Liverpool sets up a match against Newcastle after having stagnated Tottenham – Firstpost

Liverpool overturned a deficit at first stage to reach the final of the League Cup (Carabao Cup) with a 4-0 victory against Tottenham on Thursday, increasing the pressure on the boss of the Ange Postoccolou spurs. Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai and Virgil Van Dijk were on the target for the Reds.

Liverpool remains on the right track for a quadruple in a first dream season for Arne Slot.

When is the Carabao Cup final?

Liverpool will face Newcastle in the League Cup final (Carabao Cup) on March 16 at the Wembley stadium in London.

Newcastle beaten Arsenal in the semi-finals.

They benefit from a six -point lead at the top of the Premier League, participated in the last 16 of the Champions League and visit the wrestlers of the Plymouth championship during the fourth round of the FA Cup on Sunday.

“Achieving a final should always be special,” said Slot. “It was a very good performance on our side.”

Postcoglou under pressure to spurs

The dryness of the Spurs trophy continues. Tottenham raised silverware for the last time in 2008 and Postcoglou has one more opportunity to keep his promise to win a trophy in his second season.

There is speculation that the Australian could be shown at the door if another moves away at Aston Villa in FA Cup on weekends with the 14th Language Spurs in the Premier League.

“We have abandoned a good opportunity tonight and we cannot get away from it,” said Postcoglou. “They were much better team. They were too good for us.

Although he has more glamorous titles to win, Slot has shown his desire to make the League Cup his first trophy as a Liverpool boss by appointing his strongest team bar available the usual rotation in the goal Cup competitions while Caoimhin Kelleher replaced Alisson Becker.

The new Signature Kevin Danso was forced directly from the defense tidy by Tottenham, while Mathys Tel also made his debut at the start of the bench after Richarlison covered the injured.

Liverpool had marked four in each of the two previous meetings between the teams in Anfield and repeated this feat to shed light on their 1-0 defeat north of London last month.

Liverpool onslaught

The local team had taken the first quarter to find their stride, but the pressure was built after Szoboszlai ran out of hand before sweeping the pass of Salah at home.

Since the next Egyptian delivery in the box, the Spurs have not escaped while Gakpo has broken the first to move as a top scorer in this season with five goals.

Antonin Kinsky kept Salah while waiting for his goal with a good backup a few moments later, but on the other side of the field, Richarlison was inclined to leave the postocoglou team.

Already without signing record of Dominic Solanke, Brennan Johnson, James Maddison, Timo Werner and Wilson Odobert in attack zones, Tottenham never seems capable of setting up the threat they needed to survive the assault de Liverpool.

The decisive blow occurred for five minutes in the second half when Kinsky rushed at his line, but was beaten in the ball by Darwin Nunez and caught the Uruguayan.

Salah ruthlessly sent the resulting penalty in the upper corner for its 26th goal of the season.

Gakpo and Ryan Gravenberch pulled the post while Liverpool set foot to kill the tie.

The killer’s third goal occurred 15 minutes when Connor Bradley, who excelled in the absence of the injured Trent Alexander-Arnold, played Szoboszlai to get home.

Van Dijk then exposed the difficulties to the Spurs to defend the sets while heading in the fourth of a corner to rub the salt in the injuries of visitors.

Newcastle looks at the end of their own 56-year expectation for a major trophy after an impressive 4-0 humiliation of Arsenal in aggregate in the other semi-final.

But the Magpies have the little enviable to stop the slot juggernaut if they do it.

With agency entries