Liverpool booked their place in the Carabao Cup final by overcoming Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday night. Despite trailing 1-0 from the first leg, the Reds eased past their opponents with a 4-0 win at Anfield.

A goal from Cody Gakpo in the first half, was added to by Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai and Virgil van Dijk in the second period to give Liverpool a comfortable 4-1 aggregate win. Arne Slot’s side will take on Newcastle United at Wembley in the final next month.

But, things would have been different if Gary Neville’s prediction before the match had come true. On the Overlap US’s It’s Called Soccer podcast, Neville predicted: “I think Tottenham are going to get a draw, I don’t know how they’re going to get a draw at Anfield, but I feel like it’s going to be an emotional, mad night where something happens.

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“Ange Postecoglou said earlier on in the season [that he wins trophies], and maybe I’m not hanging my hat on what he’s saying entirely. But I’ve just got a feeling that Tottenham could win the Carabao Cup this season.

“And I’ve got a feeling that, to be fair, they’re always going to have to come through a moment like this. It will be absolute Liverpool favourites, but I feel somehow Tottenham are going to get a draw by hook or by crook.”

A draw at Anfield would have seen Tottenham through to the final on aggregate, thanks to the 1-0 win in the first leg. However, the result has proven Neville’s prediction wrong, and it’s not the first time it’s happened in regard to Liverpool.

Back in August, the pundit predicted on Monday Night Football that the Reds would miss out on a top-four finish at the end of the season. It’s something he later retracted, saying in November: “I never change my predictions at this stage of the season, [but] my predictions were that Liverpool wouldn’t even be in the top four.

“That has to change, I think, because they’ve done a far better job of settling Arne Slot in than I imagined and getting over the Jurgen Klopp exit, but I do think City and Arsenal will hit their stride at some point and hit their form. At that point, they will prove to still be the best two teams in the country.”