Liverpool routs West Ham 5-1 and advances to the League Cup semifinals
Liverpool vs West Ham LIVE: Carabao Cup result and final score after Curtis Jones doubles up in thrashing
Curtis Jones scored twice, with Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah also getting goals in the largely one-sided game at Anfield.
Jarrod Bowen scored a consolation goal for West Ham but the scoreline reflected the one-sidedness of the contest, with Liverpool registering 29 shots on goal to the visitors' two.
Liverpool cruised into the Carabao Cup semi-finals as the nine-time winners thrashed toothless West Ham 5-1 at Anfield.
A policy of shooting on sight can work after all. After Liverpool spent Sunday accumulating shots without scoring, the floodgates opened in the Anfield rain.
The floodgates opened after the break, however, starting with Jones' first goal as he fed Nunez with the outside of his boot,
Curtis Jones scored two goals and Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai each added one in quarter-final demolition at Anfield
then raced forward to collect the Uruguayan's return pass before slotting a cool finish through Alphonse Areola's legs from an acute angle.
Three days later, they tried and tried and tried again and 29 attempts yielded five goals, each courtesy of a fine finish.
Persistent, determined, enterprising and excellent, they demolished West Ham, exorcising some of their frustration from Sunday’s stalemate