Cody Gakpo will make history for Liverpool if he scores against Fulham on Wednesday night.
The match-winner against the Cottagers earlier this month in the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals, should he find the net again at Craven Cottage, he will become the first player in the Reds’ history to score in five consecutive fixtures in the competition.
While the Dutchman only has three Premier League goals from 19 appearances so far this season, he has scored in each of Liverpool’s four League Cup outings during the current campaign.
Starting upfront against Leicester City and AFC Bournemouth in the third and fourth rounds, he equalised in a 3-1 win against the Foxes before opening the scoring against the Cherries as the Reds’ ran out 2-1 victors.
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Leading the attack again against West Ham United in the quarter-finals, he scored Liverpool’s third on the night in a 3-1 win before netting the winner off the bench against Fulham last time out in the League Cup.
As a result of such a scoring run, he is the second leading goalscorer in the competition. Only Morgan Rogers has more, netting his fifth League Cup goal of the campaign against Chelsea on Tuesday night. But with such a strike only a consolation at Stamford Bridge in a 6-2 aggregate loss, the Reds forward will be hoping that if he does get his own name on the scoresheet again, it will come in much more positive circumstances.
Of course, it was a similar story in the Liverpool camp the last time Jurgen Klopp’s men won the League Cup back in 2022. Takumi Minamino was the second
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