Shane Long's late strike seals Southampton's Wembley date and piles misery on Liverpool

An impressive few days for Southampton. An unpleasant few days for Liverpool. Taking after reverberating triumph over champions Leicester City on Sunday, Southampton achieved their first real glass last in 14 years with Shane Long scoring in damage time and fans attacking the pitch. Taking after the hopelessness of annihilation in the alliance to base put Swansea on Saturday, Liverpool's January turned into that bit darker.

Relentless in September and October, Liverpool abruptly seem helpless. Southampton's advance to Wembley was accomplished on account of a sorted out cautious execution however not a chivalrous one.

Southampton's third perfect sheet of the season against Liverpool came without a lot of a shake. That Maya Yoshida was Southampton's third decision focus back until a week ago and that he was untroubled here said everything in regards to Liverpool's danger.

Liverpool now have not won any of their four latest League Cup semi-finals at home. Considering Jürgen Klopp has more than once said the effect a group can have on an outcome without the requirement for a question, could this arrangement mirror a more noteworthy temperament?

Liverpool's players touched base at the stadium, however, in the midst of a furious scene: photos indicating masses of individuals covering Anfield Road, waving their scarves, droning and setting off flares in the solidifying night air.

Southampton's players arrived by means of a similar course, in the interim, knowing Virgil Van Dijk was harmed and would not be accessible. He is their commander and their most compelling player.

Southampton's director, Claude Puel, had not experienced annihilation in his four recreations against Liverpool while accountable for Lyon and, surely, Southampton. He has not won approvals for his group's style since touching base in England from Nice however he acknowledges how to set up a safeguard. Definitely it more likely than not concerned him that due to Van Dijk's nonappearance, he was compelled to approach his fourth decision focus back Jack Stephens as a substitution. Stephens will be 23 on Friday and he had never begun even a Premier League diversion so this spoke to the most vital brandishing minute in his life.

Maybe it was a measure of how little is thought about Stephens that Southampton's supporters sang about him being "one of our own," when actually, he experienced childhood in Torpoint, Cornwall, and was – in truth – marked from Plymouth Argyle in 2011 when he was 17-years of age, having effectively shown up in League One.

It is enticing to reason this was a greater amusement for Southampton than it was for Liverpool, remembering their last was in the FA Cup and that experience finished in thrashing in 2003; remembering also, the last before that was in the League Cup of 1979 when Brian Clough took his Nottingham Forest group out the prior night, got a number of them smashed and still won.

But then, it is anything but difficult to overlook that Liverpool have won just a single trophy in 11 years. With their trusts of a contribution in the Premier League title race apparently depleting, this was a much more essential for them. In inappropriate behavior, however, the absence of certainty was clear, as Southampton – with Stephens marshaling Daniel Sturridge without aggravation – passed two hundred minutes of football against Liverpool this season without surrendering an objective with no risk being postured.

The guests' had the better odds of the main half and they were indistinguishable; Nathan Redmond slaloming past Trent Alexander-Arnold on both events, and after that turning past Joel Matip before having the nearness of psyche to toe jab a go to another person in a superior position. Loris Karius spared splendidly from Dusan Tadic's first open door then Steven Davis made a wreck of the second, swelling his shot high into the Kop.

Liverpool essentially must be more forceful after the break since they couldn't have been any more detached. Fraser Forster about brought the tie level by mishandling Emre Can's stinging drive before recouping great to hook it away. Sturridge then got himself unmarked in the container twice however was not exactly sufficiently adjusted to score. Be that as it may, Liverpool were not really battering down the entryway. Southampton merited their place at Wembley. It was ensured on account of Long.

Liverpool (4-3-3): Karius; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Lovren, Milner; Can (Origi 78), Henderson, Lallana; Firmino, Sturridge, Coutinho (Wijnaldum 87).

Subs not utilized: Mignolet, Klavan, Moreno, Lucas, Woodburn.

Southampton (4-1-4-1): Forster; Cedric, Stephens, Yoshida, Bertrand; Romeu; Redmond (Sims 81), Ward-Prowse (Hojbjerg 59), Davis, Tadic; Rodriguez (Long 45).