Our prediction for this EFL Cup match:
Liverpool
Match Time & Date:
23 September 2025
20:00
Prediction: 4-1
Southampton
Liverpool and Southampton go head to head at Anfield in the closing match of Tuesday’s program in the EFL Cup last 32. The Reds are brimming with confidence following a 2-1 win over Everton in the Merseyside derby and they surely want to keep their 100% record in the new season intact. Manager Arne Slot is expected to mix the squad against Southampton, with all Florian Wirtz, Curtis Jones, and big-money signing Alexander Isak pushing for a start. There are no fresh injury worries in the home team.
The Saints, on the other hand, experienced all sorts of problems at the back in a 3-1 loss to Hull City and given their eight-game losing run at Anfield in all competitions, we predict that Liverpool will advance to the EFL Cup last 16 without any difficulties. Brazilian defender Wellington remains in the treatment room, but the 24-year-old should be the only absentee in Will Still’s team.
Highlighted Player (Wataru Endo):
Wataru Endo is a Japanese footballer who plays for Urawa Red Diamonds as a defender. Endo is a product of Shonan Bellmare youth academy and he continued playing for the club at senior level. After scoring 21 goals in 153 appearances (league) for the club the 178-cm tall centre-back moved to Urawa Red Diamonds in 2016 and he has been playing for the J1 League club ever since.
Endo won the AFC Champions League with Urawa in 2017 as the Reds defeated Al-Hilal in the final of the competition. The Japanese defender played 90 minutes in the victory over the Saudi Arabian side and the winning of the AFC Champions League trophy is considered the biggest success of his career.
Wataru Endo made his debut for Japan on August 2, 2015 in a 2-1 loss to Korea DPR at the EAFF E-1 Football Championship. In 2016 he was the AFC U-23 Championship trophy with the Samurai Blue. The Urawa Red Diamonds footballer was born in Totsuka-ku, Yokohama (Japan) on February 9, 1993.
Highlighted Team (Southampton):
Southampton are an English football club that have been playing their home games at St Mary's Stadium since 2001. The Saints were based at The Dell in the past and the capacity of Southampton’s new stadium is 32,505. Southampton wear red and white striped shirts and the colour of the team’s away kit is navy and green.
The Saints have yet to win the Premier League trophy, but they did well to clinch the FA Cup title back in 1976, while participating in the final of the prestigious competition in 1900, 1902 and 2003. Southampton outplayed Manchester United in the 1976 FA Cup final and that is probably the club’s greatest victory ever.
The club are well known for their football academy and Real Madrid superstar Gareth Bale is one of the players who began their football carrier at the St. Mary’s Stadium outfit. Southampton’s fiercest rivals are Portsmouth and the two teams square off against each other in the South Coast Derby.
Nottingham Forest
Chelsea 
Brighton 
Newcastle 
Man City
Everton
Barcelona
Girona
Bayern Munich 
Borussia Dortmund
Fulham
Arsenal 
