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Wednesday 26 September 2018 18:43, UK
Jurgen Klopp is likely to rotate his squad as Liverpool host Chelsea in Wednesday's Carabao Cup third-round clash with Chelsea at Anfield, live on Sky Sports from 7pm.
Liverpool have won their opening seven games of a season in all competitions for the first time. This means Klopp's side have eclipsed the six wins achieved at the start of the 1961/62 campaign under Bill Shankly.
That run could be under threat against Chelsea, who are unbeaten in their last seven games against the Reds at Anfield - a run rolling back to a 4-1 defeat in the Premier League in 2012.
Chelsea have won this competition five times, second only to Liverpool, who are eight-time winners but have yet to win a trophy in Klopp's tenure.
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The two teams are set to meet again in the Premier League on Saturday and Chelsea assistant manager Gianfranco Zola says the Blues are greedy and want to win both games.
"Personally I think as Chelsea we want to win both of them if we can," he said. "The game on Saturday will be huge. It means a lot.
"It is an important game [tomorrow]. We are Chelsea FC and we want to play all of our games and try to win. We're going to take it seriously."
Simon Mignolet will replace Alisson in the Liverpool goal for his first appearance of the season.
Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk will be carefully assessed ahead of Wednesday's clash, but the Netherlands international is not expected to be risked as he recovers from a minor rib injury.
Dejan Lovren could replace Van Dijk in the Liverpool starting line-up. The Croatia international has trained four times and could make his first appearance since the World Cup final.
Dominic Solanke is in line to feature against his former club but the game may come too early for Adam Lallana (groin). Divock Origi is out.
Chelsea trio Pedro (shoulder), Antonio Rudiger (groin) and Ruben Loftus-Cheek (foot) are out of the trip to Anfield.
This is juicy isn't it, especially because they are playing each other in the Premier League at the weekend as well. Whoever loses this game will say the cup was not the priority and has no relevance to Saturday, and whoever wins will definitely use it going into that game.
Neither side will want to lose but I just think the depth of Liverpool this season will be what sees them through to victory at Anfield.
Don Goodman predicts: 2-1 (15/2 with Sky Bet)
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