Man City are New Carabao Cup Faves After Dumping Title-Holders Liverpool With Rested Erling Haaland | Watch Highlights
Liverpool will not be winning back-to-back Carabao Cups after Manchester City sent them home on Thursday with a dramatic 3-2 fourth round win for City at the Etihad. Man City advance to the quarterfinals, where they will face Southampton, with matches set to begin the week of Jan. 9.
Goals from Erling Haaland and Riyad Mahrez were cancelled out by equalisers from Fabio Carvalho and Mohamed Salah respectively before Nathan Ake sealed victory for City with a 58th-minute header.
Manchester City can equal Liverpool’s record of nine EFL Cup wins this season after eliminating last season’s winners from the competition.
With London giants Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham already out of the competition, the biggest threat to City winning the Carabao Cup once again appears to come from either Manchester United or Newcastle as the cup enters the quarterfinal stage.
But no matter who City must overcome if they are to win the cup at Wembley next February, manager Pep Guardiola and his men are clear favourites to extend their domination of the competition.
City have won five of the past seven Carabao Cups, with only Liverpool last season and United, in 2017, able to wrestle the cup from City’s clutches.
Since Guardiola took charge of City in the summer of 2016, the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach has guided the club to nine major trophies, including a domestic treble in 2018-19.
So the challenge facing the remaining clubs is obvious — they have to find a way of beating City.
Having not played since mid-November due to the World Cup shutdown, City’s performance against Liverpool was ominous.
They have such depth and experience, plus the goals of Haaland, that they already look unstoppable.
And with the FA Cup due to start in January, how long before we start talking about City chasing a quadruple again? It’s almost guaranteed.
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