KOP'S TEENS NOT KIDDING!

18-year-olds Koumas and Danns light up Anfield

- ANDY DUNN

THE same kids, the same heroics, the same outcome, just a different cup.

As the teams prepared to come out for the second half of this tie, the stadium announcer played a classic from The Who.

The Kids Are Alright. They are more than alright, they are helping Jurgen Klopp get through one of the most serious injury struggles of his time at Anfield.

And never mind the kids being alright, Liverpool are through to the last eight thanks to teenage kicks as a goal from Lewis Koumas and two from Jayden Danns, both 18 years of age, saw off Southampton.

To be fair, Klopp also got a lot of help from his opposite number.

The Liverpool boss had an excuse for fielding another scratch team - half of his squad is walking with a limp.

There was no such mitigation for Russell Martin, the manager of a club whose only moment of true glory in its 138-year history came in this grand, old competition.