yet not for the first time, for all the praise, there are likely to be caveats.

The periods of control are more sustained, opponents barely landing a jab."

In The Guardian, Andy Hunter argues that Arne Slot may have had a more difficult challenge than Ange Postecoglou after taking over from Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool.

He writes: "In many ways Slot faced a more ominous challenge than Postecoglou at the start of this campaign, although the talent he inherited from Jürgen Klopp tipped the scales back in his favour.

A Wembley debut awaits."

Former ECHO journalist Beth Lindop, writing for ESPN, argued that Cody Gakpo was the Liverpool poster boy as the Reds proved to be up for the cup at Anfield.

She writes: "Slot had commented pre-match about his excitement for his first knockout tie at Anfield, and Liverpool delivered both on and off the pitch, with Gakpo's opener sending the home support into a fist-pumping, scarf-swirling frenzy.

They didn’t work Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimihn Kelleher all night."

And finally, writing in his match verdict, the ECHO's very own Paul Gorst says that Slot has a new Liverpool anthem to savour after guiding the Reds to their first final.

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He writes: "Arne Slot has been introduced to all manner of Liverpool anthems that tap into the club's rich history since his Anfield arrival last summer.
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