Afterward, Liverpool dramatically won the League Cup final. Kepa Arrizabalaga missed the decisive penalty to give Liverpool an 11-10 shootout victory over Chelsea after the two teams played out an exciting goalless tie on Sunday.
Juergen Klopp’s team won their first domestic trophy since the 2012 League Cup when Kepa hit the spot-kick and flew high over the bar.
Kepa missed the only penalty in the nerve-wracking shoot-out, which saw Caoimhin Kelleher score his penalty just before Kepa failed.
Kepa was sent on at the end of extra time to replace Edouard Mendy because of his reputation as a penalty saver.
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But the Spaniard was unable to stop any of Liverpool’s kicks.
This was a great game, even though there were no goals in the first 120 minutes.
There were a lot of chances for both teams to win before the game ended heartbreakingly.
When Liverpool scored a goal in the second half because Virgil van Dijk was a little too close to Joel Matip, Chelsea had three goals disallowed because they were too close later in the match.
The Reds have won the League Cup a record nine times, moving ahead of Manchester City.
Klopp is the first German manager to win the tournament after two defeats at Wembley.
Liverpool is still running for an unprecedented quadruple after closing the gap on Premier League leaders Manchester City to six points with a game in hand. They still have a chance to win the title.
They are on their way to the Champions League quarter-finals after winning Inter Milan in the first leg of their last 16 matches.
On Wednesday, they play Norwich in the fifth round of the FA Cup, which they won.
When Liverpool and Chelsea’s players came together to show support for war-torn Ukraine at the start of the match, it was a sad moment.
Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson brought flowers in the colors of their home country to the field.
Football “Stands Together” was written on the scoreboard in yellow and blue.
People at Chelsea had a tough week, which was a painful end to it.
On Saturday, Roman Abramovich, the Russian owner of Chelsea, said that he was giving the club’s trustees from Chelsea’s charitable foundation “the stewardship and care.” This was a painful end to the week.
Abramovich, who will still own the club, made a move after MPs in the UK called for Russian oligarchs to be stripped of their money.
Chelsea must try to finish in the top four and win the FA Cup again to keep the Champions League.
A group of resolute reds
They paid the price for a series of missed chances, including Christian Pulisic wasting a good score in the first few minutes.
Mendy went to his right to stop Naby Keita’s 20-yard shot, then scrambled across to stop Sadio Mane’s close-range follow-up with one hand when it looked like he was going to score.
If Pulisic had found Havertz, he should have sent across to Mason Mount, who volleyed it wide from eight yards.
At the start of the second half, Mount made a mistake that was even worse than the first.
He scuffed his shot against the post after Pulisic’s clever chip left Mount completely unguarded inside the box.
Chelsea came out on top in the 67th minute when Matip headed Mane’s header into the top corner of the net from close range.
Attwell looked at the pitch-side monitor during the game and disallowed Van Dijk’s goal because he was in the wrong place at the right time.
Havertz saw his header disallowed for a much clearer offside than the one that kept Klopp’s team from getting the goal.
Romelu Lukaku came on for the second game in a row after being left on the bench.
He thought he had put Chelsea ahead in extra time, but a questionable offside decision disallowed his goal.
A second offside flag stopped Havertz from scoring, setting up Liverpool to win it in the shootout.
