Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers wary of Bournemouth "quality"

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has warned his players of Bournemouth's "good quality" ahead of the two sides' League Cup quarter-final tomorrow night.

Hosts Bournemouth are top of the Championship after Saturday's 5-3 win over Cardiff City, and Rodgers is wary of the challenge they pose.

"They have very much got good quality in the side," he told a pre-match press conference. "It's going to be a really tough game for us and our players know, having experienced it last season in the cup, that it will be a difficult game.

"But it's a challenge that we're really up for - we're in the quarter-finals so we want to win the competition. In order to do that, we have to get through difficult games.

"We'll go there knowing it is difficult. The crowd will be up for it at a smaller stadium; it doesn't matter where you go with Liverpool, the stadium will always be packed out."

The two sides met earlier this year in an FA Cup fourth-round tie, with Liverpool winning 2-0 at the Goldsands Stadium.