Welcome to the Evening Standard’s live coverage of Aston Villa vs Liverpool in the Carabao Cup.
The hosts are hot-favourites for this tie with Liverpool not so much leaving their senior players at home, but fielding them for the Club World Cup in Qatar.
Aston Villa: Nyland, Elmohamady, Chester, Konsa, Taylor, Lansbury, Douglas Luiz, Hourihane, Jota, Kodjia, Trezeguet.
Substitutes: McGinn, Wesley, Grealish, El Ghazi, Guilbert, Kalinic, Hause.
Liverpool: Kelleher, Hoever, van den Berg, Boyes, Gallacher, Kane, Chirivella, Christie-Davies, Elliott, Hill, Longstaff (youngest starting XI in the club's history)
Substitutes: Clarkson, Norris, Winterbottom, Dixon-Bonner, Clayton, Bearne, Stewart.
For Villa the match presents their best chance of reaching the semi-finals since the 2012-13 season where they suffered a shock defeat to Bradford City over two legs.
This one must be settled tonight, however, and you can follow all of the action live on Standard Sport…
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TV channel and live stream information
The match will be shown live on Sky Sports' Premier League and Main Event channels, and is available via Now TV with a day pass on offer for £8.99.
Sky Sports subscribers can stream the match online via SkyGo and the SkyGo app.
