Tottenham Hotspur

We take on the Reds at Anfield on Tuesday night after securing our third-round spot with a 5-1 win over Charlton Athletic last month.

Here’s all you need to know ahead of the cup tie on Merseyside...

What time does the match start?

Kick-off is at 8pm BST on Tuesday.

How can I watch the game?

Tuesday’s match will be shown free-to-air in the UK on ITV4. The game will also be live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football.

Supporters can also keep fully up-to-date with live text and audio commentary during the game on our Match Centre, while video highlights will be posted on official club channels from one hour after the full-time whistle.

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What is the team news?

Roberto De Zerbi told the media on Tuesday afternoon that Sandro Tonali won’t be involved after incurring a knock in Saturday’s goalless draw with Everton.

Destiny Udogie, however, is available after missing the game against the Toffees.

Pedro Porro was also held out of the Everton match and he remains absent for the Liverpool trip, joining Mykailo Mudryk, Dejan Kulusevski, Wilson Odobert and Xavi Simons on the sidelines.

As for Liverpool, their boss Andoni Iraola has confirmed that Giorgi Mamardashvili will start in goal, while Joe Gomez looks set to feature for the first time since picking up an injury in pre-season.

Conor Bradley, Federico Chiesa, Hugo Ekitike and Giovanni Leoni remain sidelined.

Who is the referee?

Andrew Madley will take charge of Tuesday’s tie at Anfield.

Wade Smith and Richard West will be his assistants, with Andrew Kitchen as the fourth official.

Which kits will the teams be wearing?

Liverpool will be wearing their usual all-red strip with their keeper in yellow.

We’ll change to our new 2026/27 away kit, featuring dark navy blue shirts with multicoloured patterns across the front, dark navy shorts and dark navy socks.

Our keeper will be in green.

What will the weather be like?

Light rain showers are forecast in Liverpool on Tuesday night. Temperatures should be around 15 degrees.

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The full-back missed the goalless draw against Everton on Saturday after starting at Nottingham Forest on 5 September.

However, Sandro Tonali misses out at Anfield - the midfielder has started all four Premier League matches so far, but was rested for our Carabao Cup second round win against Charlton.

Pedro Porro didn't make the matchday squad at the weekend and remains sidelined.

Speaking at his pre-match press conference at Hotspur Way on Monday, Roberto De Zerbi said: "(Dejan) Kulusevski is still not available, Pedro Porro is not available. Udogie - yes. Richarlison, you already know - nothing has changed for the Carabao Cup or Premier League, the situation is the same."

Roberto suggested in Saturday's post-match press conference that he was going to play with 'all other players' at Anfield.

Asked about this on Monday, he clarified: "No, the other players, I think Lucas Bergvall is not another player, Mathys Tel, also. Then we have to analyse also the other players, maybe the players who didn't play enough.

"I said I'm lucky because for the centre-back, for example, we have JP van Hecke and van de Ven, two top players, but Senesi, Ben Davies and Tosin are not less than van de Ven, and van Hecke, they are different, maybe. Now JP and van de Ven know better the connection, the style of play, but the level of the players is very, very close."

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In a competitive battle on Merseyside, we made it four points from our opening two games in the Women’s Super League as the Reds fought back to pick up a point at St Helens Stadium.

Signe Gaupset’s deflected cross gave us the lead at the break but Liverpool, who created a number of opportunities throughout the 90 minutes, found a leveller just before the hour mark and in truth, should have taken all the three points if it wasn’t for some fantastic saves from Lize Kop.

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We rode our luck at times in the first half as Liverpool carved out the better of the opportunities but, four minutes before the break, it was us that broke the deadlock when Signe Gaupset’s cross took a huge deflection and found the back of the net.

But Liverpool, who kicked off their season with a win at Charlton Athletic, found a leveller through substitute Aurielle Csillag just before the hour mark and in truth, they could have taken all three points but for some impressive saves from Lize Kop in the closing stages to ensure we left Merseyside with an important point.

Liverpool started on the front foot in the opening 10 minutes of their first home game of the campaign. After just 30 seconds in, the Reds had won a corner that saw the ball fall to Cornelia Kapocs on the edge of the box but she scuffed her effort wide while, a minute later, Ceri Holland curled low into the hands of Kop after a charging run forward from the halfway line before Natalia Ramos was unable to direct a header on target. We did have a half-chance ourselves in that period, but Drew Spence’s shot into the ground was dragged wide of the far post.

The game began to fizzle out, and we were dealt a blow on 25 minutes when Cathinka Tandberg was forced to go off after an awkward landing in a challenge and was replaced by Shekiera Martinez. Chances were few and far from both sides until four minutes left on the clock, as a bit of fortune saw us break the deadlock on Merseyside. Gaupset, on the far left of the box, tried to deliver a cross into the middle but the ball scooped off the leg of Kerr and looped over Khiara Keating and into the back of the net to hand us the lead at the break, albeit somewhat against the run of the play.

Despite being one-goal to the good, we still needed to step up our performance after the restart and Martinez came close to doubling our lead inside two minutes, curling narrowly wide of the post. However, the home side began to pick up where they left off with Holland continuing to be influential down the left-hand side, although she would be frustrated to have not found one of her team-mates in the middle of the box from the left of the byline. But, just before the hour mark, they managed to find an equaliser when Fuka Nagano’s cross from the right was headed home by Csillag who rose high to beat Kop to the ball.

With the momentum now in their sails, Liverpool began to ramp up the pressure in the final 20 minutes but we were indebted to a number of good saves from Kop to keep the scores level, first getting down low to push away Ramos’ low strike from distance before pushing substitute Alice Bergstrom’s fierce effort from the right of the box over the bar. Olivia Holdt was introduced with eight minutes left on the clock and nearly had the perfect introduction, but Khiara Keating was equal to her curling shot on her right-foot to push it away.

Kop then produced another key save just before the 90th-minute as Csillag was played through inside the box but our number one raced off her line and stood strong to block the Liverpool forward’s chance, and the last opportunity of the game as the referee blew his final whistle.

Line-ups

Liverpool: Keating, Fisk (c), Ramos, Kapocs, Nagano, Endemann (Bergstrom 78), Olsson (Csillag 46), Clark, Holland (Hobinger 65), Kerr, Bernabe. Substitutes (not used): Laws, Haug, Enderby, Woodham, Agrez, Trueman.

Spurs: Kop, Dijkstra (Morris 63), A. Nilden, Gaupset, Tandberg (Martinez 25), Vinberg (Holdt 82), Hanson (Ahtinen 82), Spence (c), Summanen (Pelova 63), Koga, Blakstad. Substitutes (not used): Panengstuen, M. Nilden, Wijk, Pierre.

Match data

Goals: Liverpool – Csillag 59; Spurs – Kerr 45+4.

Yellow cards: Spurs – Summanen 57, Blakstad 65.

Referee: Adewunmi Soneye.

Venue: St Helens Stadium.

Weather: Sunny, 20 degrees.

Attendance: 2293.

Martin Ho has named an unchanged starting XI which started in our opening-day 3-1 victory over West Ham United last time out.

Caitlin Dijkstra continues in the backline after her impressive debut last weekend at Brisbane Road, while Toko Koga is fit and available to start from the off despite being substituted in the London derby.

Forward Kirsty Hanson will also be looking to build on her excellent start to life at Spurs after her double in the win over the Hammers.

Starting XI: Kop, Dijkstra, A. Nilden, Gaupset, Tandberg, Vinberg, Hanson, Spence (c), Summanen, Koga, Blakstad.

Substitutes: Panengstuen, Morris, Holdt, M. Nilden, Martinez, Ahtinen, Wijk, Pelova, Pierre.

Here's how Liverpool line-up...

Starting XI: Keating, Fisk (c), Ramos, Kapocs, Nagano, Endemann, Olsson, Clark, Holland, Kerr, Bernabe.

Substitutes: Laws, Haug, Enderby, Hobingerm Woodham, Agrez, Bergstrom, Csillag, Trueman.

Here's what he had to say...

You started with such a fast, strong tempo – why did that not translate into goals?

Roberto: "I am honest, I am always honest with you because when we play bad, I say we played very bad but when I come in press conference, 99 per cent I am honest, like with the players and like with the club. I said we started this season late in many, many reasons and too late, many players at the World Cup, many injuries, many problems in Australia - Mateus Fernandes, Micky van de Ven, Dominic Solanke and for not our responsibility or our club responsibility. We bought two players late, Savio and Marmoush, and I started to work with this group not last Thursday, two Thursdays ago. So, I think we have not the right physical condition, yet. I think we played very well the first 30 minutes and then maybe the energy, maybe the fact we didn’t score, maybe we lost in some players a little confidence. We have to be not positive, but realistic. If we extend that part of the game 30 minutes to 60, 70, 80 and 90, in my opinion, for my belief, we are going to win many games. We have to improve in the last third of the pitch, for sure. The last decision, the last pass. We have to shoot more times especially when we have space and time to do, we have to do with the right spirit, but I can’t say nothing bad, because I know how the players are working, I think we are in the right way. It’s tough to explain, because four games without goals is tough to accept. We are sorry for the fans, but the fans, they went behind the players. When the players in the first 30 minutes, they played very well, it was a hot, hot stadium and then everyone like me, like every fan inside of Tottenham or the people inside of the club, we were sad because 75 times in the goal area and not shoot enough to explain the quality of the play we did. Also in the second half. I watch many, many games where the winning team created less than us in the second half. What is the problem? The problem is the goal and the most important problem is the players have to be focused on the first 30 minutes and the improvements we can do and we have to do - not about social media, not about the journalist because today if we had won, now we stay in different way, with smile, great first half, great spirit in the second half and great, great, great but the result changes the opinion, in my opinion, no? Because I am a coach and not a journalist or a fan."

At the full time whistle you went over to Tel, it looked like you were coaching him, what did you say?

Roberto: "Yes, I coached him on the pitch. What did you understand?"

I was trying to work it out...

Roberto: "The body shape. He is a striker and the striker can play with the shoulder on the goal. If we are playing with Maddison, Kudus and Savio, he has to play as a striker and the striker has to look at the goal or the cross from Robertson. He has to stay inside because he started as a striker eh? Now he is playing as a winger, but he started his career as a striker, but I love Mathys as a player, as a guy and there is not a problem."

You talk about the confidence of the players being an issue - how much is the fact that they haven’t scored playing on their minds?

Roberto: "I think there is a word in Italian that literally translates as if we 'unblock' ourselves. I think the team is extremely strong and we can score goals, and we can win games. Then we have to respect the history of the players in their careers. Forget Solanke or Marmoush. The other players, they didn't score many, many goals in their career and we have to find these goals. I think we can find the goals with the quality of the play, with the full-backs, because we have great full-backs. Robertson today played very well. I don't know if we believe on the cross and we prepared the game exactly in that way."

When you say 'unblock' ourselves in Italian, do you mean a mental block?

Roberto: "A mental block, because four games, no wins, any goals scored. It is tough also for the players because they are human and they are very good guys, and I asked them to follow me because if last season I was positive, I can't understand why I cannot be the same this season. In Italy, for example, now I should be the best coach, no? Two games, two clean sheets. Two clean sheets? Tomorrow, what will you write? Clean sheets or no goals? Explain to me what you want. I'm right, I guess."

You said you're late, but you're very late now. It's five games in, so I guess some people will say it sounds a bit like excuses - pre-season, World Cup, new signings - as other clubs have the same thing...

Roberto: "First of all, four games, not five, after Aston Villa it will be five games."

You played in the cup as well...

Roberto: "But yes, 5-1 and we scored five goals against Charlton. We won by scoring five goals. So we speak about the Premier League, it's four games. I think the people and the fans, I think they already understood if I take an excuse or not. I came last season when the was like this, you know? I've always been, not positive, but realistic. Now I explained, I'm sorry for the results, but it's not immediate, no? Not the improvement, not immediately to make a team. Today we played as a team. We didn't score, we didn't win, but today and Nottingham I think we played as a team. I can't say nothing as an attitude, as a behaviour of the players, no. I said to stay calm, maybe to not lose the confidence because we are not scoring, we are not winning. Stay calm, improve, work hard and individually try to understand where is the improvement, no? I spoke with Mathys Tel just at the end of the game to explain what was his position today."

How far away are Tottenham from being at their best, physically?

Roberto: "I don't know. Now we play Tuesday in Liverpool and we play with all other players, but it will be a very important game for us. We can improve playing in the games, we can improve during the week. I think Rodrigo Bentancur, he came late after the World Cup and he's crucial for us. I didn't want to change him today, but I thought maybe he finished his energy in that moment of the game. Sandro Tonari, for example, played better in the second half. Robertson, JP van Hecke, they stayed directly for the first period of the pre-season. Micky van de Ven suffered an injury in Australia. Domi Solanke, the same. Maddison, the same. Savio and Marmoush, they came 10 days ago. Mateus Fernandes suffered an injury in Australia. He lost 15 days and it's not so quick."

We made an electric start but couldn’t capitalise on openings and half-chances and although we finished with 14 efforts at goal, we only seriously tested Jordan Pickford once in the Everton goal, a fine save low down to his left to turn away Lucas Bergvall’s shot from 20 yards in the second half.

Speaking to us on SPURSPLAY afterwards, Roberto reflected: “We are sorry for the result. We are sorry because the target was to play 90 minutes like the first 30 minutes, but we are not in the best physical condition yet.

“Then, we didn't shoot and we didn't create enough chances for the quality of the play, the command of the game we had on the pitch. We could shoot more times for goal. We made many wrong decisions in the last third and we have to stay more focused, more calm, I think, and improve where we have a gap to improve.

“It's the confidence now because we didn't score. Maybe some players could think in a negative way, but I think no, because we have to be focused on the performance, and the performance said we played 30 minutes very well. We have to extend the 30 minutes in 90, 80, 70 and to play like this. Then, if we keep the same quality of the play and if we improve the last decision, individual decision, collective decision, but more individual, I think we're going to win many, many games.”

It means we have yet to score in the competition after four games of the campaign but did pick up another point from a game of few clear-cut chances at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with just five shots on target across the whole contest.

The opening 10 minutes were played almost exclusively in Everton’s half as we made a fantastic start, but failed to take any of the big chances we created. Five minutes in, Andy Robertson clipped a free-kick to the back post which Jan Paul van Hecke half-volleyed over the crossbar – it would prove to be one of our best chances of the game – before Mateus Fernandes saw a shot well blocked by Jarrad Branthwaite with Archie Gray also seeing one from distance blocked. Fernandes was then in again, picked out with a lovely pass but the midfielder seemed to lose his footing before the chance disappeared.

Having not taken our opportunities, we allowed the visitors to grow into the game and, after Ainsley Maitland-Niles drilled wide from distance, Everton had a spell of possession in and around our box although Antonin Kinsky wasn’t unduly troubled. The remainder of the half was fairly even although we had the better attacking moments without making the most of them, Robertson’s excellent overlap picked out by Omar Marmoush, only for the final ball to be cut out by Pickford an example. The only shot on target in the first period came two minutes into stoppage time and it went the way of the Toffees, James Garner’s arrowed low free-kick to the back post well pushed away by Kinsky as we went in goalless at the break.

Having been the better team at the start of the game, it was our visitors who opened the second half on top and we were fortunate not to concede when Thierno Barry got on the end of Tyrique George’s cross to the far post and only Kinsky’s face prevented the ball from going in. Rodrigo Bentancur was then in the right place to block George’s fierce shot from a cleared corner with 54 minutes on the clock.

Just after the hour we made a triple change with Mohammed Kudus, Mathys Tel and Lucas Bergvall replacing Fernandes, Dominic Solanke and Bentancur but almost conceded immediately. Kinsky’s pass out to Tonali was intercepted by Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall just 20 yards out although, to be fair to the Czech goalkeeper, he was quickly off his line to smother the Everton player’s shot.

As the game entered the final 20 minutes, there was real tension in the air with the contest so finely poised, the feeling inside the stadium that just one goal would probably win the match. It almost fell Everton’s way in the 75th minute, Dewsbury-Hall with the perfect cut-back to Brennan Johnon but the former Spur side-footed well over the bar.

We searched for a winner in the final stages, Tonali looking like a chance had opened up for him 20 yards out only for his shot to be blocked before Gray headed a Savio cross over the bar with four minutes left. Pickford then made a superb save, diving low to his left to tip away Bergvall’s 25-yard effort, just our second shot on target in the game, and the last opportunity as the final whistle sounded soon after.

One note to make was the late introduction of Tosin Adarabioyo, who replaced Gray for his debut following his arrival from Chelsea on deadline day last week.

Line-ups

Spurs (4-2-3-1): Kinsky, Gray (Tosin 85), van Hecke, van de Ven (c), Robertson, Tonali, Bentancur (Bergvall 63), Savio, Fernandes (Kudus 63), Marmoush (Maddison 77), Solanke (Tel 63). Substitutes (not used): Dubravka, Senesi, Davies, Gallagher.

Everton (4-2-3-1): Pickford, Maitland-Niles (O'Brien 75), Tarkowski (c), Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Garner, Armstrong, Dewsbury-Hall, Johnson (Hackney 75), George (Grealish 65), Barry. Substitutes (not used): Travers, King, Keane, Dibling, Alcaraz, Graham.

Match data

Yellow cards: Everton – Dewsbury-Hall, Garner.

Referee: Darren England.

Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Weather: Light cloud, moderate breeze, 21 degrees.

Attendance: 60,477.

Roberto De Zerbi makes four changes to the team that started at Nottingham Forest last weekend with Dominic Solanke coming in for his first league start of the season, joining Andy Robertson, Mateus Fernandes and Archie Gray who come in from the off.

Mathys Tel moves to the bench which also features a returning James Maddison, Ben Davies and a maiden involvement for deadline day signing Tosin Adarabioyo.

Here’s the team in full…

Starting XI: Kinsky, Robertson, van Hecke, Gray, Tonali, Savio, Fernandes, Solanke, Marmoush, Bentancur, van de Ven (c).

Substitutes: Dubravka, Tosin, Senesi, Gallagher, Maddison, Tel, Bergvall, Kudus, Davies.

The visitors line-up as follows...

Starting XI: Pickford, Maitland-Niles, Branthwaite, Tarkowski (c), Dewsbury-Hall, Barry, Mykolenko, George, Johnson, Garner, Armstrong.

Next up, we're back in Tottenham for a 5.30pm Premier League clash against Everton on Saturday - David Moyes' side on the back of a thrilling 2-2 draw against Manchester United last weekend...

Harrison Armstrong

A box-to-box midfielder with 57 senior appearances under his belt already at the age of 19, Armstrong made his mark for Everton in the second half of last season after being recalled from a loan spell at Preston. Standing just over 6ft tall, he also has a physical presence for his age. He played 17 times for the Toffees in the Premier League last term and was named the club's Young Player of the Season. Capped by England at youth level.

Jack Grealish

Classic 'old-fashioned' winger who needs little introduction, Grealish burst onto the scene at Villa before a high-profile move to City in 2021. He won the lot at City, including the treble of Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 2022/23 - he made 50 appearances that season. Usually playing off the left, Grealish has plenty of tricks up his sleeve, always willing to take his man on, can turn both ways and has the strength to bounce off tackles - a bit like Gazza, or Mousa Dembele, he will almost welcome that contact to get away from opponents. He has 63 goal involvements in 212 PL appearances, capped 39 times by England.

Hayden Hackney

Still only 24, but approaching 200 senior career appearances, Hackney came through Middlesbrough's youth system, eventually playing over 150 times for the Championship club. His performances stepped up in the last two seasons where he's been a model of consistency - 85 appearances, 11 goals - earning him the Championship's Player of the Season award for 2025/26. A trademark David Moyes purchase out of the Championship (think Cahill, Jagielka, Lescott and Bowen down the years), Hackney adds poise and physicality alongside Armstrong in the central areas, great on the ball from the base of midfield, making Everton tick. Capped by England Under-21s.

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