Irresistible, inevitable, incredible. And, in this kind of form, unstoppable. There simply isn’t a team who can live with Liverpool right now.

Certainly not injury-hampered Tottenham Hotspur who, even when going into the game with a goal start after the first leg in London a month ago, simply had no answer.

It would be easy to concentrate on the alarmingly meek manner in which the visitors surrendered that advantage in the first half before being completely blown away after the break. Not a single booking for Tottenham highlights their lack of fight.

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That, though, would do an undeserved disservice to a Liverpool performance that, in the second half in particular, demonstrated exactly what they are capable of under Arne Slot.

There have been many League Cup semi-finals at Anfield – this, in fact, was a record-breaking 20th – but surely none can have seen the Reds in such rampantly dominant form from first minute to last. It’s no exaggeration to say they could have doubled their tally.

Players snapped into tackles, the Tottenham defence was constantly suffocated by the Liverpool press, and there was then the quality that allowed the Reds to pick and choose their moments, the pinnacle of which was the beautifully-constructed third goal converted by Dominik Szoboszlai. Hang it in the Louvre.

By the time Lucas Bergvall, the controversial match-winner in the first leg, was introduced shortly before the hour, the momentum had long since shifted in favour of the home team. Liverpool had 26 shots, 15 corners and 64% possession. Tottenham didn’t have a single effort on target.

With the Reds also six points clear at the Premier League summit and into the Champions League last 16 as table-toppers, Slot has already shown he isn't wasting any time in attempting to guide his team towards silverware.

And he could now claim a first trophy as Reds boss at the earliest opportunity when they meet Newcastle United, conquerors of Arsenal, in the Wembley final on March 16.

The League Cup, while the least important of the four gongs on offer, has historically proven a significant stepping stone in the career of an Anfield boss.

It was the first trophy won by Joe Fagan, Roy Evans, Gerard Houllier and, in his second spell in charge, Kenny Dalglish, while it represented a debut final for both Rafa Benitez and Jurgen Klopp.

Now it’s the turn of Slot. The season that keeps giving has just offered Liverpool another Wembley occasion with arguably their best performance of the campaign. Anfield South, everyone?