Liverpool won their tenth English League Cup title when they beat Chelsea 1–0 in the final.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alisson, Stefan Bajcetic, Diogo Jota, Curtis Jones, Joel Matip, Darwin Nunez, Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai, Thiago.
Liverpool went to Sunday’s final match of the English League Cup against Chelsea from difficult starting points, as more than half of the players in its starting line-up are injured.
In addition, the midfield Ryan Gravenberch was injured in the 28th minute of the match.
However, the Premier League’s top team won the first trophy of the season, when the captain Virgil van Dijk scored the only goal of the match Kostas Tsimikas from a corner kick in the follow-up match, after 118 minutes of the game.
Liverpool had three players under the age of 20 on the field at the end of the match: Jayden Danns (18 years), Bobby Clarke (19) and James McConnell (19).
Coaching Liverpool in his last season Jurgen Klopp beamed after the match that the award was the most special of his career.
– The events were crazy. Our team was full of brave academy players. This is incredible. I am so proud to be a part of this. Wow! Klopp sets the mood for Sky Sports.
– We may never see something like this in football again. Apparently you don’t win prizes with the young, I didn’t know that. I am immensely proud.
Chelsea played in the match with a more named lineup. The club is Todd Boehly owned players, especially young ones, with more than a billion euros.
The situation between Chelsea, which is known as a money club, and Liverpool, which is suffering from injuries, got the Sky Sports commentator Gary Neville’s for rounds.
– In extra time, the picture of the match was Klopp’s youth against the blue billionaires. I don’t have enough sympathy for Chelsea. Head coach Mauricio Pochettino’s the players shrank before our eyes.
– The Chelsea players will regret the follow-up match for a long time. They played the actual match well and were a little unlucky. I am really disappointed with the team’s performance in the follow-up match. You can’t cancel like that, especially when Liverpool had so many young people on the field.
Chelsea’s Pochettino considered Neville’s statements to be indiscretions. At the end of the match, the average age of Liverpool’s players on the field was 24.1, and Chelsea’s was 22.6.
– I don’t know how to describe this, but I am proud of the players. They tried hard. We’re a really young team and you can’t compare that to Liverpool because they had a couple of teenagers on the pitch at the end.
The league cup championship was Liverpool’s tenth.