Liverpool No2 Lijnders: Carabao Cup is gold for our youngsters - like Jones | OneFootball

Liverpool No2 Pep Lijnders insists they're serious about winning the Carabao Cup and Curtis Jones will start against Norwich City tonight.

Lijnders says the competition has been crucial in Jones' development.

He said, "I think our team is hungry, our squad is hungry to compete in each competition, and this is one of them. I think everybody says we don't like these competitions but we like [it] because I feel this generation of players, this Liverpool team, deserves to fight as well for the national cups.

"We lost against Chelsea three years ago, two years ago we won the [Club] World Cup instead of playing the League Cup, and [last season] we lost to Arsenal on penalties, and everybody knew last year we created chance after chance against them. It's not that we don't like it.

"There's need and just a matter of logic by using other players. It's gold for young players, proper gold, because we like this competition to introduce new players – and that's why I have to say that Curtis, he's going to start tomorrow as well and it's his 50th game for Liverpool. That all started with this cup."