Tottenham vs Liverpool LIVE: Carabao Cup result and reaction as Lucas Bergvall scores late winner
Tottenham 1-0 Liverpool: Bergvall’s late goal ensures Spurs take a lead into the second leg at Anfield.
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Your support makes all the difference.Lucas Bergvall struck an 86th-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-0 victory over Liverpool and a slender advantage after a cagey Carabao Cup semi-final first leg.
Spurs were without 10 players for this tie and had lost 6-3 to Arne Slot’s irresistible Premier League leaders last month, but turned the form table on its head - albeit with a touch of fortune.
Match-winner Bergvall was lucky to avoid a second yellow card for a late tackle on Kostas Tsimikas moments before he fired home his first goal for the club to earn Tottenham and Ange Postecoglou a much-needed win.
Postecoglou had faced external pressure after a nightmare run of form amid a horror injury crisis, which deepened with Rodrigo Bentancur forced off early amid worrying scenes, but his injury-hit team with debutant goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky managed to shut out Liverpool to head to Anfield next month with a narrow lead.
Relive the Carabao Cup action with our live blog below:
Tottenham 0-0 Liverpool
63 mins: Arne Slot has seen enough and calls for his big guns. He makes a triple substitution which sees Trent Alexander-Arnold, Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz all introduced in place of Conor Bradley, Diogo Jota and Cody Gakpo.
Can the changes inspire Liverpool to go on and win this game?
Tottenham 0-0 Liverpool
60 mins: Mo Salah takes a strange shot, or was it a cross, from the right edge of the box and forces an awkward moment of Antonin Kinsky.
The Tottenham goalkeeper is forces to juggle the ball on the line before bringing it under control.
Tottenham 0-0 Liverpool
57 mins: Chance!
Massive moment for Tottenham but they left Liverpool off the hook. Pedro Porro pushes up the pitch which allows Lucas Bergvall to press Alisson.
The goalkeeper misplaces a pass back to Porro who shoots towards the open goal only for Virgil van Dijk to block the effort. The ball bobbles back to Porro who checks to the right and dinks a second shot wide of the far post!
Tottenham 0-0 Liverpool
54 mins: Tottenham will feel they have a strong chance of winning this game as Liverpool aren’t at their best. The hosts need to string together a strong period of possession and put some added pressure on Alisson who has had a quiet half so far.
Tottenham 0-0 Liverpool
51 mins: Close!
Possibly the best chance of the game as Curtis Jones picks out Salah on the right side of the pitch. He cuts inside then floats a cross over to the back post where Cody Gakpo is free.
Gakpo leaps towards the ball but it skims over his head and out of play.
Tottenham 0-0 Liverpool
48 mins: Virgil van Dijk takes out Brennan Johnson in a heavy but fair challenge before a misplaced pass from Ryan Gravenberch forces Conor Bradley to send the ball out of play.
Just a little sign of Liverpool not quite communicating and clicking with each other.
Second half! Tottenham 0-0 Liverpool
Liverpool get the game restarted with no further changes to either team.
HT Tottenham 0-0 Liverpool
I think most people were expecting goals in this game but Ange Postecoglou has set Spurs up to be more secure defensively and Liverpool have been far from their best.
Arne Slot’s men tend to improve in the second half of games so Tottenham still have plenty of work to keep them at bay.
Rodrigo Bentancur stretchered off pitch after suffering head injury in league cup semi-final
Rodrigo Bentancur was forced off the pitch during Tottenham Hotspur’s Carabao Cup semi-final with Liverpool with a suspected head injury after an awkward landing as he attempted to reach a corner kick.
Tottenham won the first corner of the game in the seventh minute and as the ball was swung into the penalty area, Bentancur launched himself at it in the hopes of heading the ball towards goal.
He missed and landed hard on the ground seemingly knocking his head on the turf. The midfielder lay still as the set piece played out before his teammates urgently called for the medical team to intervene.
Rodrigo Bentancur stretchered off pitch after suffering head injury
The midfielder landed awkwardly on the ground attempting to turn the ball towards goal during a corner kick
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