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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. Caoimhin Kelleher starts in goal tonight, with Conor Bradley and Curtis Jones also in the side. As for Spurs, the injury crisis is not improving. Radu Dragusin has been ruled out with an ACL injury, Micky van de Ven is a doubt and Cristian Romero has been ruled out. Kevin Danso therefore comes straight in for a debut, while Mathys Tel is on the bench.

The winner of this tie will face Newcastle in the final at Wembley, after the Magpies eased to a dominant 4-0 aggregate win over Arsenal to keep their hopes of ending a long trophy drought alive. Follow all the action with Standard Sport’s LIVE blog below, featuring expert analysis from Dan Kilpatrick at the ground!

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Bradley: We need to be better with the ball

Conor Bradley starts tonight, with Trent Alexander-Arnold struggling with a thigh injury.

The 21-year-old has been giving his pre-match thoughts, admitting Liverpool have to be much better on the ball tonight.

"Disappointed to get beat 1-0 [in the first leg] and we need to ready for tonight,” Bradley said.

“Hopefully, we can work hard and get a result to go with it.

"We need to be better with the ball. At Tottenham, we didn't keep the ball that well, but hopefully we can overturn that 1-0 deficit.”

10 minutes ago

No 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.

19 minutes ago

In the building!

Spurs have arrived at Anfield...

25 minutes ago

Dan 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. Mathys Tel starts among the substitutes but I'm sure we'll see him at some point.

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

32 minutes ago

Tottenham team news

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

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

34 minutes ago

Liverpool 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

46 minutes ago

Not 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.

58 minutes ago

Postecoglou 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.

“Look, he's got the attributes to play, I think, as a nine for sure, but he's played wide really successfully as well.

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1 hour ago

Atmosphere building...

Fans are starting to arrive at Anfield ahead of a huge night.

You do feel the first goal is particularly important tonight. 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 ago

Arsenal 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.