Minute-by-minute report: Join Will Unwin for updates as the two heavyweights return to action in a fourth-round tie at the Etihad.
A Carabao Cup tie might be the calming influence everyone needs to avoid a bit of aggro. Palmer drives into the box and pulls the ball back from the byline but Gomez is in the right place to block the cross. “Bajetic and Milner, well the latter is forever young.” “FC Santa Claus is a football club from Rovaniemi, Finland that currently plays in the Vitonen, the sixth tier of the Finnish football league system. There is a jazzy light show at the Etihad. A classic of the genre. 12 minutes: Haaland just knows where the ball is going to end up when De Bruyne is in possession. I am 35 and I face an uphill battle to be at Milner’s level in 12 months. 16 mins: Elliott gets into space on the right, allowing him to cross for Nunez to sweep at shot at goal. The tickets are quite expense at a time when people cannot afford extras. They do not look recharged by the break, that’s for sure. 34 mins: Colin Stevens emails: “Surprised that City still have tickets available for sale for the Chelsea game in two weeks.
Manchester City and Liverpool meet in the League Cup in their first competitive match since the World Cup in Qatar. Follow all the latest updates.
1.5 hrs before kickoff: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News' live coverage of Manchester City vs. It could have been 6-4 City on the balance of the chances. 1 hr 15 mins before kickoff: An early blow for Liverpool, who will be without Roberto Firmino tonight due to a calf problem. You'd have put your house on him hitting the target. the flag was up for offside. This game getting bitty with all these late subs, but still plenty of time for the visitors to get back into it. Feisty end to the game. If VAR had been in place tonight, the red card might have got an outing there. The Norwegian is in behind from a Gundogan through ball but completely miscues on his left foot to send the ball high and wide of the goal. Liverpool put a rare spell of possession together before Matip squeezes a lovely pass in to Milner in the box and the Englishman squares it to tee up Carvalho for a simple sidefooted finish. De Bruyne swings in another beauty of a cross from the left and Ake steals in at the back post to nod it home. 1
Report and highglights as Man City knock out holders Liverpool from the Carabao Cup in a thrilling return to club football; Liverpool twice came from behind ...
A lot of people played the World Cup and there was a lot of emotion in that. We are out of the cup, which is disappointing and you want to go for every trophy available to you. I'm sure it was a good game for the neutral but for us it's disappointing to lose and go out of the cup. The short corner and the first two. The first 15 minutes, we really struggled and that kills the confidence and the conviction. "The goals were unnecessary, the rest was a difficult game for both teams. Overall, we were very good today and deserved to win. Then we had to change after the last session. We played a formation we are not used to playing. Hopefully, the club can take him, the game he played was exceptional." The way he played with and without the ball, we are lucky to have this player for the next decade. "We've just watched the World Cup final which will go down as one of the best games a lot of us have ever seen.
Get a report of the Manchester City vs. Liverpool 2022-23 English Carabao Cup, Fourth Round football match.
The technology is here, why shouldn't we use it?," Klopp asked. "We have VAR, the referees are used to VAR. [Nathan Ake](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/159248/Nathan-Aké) peeled off around the back to head the ball past goalkeeper [Caoimhin Kelleher](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/275599/Caoimhin-Kelleher). [Fabio Carvalho](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/231049/Fabio-Carvalho) equalised in the 20th minute, slotting home a pass from [James Milner](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/26843/James-Milner) past City goalkeeper [Stefan Ortega](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/151855/Stefan-Ortega). [Riyad Mahrez](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/163940/Riyad-Mahrez) that found the bottom corner of the goal. [Erling Haaland](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/253989/Erling-Haaland) continued where he left off before the World Cup break as he connected with [Kevin De Bruyne](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/134947/Kevin-De-Bruyne)'s cross to volley it into the net and give his side an early lead just 10 minutes into the match.
Watch the extended highlights from our Carabao Cup clash with Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium on Thursday.
[Download the Man City app](https://www.mancity.com/app) [Ake](https://www.mancity.com/players/nathan-ake)'s header just before the hour mark. [Erling Haaland](https://www.mancity.com/players/erling-haaland), Riyad [Mahrez](https://www.mancity.com/players/riyad-mahrez) and Nathan [Ake](https://www.mancity.com/players/nathan-ake) saw the Blues eventually come out on top, but it was an end to end fixture full of drama.