Liverpool vs West Ham LIVE: Carabao Cup result and final score after Curtis Jones doubles up in thrashing
Liverpool 5-1 West Ham: The Reds found their clinical touch and thrashed the Hammers after goals from Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah and a brilliant double from Jones
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Your support makes all the difference.Liverpool cruised into the Carabao Cup semi-finals as the nine-time winners thrashed toothless West Ham 5-1 at Anfield.
The Reds were much improved from their blunt display in Sunday’s stalemate with Manchester United and dominated throughout, with goals from Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah and a brilliant double from Curtis Jones.
West Ham boss David Moyes belatedly brought on Lucas Paqueta and James Ward-Prowse with his side three goals down and Jarrod Bowen pulled one back with the visitors’ first shot on target.
But Salah came off the bench to deny any hopes of an unlikely comeback before Jones added his second after a wonderful run and finish. Jurgen Klopp’s side now join Chelsea, Fulham and Middlesbrough in the semi-finals as the Reds await the results of the Carabao Cup draw.
Follow all the live updates from Anfield in the blog below and get the latest odds and tips here.
Liverpool 0-0 West Ham
15 mins: Chance! Harvey Elliott come close to opening the scoring for Liverpool with a strike from the edge of the box. He hits it well enough but curls the effort just over the top.
Virgil van Dijk then clears the danger from the middle of the pitch as Liverpool press high.
In the process he picks out Dominik Szoboszlai out on the right wing who keeps the ball in play and lifts a cross to the far side of the box.
Darwin Nunez leaps towards the ball, meets it in the air and nods his effort wide of the nearest post.
Liverpool 0-0 West Ham
12 mins: Tsimikas looks to deliver a cross from the left wing and whips the ball into the box with Nunez and Gakpo being the available targets.
Konstantinos Mavropanos sticks out his leg to turn the ball behind for a corner but Liverpool are unable to create anything from the set piece.
Liverpool 0-0 West Ham
9 mins: Liverpool are seeing a bit more of the ball now. Harvey Elliott picks it up off Wataru Endo who drives the ball into the left side of the box.
He decides to go for goal and lets fly but pushes his left-footed strike wide of the far post!
Liverpool 0-0 West Ham
6 mins: Dominik Szoboszlai creates the first chance for Liverpool. Virgil van Dijk takes a quick free kick to send the midfielder running towards goal.
West Ham are stuck on their heels and try to back track as Szoboszlai gets to the edge of the box. He shoots but strikes his effort straight into Darwin Nunez who’s provided an option inside the box.
The ball bounces off the forward and the Hammers clear their lines.
Liverpool 0-0 West Ham
3 mins: Vladimir Coufal brings the ball down the right wing but is clipped by Kostas Tsimikas and wins a free kick. The Hammers send it back to Alphonse Areola in goal who sweeps it over to the opposite side of the pitch.
It’s bee a slow start as both teams look to be finding their feet.
Kick off! Liverpool 0-0 West Ham
Pablo Fornals gets the ball rolling in this Carabao Cup quarter-final tie with West Ham attacking the Kop end. He sends it back to the defence but an attempted cross field pass is booted out of play on the right wing.
Liverpool vs West Ham
Here come the teams.
Virgil van Dijk leads out Liverpool and looks determined to take the Reds into the last four. West Ham have been in decent form but David Moyes has never won at Anfield so things will be difficult.
Can the Hammers earn a shock win tonight?
Liverpool vs West Ham
Two of last night’s three quarter-finals went to penalties with Fulham and Chelsea prevailing to book a semi-final spot. Should tonight’s clash at Anfield end level after 90 minutes then a penalty shootout will decide who completes the final four line-up.
Liverpool vs West Ham
Caoimhin Kelleher and Joe Gomez, each with 11, have made more appearances for the Reds in the League Cup than any current player.
David Moyes on his team selection
West Ham boss David Moyes spoke about his team selection tonight and said is was a difficult decision to rest players: “It is the fixtures, really.
“With how well the players have done in Europe, we’re trying to keep everybody ready if we can for this period. We’ve got Nayef Aguerd and Maxwel Cornet ill, and Aaron Cresswell was ill with it but he’s better so he’s back on the bench.
“It’s Liverpool we’re playing so it doesn’t matter when we come here, whether it be a cup or a league game, it’s an incredibly difficult game.
“We’ll go about the job tonight and we know we have to try and win it, either in normal time or through penalties, we need to try and do it to get through in the cup. We had a great result getting through against Arsenal so we’ll see if we can top it tonight.”
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