CAPITAL ONE CUP FOURTH ROUND
Venue: Anfield
Date: Tuesday, 28 October
Kick Off: 20:00 GMT
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Venue: Anfield
Date: Tuesday, 28 October
Kick Off: 20:00 GMT
180px-Liverpool_FC.svg.jpg Liverpool vs Swansea City 200px-Swansea_City_AFC_logo.svg.png
Coverage: http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?...51&part=sports
TEAM NEWS
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers will make wholesale changes to the side that drew with Hull on Saturday.
Rickie Lambert is set to start, while youngster Jordan Rossiter may feature again after scoring in the last round.
Swansea manager Garry Monk will resist the temptation to rest a host of his first-team players.
Gerhard Tremmel is expected to replace Lukasz Fabianski in goal and Gylfi Sigurdsson may sit this game out after limping off against Leicester.
MATCH PREVIEW
The last time these two clubs met in the League Cup back in October 2012, Swansea produced a sensational performance to win 3-1 and reach the quarter-finals for the first time in their history, before famously going on to lift the trophy.
They will fancy their chances of a repeat performance at Anfield against a Liverpool side still desperately trying to find their form this season.
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Brendan Rodgers' side were again out of sorts against Hull on Saturday, but at least their much maligned defence managed to keep a clean sheet for only the second time in 13 matches this campaign.
This is Swansea's second successive tie against a Merseyside club having swept aside Everton in round three and manager Garry Monk, who was club captain when they won this trophy in 2013, says his side will be going all out to win.
"We have to take it [the League Cup] seriously," he said.
"It's a cup that we've done very well in in the past, having won it in recent history, and it's one that we'd like to do well in again.
"It's one that we're really excited about - we go up there with nothing to lose,"
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- Swansea have only won two of their 19 trips to Anfield in all competitions (D3 L14), but the most recent win was at this stage of the League Cup in October 2012 (the year they went on to win the competition).
- This is the 35th meeting between the sides. Liverpool have won 17 times, Swansea nine and there have been eight draws.
- Liverpool
- Brendan Rodgers won three of his five matches in the League Cup as Swansea manager (60%); he has won just two of five for Liverpool so far (40%).
- Liverpool's third round victory over Middlesbrough featured the highest scoring penalty shootout in League Cup history (14-13); Raheem Sterling was the only player to miss for the Reds.
- The Reds have not beaten a Premier League side in the League Cup at Anfield since October 2006 (4-3 v Reading).
- Swansea
- Swansea have only made it past the fourth round of this competition once in their history, but that was when they lifted the trophy in 2012-13.
- The Swans are unbeaten in four League Cup games against fellow Premier League sides (W3 D1).
- Wilfried Bony has scored four goals in his last three games for Swansea.
- Their win over Leicester on Saturday was their first victory in the Premier League since August.
- Midfielder Ki Sung-yueng has played in the last two League Cup finals, for Swansea in 2013 and Sunderland last season.