Five from five at Anfield, and Chelsea are out
Liverpool 1–1 Chelsea (6–5 on penalties) at Anfield on Wednesday, and your team are in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals (2) (7). No goals in normal time, then the shootout went your way (2) (12).
Cody Gakpo and Morgan Rogers traded the goals, with Alexis Mac Allister and Florian Wirtz involved in the build-up (2) (7). Andoni Iraola made seven changes and it worked (4). Alexander Isak and Kostas Tsimikas came through it, and Bradley Barcola was in the mix too (4) (9).
Bournemouth at Anfield in the last eight
Bournemouth come to Anfield in the quarter-finals, in the week starting Monday 14 December (1) (5) (11). That is your reward for the Anfield win, and it lands between a heavy run of league and European games.
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Iraola is not pretending it is a nice draw. He faces his former club: "Only team that I don't want" (1). He also said it will be "special" to come up against Bournemouth (1).
Trent back? The Spanish press says maybe
Real Madrid are struggling to make Trent Alexander-Arnold work, and Spanish reports have Liverpool preparing a €23m January offer to bring the right-back home (13). He left a few months ago (13). That is the whole story so far.
Brunner on the radar
Liverpool are watching Paris Brunner at AS Monaco, a 20-year-old attacker on seven goals in eight games this season (8). Monaco value him around €30m and PSG are circling too (8). The Reds have signed Hugo Ekitiké and Bradley Barcola in recent windows (8).
Van Dijk replacement talk, and an exit
Reports link Liverpool with a $133m defender as a possible long-term answer for Virgil van Dijk, with a January departure from Anfield also being floated (3).
Arsenal on Sunday
Liverpool sit fourth on 15 points from eight games, and Arsenal come to Anfield on Sunday 1 November at 17:30 CET (fixtures). Fenerbahce away in the Champions League follows on Wednesday 4 November, then Crystal Palace away on Sunday 8 November.
Fan reactions
Kop regulars are enjoying a fifth straight home win and the shootout nerve, but several are pointing at Jordan Henderson's reception and asking why a Chelsea side with Cole Palmer, João Pedro and Emmanuel Emegha could not score in 90 minutes. The Trent return story is the one splitting opinion most. Match thread
