The Premier League Cup final staged a divine plot, Liverpool and Chelsea 120 minutes of the game (regular season + extra time) 0-0 draw, and finally the two sides through a brutal penalty shootout to decide the winner or loser, did not expect that the players of both sides of the game psychological quality is extremely strong, the first 10 players all hit the penalty, so they had to come to the goalkeeper to shoot each other.
As a result, Liverpool's young goalkeeper Kelleher was superior, while Chelsea's goalkeeper Kepa conceded a penalty, so that Liverpool won 11-10 against Chelsea, successfully lifting the League Cup trophy for the ninth time in the team's history, becoming a veritable king of the League Cup.
Interestingly, Kepa was substituted in the last minute of extra time, in order to save the penalty, because from the past games, Kepa's level of penalty is significantly higher than Chelsea's number one goalkeeper Mendy, and Tuchel sacrificed a killer skill at a critical moment, just to fight, the bicycle becomes a motorcycle.
Unfortunately, the opposite happened, Kepa not only did not save a penalty, he also lost 1, a little bit of laughter and generosity, in fact, the change of this kind of thing, it is easy to cause psychological pressure to themselves, last year's European Cup, England against Italy has a previous experience, especially the player has just been replaced, the body is not hot, the state is often not as ideal as imagined.
Putting aside this little episode, this game can be called a high-level peak showdown, Chelsea and Liverpool played against each other, Chelsea once occupied the upper hand of the game, but Liverpool's young goalkeeper Kelleher withstood the pressure, played quite steadily, saved several must-score goals for Chelsea, and Mount had a shot that hit the upright, which was a little pity.
And Liverpool, who slowed down, launched a very fierce attack in the second half, Chelsea goalkeeper Mendy's play is even more of a super god, no matter how Liverpool shoots, Mendy can catch high and low, one by one to resolve the danger, there is no doubt that Mendy is Chelsea, no, is the brightest boy on the entire stadium, but unfortunately, Mendy, who is in such a good state, was not able to participate in the final penalty shootout, for him personally, for Chelsea, it is a pity.
Finally, I still want to congratulate Liverpool, who was able to play against such a fierce, technical and tactical level that can be called the peak of European football, and finally laughed to the end, in the case of Salah's whole field was almost frozen, the new signing Dias stepped forward, almost instigated all of Liverpool's threatening attacks, and finally fought until he was replaced.
Klopp's hand-picked young goalkeeper Kelleher also completed his mission perfectly, Klopp said that this is a cup match belonging to Kelleher, in fact, it is not very accurate, this is actually a cup that belongs to every player in Liverpool, and every player who participated in the promotion match has made a lot of contributions to Liverpool's cup, such as Takushi Minamino, who has been on the scene before, but did not appear in the final.
It is precisely because Liverpool's squad depth is getting stronger and stronger that they finally lifted the trophy that Klopp regarded as a chicken rib in the past few years, in fact, where are the chicken ribs, if conditions permit, who does not want to take a few more trophies to play? Why make a trade-off between cutting off the liver and intestines?
But there is no way, according to the depth of Liverpool's previous squad, we must choose the most important trophies to fight, and it is precisely because of the correct guiding ideology that Liverpool has won the Champions League trophy and the Premier League championship trophy, and now, this situation is finally going to change, Liverpool after several years of accumulation, finally can play the battle of prosperity, naturally to aim at more honors, in a word: as long as it is a trophy, I want it all!