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THE fourth round of the Carabao Cup is on NOW! Arsenal have booked their spot in the quarter-final with a 2-0 win over Brighton and ten-man Chelsea held off a late Wolves comeback to win 4-3. Cup
Liverpool halted their domestic losing skid at five with an opportunistic 2-0 win over Aston Villa at Anfield on Saturday, returning to third on the Premier League table.
Liverpool’s head coach, Arne Slot, appeared to call Steven Gerrard out to his face for rejecting one of the club’s recent requests to their former captain. Slot cut a lot happier figure than he has of late, following his Liverpool side’s 2-0 victory over Aston Villa at Anfield, which ended a run of four successive Premier League defeats.
Man United won their previous league game before the international break and will look to pick up back-to-back wins in the Premier League under Ruben Amorim. The Red Devils have a great opportunity to not only get closer to Liverpool but to leap many teams in the Premier League table.
Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Mohamed Salah, Florian Wirtz, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai should all return. Meanwhile, Ryan Gravenberch is back in full training after missing the last three games with a twisted ankle sustained in the 2-1 home loss to Manchester United on October 19.