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Arsenal duo named in EFL Cup Team of the Tournament

Arsenal duo named in EFL Cup Team of the Tournament
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Arsenal's Cedric Soares and Nicolas Pepe earn spots in the 2021-22 EFL Cup Team of the Tournament.

Arsenal duo Cedric Soares and Nicolas Pepe have both been named in the EFL Cup Team of the Tournament.

The Gunners' run in the 2021-22 edition ended in the semi-finals, with Liverpool seeing off Mikel Arteta's side 2-0 in the second leg after a 0-0 first-leg draw at Anfield.

However, ahead of Sunday's final between the Reds and Chelsea, Arsenal have seen Cedric and Pepe named in the Team of the Tournament, with the former claiming two assists in three starts against Wimbledon, Leeds and Sunderland.

Pepe, meanwhile, struck two goals and set up four more in his three appearances in the tournament - having a direct contribution to a goal in all of those games - but there is no place in the squad for five-goal striker Eddie Nketiah.

Finalists Liverpool do not have any representatives in the XI, but four Chelsea players in Saul Niguez, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Marcos Alonso and Reece James have been included.

Two more Premier League players in Brentford's Yoane Wissa and Marcus Forss are also in, as Queens Park Rangers' Rob Dickie earns a spot in defence.

Preston North End's Emil Riis Jakobsen - who has four goals and one assist in the tournament - earns a place up top, and the team is completed by Swansea City's Morgan Whittaker after his second-round hat-trick versus Plymouth Argyle.

EFL Cup Team of the Tournament: Kepa; Cedric, James, Dickie, Alonso; Pepe, Whittaker, Saul, Wissa; Riis, Forss

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