Two Liverpool gamers are liable to struggling a Carabao Cup suspension once they head to Southampton on Wednesday night time.
The Reds make the journey to Saints for a midweek quarter-final conflict, with Arne Slot anticipated to ring the modifications at St Mary’s.
Jarell Quansah and Wataru Endo are each more likely to begin the sport, however they are going to must be cautious of selecting up a yellow card.
If booked on this sport, they are going to miss the primary leg of the semi-final, ought to Liverpool proceed.
Kelleher & Liverpool’s penalty report bodes properly
Slot has confirmed that Caoimhin Kelleher will exchange Alisson on Wednesday night.
The Irishman has saved extra penalties in shootouts (6) than every other goalkeeper in Liverpool’s historical past, yet one more than Pepe Reina.
Kelleher saved three spot-kicks within the 2022 win over Derby and has gained 4 penalty shootouts with a 100 per cent successful report.
Liverpool have been concerned in 15 League Cup penalty shootouts, successful 11 of them, they usually have gained 20 of 27, in all competitions, together with every of the final 4.
Opening aim key at St Mary’s
Liverpool have led in 20 of their 23 video games performed this season, and have gained all 16 fixtures through which they’ve scored the sport’s opening aim.
The Reds have failed to attain in solely certainly one of their final 27 matches – the 1-0 dwelling defeat to Nottingham Forest again in September.
Just one dwelling workforce have prevented Liverpool from scoring since April 2023 – Everton in final April’s Merseyside derby.
Meaning they’ve scored in 43 of their final 44 matches performed away from Anfield.
A twentieth League Cup semi-final for Reds?
Liverpool are aiming to succeed in a twentieth League Cup semi-final on Wednesday night, which might be a report for the competitors.
In the meantime, that is their twenty sixth quarter-final within the event’s historical past.
That is the eighth time Liverpool and Southampton have been drawn collectively within the League Cup, which incorporates the semi-finals in 1987 and 2017.
Within the 2017 semi, Virgil van Dijk began for Saints within the first leg.
Saints a League Cup bogey facet
Southampton are the one workforce ever to beat Liverpool in each legs of a League Cup semi-final, stopping them from scoring within the course of.
They have been additionally the primary workforce ever to knock the Reds out of the competitors, successful 2-1 at Anfield in November 1960.
Saints have solely gained one of many final 15 conferences since successful 1-0 at Anfield in 2017, although.
That victory got here in January 2021 when former Liverpool participant Danny Ings scored the one aim in a house win.
This season’s scorers
Southampton: Archer 4, Harwood-Bellis 3, A. Armstrong 3, Aribo 2, Bree 2, Mateus Fernandes 2, Amo-Ameyaw 1, Dibling 1, Downes 1, Sugawara 1.
Liverpool: Salah 16, Diaz 9, Gakpo 8, Jota 5, Konate 2, Nunez 3, Szoboszlai 2, Van Dijk 2, Jones 2, Mac Allister 1.
* Stats courtesy of LFC statistician Ged Rea (@ged0407).
