With home advantage, Liverpool started the match extremely excited. The home team concretized dangerous opportunities with the opening goal in the 28th minute. Receiving the ball from the middle, Szoboszlai calmly observed and then fired a long-range left shot into the away team’s net.

Liverpool also created a few more scoring opportunities in the rest of the first half but could not take advantage. The first 45 minutes ended with a 1-goal advantage for The Kop. In the second half, Liverpool created a rain of goals against West Ham. In the 56th minute, taking Nunez’s pass, Curtis Jones ran down and cleverly finished at a tight angle, increasing the score to 2-0 for The Kop.

 

In the 71st minute, Gakpo fired a dangerous shot from right in front of West Ham’s penalty area to score Liverpool’s third goal. 6 minutes later, Bowen’s flash of light helped the away team score a goal to shorten the score to 1-3. But in the 82nd and 84th minutes, Salah and Curtis Jones scored respectively, helping The Kop win 5-1 in the end.

Winning big against West Ham, Liverpool won the last ticket to the semi-finals of the English League Cup. The remaining 3 spots belonged to Chelsea, Fulham and Middlesbrough after the quarter-finals held yesterday.