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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers will use this match as an opportunity to give his squad players a run-out.
Summer signing Luis Alberto is set to start, along with youngsters Raheem Sterling and Andre Wisdom.
Notts County boss Chris Kiwomya has fitness concerns over a host of players.
Captain Dean Leacock, Alan Sheehan, Enoch Showunmi and Danny Haynes all missed the home league defeat to Stevenage on Saturday.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
This is their first meeting in the League Cup.
Notts County have not won any of their last 12 matches against Liverpool, losing nine and drawing three.
They have failed to score in their last five trips to Anfield, losing each time.
Liverpool
They have won the League Cup eight times - all since their first victory in 1981 - which is more than any other club.
The Reds have not won any of their last three matches in the League Cup at Anfield (D2 L1).
Liverpool have kept clean sheets in their opening two Premier League games for the first time since August 2002. Only Manchester City (12) have kept more clean sheets than Liverpool in the top flight in 2013.
Notts County
Beating Fleetwood in the first round was their first victory in the competition since August 2010.
That win over Fleetwood is their only victory in five matches this season.
They are one of only five clubs to have received a red card in the League Cup so far this season.
Notts County: Bialkowski, Dumbuya, Liddle, Smith, Stevens, Bell, Labadie, Fotheringham, Campbell-Ryce, Arquin, McGregor. Subs: Coombes, Murray, Thompson, Spiess, Tempest, Boucaud, Nangle.
Good run and low drive from Sterling to put Liverpool 1-0 up.