Good afternoon, all, and welcome to our LIVE coverage of Liverpool v Blackburn Rovers.

Liverpool get us under way this afternoon. Bright sunshine over Anfield.

The teams are lined up and ready to trek out.

Bowyer: "I want your lads playing against the best...we'll see how we go today."

Gary Bowyer: "It's David vs Goliath. Nobody's giving us a chance outside of our dressing room. I think they're the most impressive team in the Premier League at the moment and the football that they're playing is fantastic. Obviously full credit to the manager for the way he changed his formation. We've studied the videos, we've come up with a gameplan, and we've worked with the players on it. We'll go and take the challenge to Liverpool. We've been very organised and very disciplined in the previous meetings with the Premier League teams, and then of course along the way you need a bit of luck. The mood's one of excitement and rightly so. The lads have earned the right to play at Anfield with the performances in the previous rounds."

TEAMS: Liverpool - Mignolet, Johnson, Skrtel, Lovren, Can, Henderson (c), Markovic, Sterling, Coutinho, Lallana, Sturridge. Subs - Ward, Toure, Sakho, Moreno, Williams, Balotelli. /// Blackburn - Eastwood, Henley, Baptiste, Kilgallon (c), Olsson, Marshall, Evans, Williamson, Conway, Cairney, Gestede. Subs - Steele, Spurr, Brown, Rhodes, Taylor, Henry, Lenihan.