Liverpool head coach Andoni Iraola.
Liverpool head coach Andoni Iraola.
Having faced Tottenham in the previous round of the Carabao Cup, Liverpool is now set to take on another Premier League side from London in the form of Chelsea.
Xabi Alonso and Jordan Henderson will return to Anfield with the Blues, and while both teams are expected to make some changes to their starting XIs, it should be an entertaining game. It will head straight to penalties if there is a tie in normal time.
"Straight after our game against Brighton on Sunday I was asked how happy I was that the team had made it four wins in a row and I said I was very happy," Andoni Iraola writes in the official matchday program.
"This is obvious of course but there is another side to winning that is also very important — it leaves you wanting more.
"It does not matter what competition we are playing in, what team we select or what the general situation is, we always want to win and that feeling only grows when you know what it means to earn a victory.
"It is also made bigger by the knowledge that in every game that we play our opponents will have exactly the same ambition and this will definitely be the case tonight when we play a very strong Chelsea team."
Follow all the action from Anfield with our live updates below. We'll bring you all the major events from the game as Liverpool hosts Chelsea in the Carabao Cup fourth round.
Key Events
Liverpool and Chelsea will both be aiming to put their names in the hat for the quarter-finals. The draw will take place after the final whistle. The next round is in the week commencing December 14.
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Welcome to our live coverage of today's Carabao Cup fourth round between Liverpool and Chelsea. We'll bring you all the key updates from the game right here as we go along.
Andoni Iraola and Xabi Alonso are expected to make changes to their starting XIs, but it should make for an interesting encounter.