Alexander Isak's first Liverpool goal was overshadowed by Hugo Ekitike's late winner and sending off against Southampton as last season's finalists progressed to the Carabao Cup fourth-round with a 2-1 win.

Liverpool named an entirely different team after the Merseyside derby win and were second best against Championship side Southampton, who had made nine changes themselves, until Isak's opener on the stroke of half time at Anfield.

Southampton goalkeeper Alex McCarthy undid all of his team's hard work as his slack pass in the box was intercepted by Federico Chiesa and cut-back to the £125m striker who opened his account on his second start for Liverpool.

Wataru Endo made an even bigger error to hand Southampton their equaliser with less than 15 minutes left of the second half as he he

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