Arsenal 0-0 Liverpool LIVE! Carabao Cup match stream, latest score and goal updates today
Finally, we have reached the conclusion of Arsenal’s battle with Liverpool for a place in the final of the 2022 Carabao Cup.
Initially delayed due to Covid-19 cases within the Liverpool camp, the 0-0 draw at Anfield last week sets this game up nicely.
As valiantly as Arsenal defended at times, Mikel Arteta’s side will need to pose much more of an attacking threat on home soil if they’re going to make it into final.
Liverpool, meanwhile, will surely feel they’ve proven they can create plenty of clear cut chances against this Arsenal side having dominated the first-leg, albeit with the obvious caveat that Granit Xhaka was sent off reasonably early on.
READ MOREWith that in mind, it looks like the perfect cup tie. Two of the best teams in the upper echelons of the Premier League this season fighting it out for a place in the final, it should be quite the spectacle.
Follow all of the action LIVE with Standard Sport’s dedicated match blog. Simon Collings and Malik Ouzia will be providing updates.
13 mins: Tomiyasu slips and that allows Liverpool to break down their left. Jota has space to run into, he’s forced wide by White... but the Liverpool man wins a corner.
It’s his side’s first of the match. Arsenal briefly exposed after Tomiyasu lost his footing on the halfway line.
GOOO.... OFFSIDE! Matip turns in from the corner after Fabinho won the initial header, but he’s offside.
Alexander-Arnold is being run ragged by Martinelli right now and it is not often you say that about the England right-back. Liverpool have started slowly and, particularly out wide, they look vulnerable.
10 mins: Gabriel goes long to Tierney who has made a nice run down the left wing.
First-time cross into the box, but he’s stretching and can’t get much power on it. Matip across to easily clear.
8 mins: Great ball through to Smith Rowe and he has space to turn into before playing it wide to Martinelli.
Alexander-Arnold’s challenge doesn’t stop him, and Martinelli loops a ball into the box. Kelleher wins a free-kick as Saka barges into him.
Those little dinks over the wall from free-kicks right on the edge are so hard to pull off but Lacazette has very nearly nailed it there. Excellent start from Arsenal and the Emirates is fizzing.
5 mins: Odegaard and Lacazette the two standing over it for Arsenal.
It’s Lacazette... HITS THE BAR! Lovely clipped effort over the wall, but he’s denied by the woodwork.
4 mins: Not convincing defending as Lacazette brings it down and it bobbles around in the box. Three Arsenal players converge on the ball, but Alexander-Arnold’s clearance bounces back to Kelleher.
Arsenal straight back on the attack though, and Saka wins a free-kick right on the edge of the area. Great position.
3 mins: Martinelli runs at Alexander-Arnold, and the Brazilian wins the first corner of the night.
White makes the move towards the near post and it’s towards him, but he can’t flick it on and Liverpool get it clear. Comes back to Martinelli, and his cross is deflected behind for another corner. Good start from Arsenal.
2 mins: Arsenal pressing high right from the off as you’d expect, Lacazette charging in to close Kelleher down.
It’s Odegaard alongside Lokonga in midfield for the Gunners, with Smith Rowe just ahead of them. Odegaard wins it back for Arsenal after a comfortable spell of Liverpool possession.
Liverpool get us underway at the Emirates!