Hull vs Newcastle: As it happened after Liverpool beat Leeds
Updates from Tuesday's EFL Cup quarter-final ties
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Your support makes all the difference.Welcome to The Independent’s live blog of Tuesday night’s EFL Cup quarter final ties as Liverpool welcome Leeds to Anfield and Newcastle, the only other non-Premier League side left in the tournament, travel to Hull.
It will be the first meeting between Leeds and Liverpool since the 2009 League Cup game at Elland Road, which Liverpool won 1-0. History is against the Whites with it having been 15 years since Leeds beat the Reds, and 21 years since they did it at Anfield.
- Philippe Coutinho, Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana are all expected to be missing for Liverpool due to injury
- Leeds have only lost one of their last seven games in all competitions
- Hull City, 18th in the Premier League, are only three places above Newcastle, top of the Championship, in the Football League ladder
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EFL Cup quarter-final fixtures:
Tuesday:
Liverpool vs Leeds United
Hull City vs Newcastle United
Wednesday:
Arsenal vs Southampton
Manchester United vs West Ham United
Welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of Tuesday night’s EFL Cup quarter finals.
Liverpool host Leeds at Anfield in the headline fixture of the evening, the first time the sides have met since 2009, which was also in the League Cup.
The Reds won that 1-0 at Elland Road, and you will have to go all the way back to 1995 for the last time Leeds managed a victory at Anfield against Liverpool.
Jurgen Klopp is has already confirmed he will be without Philippe Coutinho, who suffered ankle ligament damage and will be out until the new year, as well as Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana, who both missed the weekend victory over Sunderland.
Roberto Firmino is a doubt for the game having limped off against Sunderland with a calf injury and Klopp admitted he would have to assess him in training.
In the evening’s other fixture, Hull will be without Ryan Mason and Sam Clucas through illness and suspension respectively, with Andrew Robertson and Adama Diomande set to deputise.
Newcastle are also likely to make changes with Grant Hanley and Jack Colback set to return from shin and eye injuries.
Both games kick off at 7.45pm GMT.
Just 30 minutes until kick off and look who's here! Enjoying his retirement or doing some scouting ahead of a potential Liverpool role...?
Klopp has taken a bit of a gamble tonight in playing the likes of Sadio Mane, considering the injuries to the rest of his attackers. Will it backfire?
It's been 12 years since Leeds were last a Premier League team but Garry Monk has taken them to the play-off places this season. Plenty of Leeds fans are adamant this could be the season for their return, and what a statement to make if they are to beat the Reds tonight.
The teams are on their way out at both the KCOM and Anfield, where the focus of tonight's blog will mainly be. Lucas, Liverpool's longest-serving player still at the club, is captaining the Reds in place of Jordan Henderson.
Liverpool and Leeds players are gathering in the middle of the pitch for a minute silence for the 75 victims of the Colombian plane crash that carried Chapecoense players, staff and journalists.
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