Premier League Toppers Liverpool will be aiming to keep their acute dreams alive when they take on Southampton this Wednesday in an EFL Cup quarter-final clash.
Arne Slot arrives at this game after a 2-2 draw against Fulham in the Premier League.
Southampton, on the other hand, will be interim control for this clash, with Russell Martin sacked after the team suffered an embarrassing 5-0 thrashing to Tottenham Hotspurs on Sunday night.
Talking about the head-to-head encounters between these two teams in the League Cup, The Reds have had a slight edge over the hosts, winning four, while Southampton claimed three victories.
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The Sporting News analyzes the main key points before this confrontation, adding how to see the game, start schedules and the most recent news about alignment.
Here’s how to watch this EFL Cup in the United States:
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This EFL Cup clash takes place at the St. John’s. Mary’s Stadium in Southampton, England, and kicks off on Wednesday, December 18 at 8:00 p. m. local time.
This is how this era in the United States:
Rusk is expected to stick with Martin’s style of player rotation for EFL Cup matches with the club’s transparent precedence aimed at fighting relegation from the Premier League.
Aaron Ramsdale may return to the starting lineup with a wrist injury, but Gavin Bazunu, Will Smallbone, Juan Larios and Ross Stewart remain out. Defenseman Jack Stephens is serving the final game of a three-game suspension.
Southampton projected starting XI (4-3-3, right to left): Ramsdale (GK) — Bree, Harwood-Bellis, Sugawara, Taylor — Aribo, Fernandes, Ugochukwu — Fraser, Amstrong, Archer.
LESTRATE: Bazunu (Achilles), Stewart (calf), Smallbone (thigh), Larios (undisclosed). Suspended: Stephens.
Meanwhile, Slot’s strong point comes from defense, with Andy Robertson fulfilling a suspension of a party and Ibrahima Konate, Kostas Tsimikas and Conor Bradley all injured.
The graduate of the James Norris academy can be recruited on the left with possible games for Jarell Quanseh and Diogo Jota.
The Liverpool projected on 11 (4-3-3, from right to left): Kelleher (GK) -Alexander-Arnold, Quansah, Van Dijk, Norris-Mac Allister, Endo, Jones-Salah, Jota, Gakpo.
Injured: Tsimikas (ankle), Bradley (thigh), Konate (knee).Suspended: Robertson
The last time those two groups met in the EFL Cup was in 2017, when the Saints won the reds 1-0.
Southampton, meanwhile, are going through a bad run, with five defeats in their last six games. In their last meeting in November, the Saints suffered a 3-2 defeat in a Premier League clash.
The recent form makes Liverpool hot favorites to win the game.
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