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Less than three years ago, Jarell Quansah and Conor Bradley were lining up for Liverpool in an FA Youth Cup final. Now the developing duo have their sights on a much bigger prize.

Both Quansah and Bradley started the Reds' League Cup semi-final second leg at Fulham on Wednesday night, where a 1-1 draw was sufficient to secure a 3-2 aggregate triumph and a showdown with Chelsea at Wembley next month.

It was another significant step in the burgeoning career of the 20-year-old duo, who have both started to realise their potential this season for Jurgen Klopp's new-look side.

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Playing alongside skipper Virgil van Dijk at centre-back, Quansah was making only a 12th start since making his senior breakthrough in August, while Bradley is proving an able deputy for Trent Alexander-Arnold at right-back having missed much of the first half of the campaign through injury.

And Quansah says: "Virgil has shown over the last five or 10 years he has been one of the best centre-backs in the world and in my opinion the best. To have him next to you, just talking through the game, helps us all. Especially as we had an inexperienced right-hand side, some would say, but me and Con have played together a long time now, so we know each other's game quite well.

"To have that and be able to stick together like we did in the Youth Cup days, being able to transfer that on to here is a great achievement for us.

"It's unbelievable (to be in a final). When you start off as a kid as a footballer, it's where you want to be, in finals. You imagine it but you never actually