Norwich City are in need of a confidence-boosting win when they face Liverpool in the third round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night. Here‘s all you need to know about the game...
Kick-off: It’s 7.45pm, at Carrow Road.
Extra-time: No – penalties if it is level at the end of normal time.
Is everyone fit?
Central defender Christoph Zimmermann is out with his ankle injury, Prezmysław Płacheta is still trying to shake off the effects of Covid and will return to first team training next week. Todd Cantwell misses the game due to personal reasons.
As far as Liverpool are concerned, Curtis Jones and goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher will start.
Thiago Alcantara, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Roberto Firmino and Neco Williams will not be involved.
Daniel Farke on Liverpool: “Once you have to play against the best teams in the world and we do this on league level and now we do this against Liverpool in the cup, we have to do this with full intensity,” he explained.
“For that I trust my whole squad. We have three games in seven days, and it is important to bring some recovered players on the pitch, but not to rest other players. It is more like to have players who can go with this intensity against the ball in order to be competitive."
Liverpool assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders: “If you want to talk about team selection, you have to understand our way, our identity, our culture - what already started a long time ago.
“We want to compete in each game and in these intense periods where you play each three days, it’s really important to, one, protect the players because it’s a high risk to play again and again and again.”
Odds
Sky Bet: Norwich win 4-1, draw 29/10, Liverpool win 3/5
The last time
City 0 Liverpool 3
(August 14, 2021)
The opening game of the season and Liverpool continued their domination of the Canaries. Diogo Jota put the Reds ahead on 25 minutes with Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah wrapping it up with goals in the space of nine second-half minutes.
Referee
Darren England: Last time in charge of a Canaries game was the 3-1 loss at Luton last December.
How can I watch?
The game is live on Sky Sports Main Event and Football, starting at 7pm. Plus you can follow all the action on pinkun.com
Any Covid instructions?
There may be some voluntary Covid-19 checks in place for the match, but these are not mandatory for entry.
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