MatchCarabao Cup: 14 stats to know about Liverpool v Southampton

Finalists in three of the previous four seasons and winners a record 10 times, the Reds go again in the competition by hosting Championship side Saints at Anfield.

See our pick of facts and figures about the game below...

The teams met three times last season and Liverpool won them all, including a 2-1 victory in a Carabao Cup quarter-final tie at St Mary’s.

The Reds have won each of the last eight Anfield clashes between the clubs in all competitions, since a 0-0 draw in May 2017.

This is the ninth time the teams have been drawn together in the League Cup, which includes the semi-finals of 1987 and 2017.

Liverpool will attempt to win this trophy for a record-extending 11th time, having already appeared in 15 finals.

They require one goal to reach the landmark of 200 in all games against Southampton.

Rio Ngumoha could become the youngest Liverpool player ever to score in the League Cup. He would be 17 years and 25 days, eclipsing Ben Woodburn’s current record by 20 days.

Cody Gakpo scored five times in this competition last season and has nine goals in 12 League Cup appearances overall.

Jayden Danns scored his first Liverpool goals in a 3-0 home win over Saints in the Emirates FA Cup in February 2024, coming off the bench to net twice.

The Reds have gone on to reach the final in each of the last four seasons they have defeated Southampton in the League Cup. They lost at Wembley in 1987, 2016 and 2025, but won at Cardiff in 2003.

Thirty-nine years to the day of this game, Liverpool equalled the record for the biggest ever League Cup win when they defeated Fulham 10-0 at Anfield in the first leg of a second-round tie.

Southampton were the first team ever to eliminate Liverpool from the League Cup, winning 2-1 at Anfield in November 1960.

They have reached the third round by winning 1-0 at Northampton Town and then 3-0 at Norwich City.

This will be Saints’ fifth visit to Anfield since November 2021, each time with a different manager. Will Still follows Ivan Juric, Russell Martin, Nathan Jones and Ralph Hasenhuttl.

Adam Lallana is now first-team coach at Southampton. He played 178 times for Liverpool, scoring 22 goals, from 2014 to 2020 after joining from Saints.