Arsenal vs Liverpool Carabao Cup preview: How to watch, lineups, postponement, & prediction

Arsenal Predicted Lineup to Face Liverpool – Benjamin White in Midfield?

Arsenal: Ramsdale; Chambers, Holding, Gabriel, Tierney; White, Sambi, Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli; Lacazette

Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson; Henderson, Fabinho, Jones; Minamino, Firmino, Jota

Arsenal vs Liverpool Score Prediction

Home advantage, right?

If Arsenal were injury and Covid free then you’d back them to win this. The confidence gained from that unified and battling performance at Anfield will put them in great stead and taking both sides’ AFCON involvements out of the equation, on home soil this is one you’d back Arsenal to win.

They go into every ‘big’ game ready to play their football. It’s not as refined, as drilled or as second nature to them as Liverpool’s style is, but it offers genuine threat and it troubled the best team in the world earlier in the month prior to, of course, another red card.

It’s going to be an immense atmosphere at the Emirates with everything that has been going on since the previous tie coupled with the obvious point of this being one game away from a Wembley showpiece.

But the absences are worrying.

Whatever happens in terms of players coming back, there is still only one central midfielder to select from. Arsenal dug so deep they were halfway to New Zealand last time out with a midfield trio of Saka, Sambi and Martinelli, and as heroic as they did in that game, they can’t do so again since they won’t be operating in the deepest of low blocks.

Liverpool were off sorts in attacking sense in the first leg as they don’t have the same fluency without their African duo, but as also seen in that game, they pose such a threat in transition. Given Arsenal will be far more expansive than they were with ten men, that is where the danger is.

Especially with the thin squad Arsenal have.

Score Prediction: Arsenal 1-2 Liverpool (AET)