Reds draw Stoke in semi-final

Everton v Man City
Stoke v Liverpool

1st leg at the Britannia week of 4th January
2nd leg at Anfield 3 weeks later.

Suppose it's a more straightforward tie with Stoke, but the way we work now, I wouldn't be too bothered if we had got City or the blues.

Debuts for Reus, Gundogan and Hummels then

Debuts for Reus, Gundogan and Hummels then

won't get in the team mate

Got a sneaky feeling it's going to be Mersey side Derby final.

Suppose it's a more straightforward tie with Stoke, but the way we work now, I wouldn't be too bothered if we had got City or the blues.

I genuinely wasn't bothered who we got and whether we got them home or away first.

We can beat anybody. Of that I'm sure.

Got a sneaky feeling it's going to be Mersey side Derby final.

That would be ideal. I'm hoping for that too.

Easiest draw of the 3 for me. Huge favourites to make the final.

Perfect draw, approach it the right way and we are looking at a final in Jurgens first season!!

I wish I had the money to do something as crazy as I did in 2012 because I'm fairly sure we'll be going to Wembley in February!

Got a sneaky feeling it's going to be Mersey side Derby final.

I hope so to be honest. 1) Because it will be good to have both teams from Merseyside and 2) Because it will make it even sweeter when we are taking the piss out of them because we have destroyed them in the final.

won't get in the team mate

They might make the under 21's .

Blueshite in the final it is then.

Love a Merseyside derby final.  What a great day that would be for the city of Liverpool.  Win for us, consolation for the Blues; peace and harmony all round (well we can only hope).

Stoke must be shitting themselves knowing their league cup will come to an end. As regards the final it will not matter if it is City or Everton we know we will beat them,

Payback time Mr Hughes.

Payback gonna be a bi*ch!

All teams left are tough but we have such a good chance to make a final.

Starting the new year with a trophy would be brilliant.

Absolutely buzzing for this....cannot wait 

I can't see the Ev getting past City if I'm being honest, not that it matters for an atmosphere point of view but they won't go to The Emptyhad and get anything.

More than confident we can turn Stoke over and get to the final.

If anybody wants a decent laugh, check out the Stoke forum. They think they'll turn us over comfortably and win the thing "cause we are Stoke" (in their words).

Some comments:

desman2:
Im astounded that some comments seem to believe we are incapable of getting anything from this. The only team from the four who are really consistant are citeh. Both Liverpool and Everton are certainly not made up of better players than weve got. There performance at Southampton was about the same as ours.

1-0 is the same as 6-1 with half a first team 

davejohnno1:
This is an eminently winnable tie for us. Our record against them at home is good and in our two visits under Hughes stewardship, we've been very unlucky to come away with 1-0 defeats.

Liverpool was the easiest of the ties available to us if you ask me!

We're the easiest tie? Really?

robo51:
You can bank on us getting a bad ref. The powers that be will,want a showpiece final!

Everton are playing well to be honest and I would rather play City in the final simply because they will want to beat us far more than any other team and that is a dangerous final for us.
However lets remember Stoke are playing well and we will need to play well AT HOME which is a problem for us at the moment

Everton are playing well to be honest and I would rather play City in the final simply because they will want to beat us far more than any other team and that is a dangerous final for us.
However lets remember Stoke are playing well and we will need to play well AT HOME which is a problem for us at the moment

The key thing is we are still picking up a draw at the least at home though (Palace aside). If we get can get a win at the Britannia then Stoke will have to attack us at Anfield in the second leg and that will open them up to our countering. I think that would be a massive difference to a regular league game where teams come not to lose.