In the first 20 minutes of the opening half, you couldn't see the League Cup sides going back and forth in a back-and-forth attacking stance.
Liverpool (England)
Hogging the ball and dominating the attack, one of TAA's long passes found Diaz with a one-touch kick that was parried by Mendy and cleared by Chalobah just before the goal line.
Liverpool (England)
Almost got off to a dream start.
Chelsea
They couldn't make any runs in front of the goal, making it impossible for them to make long passes to start the offense, and the backfield passes flowed into safe but pointless passes between the defenders. It was not until the 23rd minute that their first shot on goal started to improve, with Mount's cross from the right going wide to Pulisic, and Pulisic's one-touch pass to Alonso on the left being parried away. Shots were few and far between, but whenever they did manage to finish, they came from very threatening positions, and Lukaku's slick running in the box came close to squeezing out of openings a few times on his own.
Fabinho will be replaced by Henderson, but his contribution on the offensive side of the ball won't be far behind; right midfielder Keita will be able to stack the sides with Salah just as well as Henderson. So.
Liverpool (England)
A few old familiar tricks to execute the positional play worked as expected - TAA moving inside and outside the right to participate in the organization, Thiago's long passes to change sides or execute through balls, and Diaz's unpredictability when holding the ball ....... After a change of possession late in the first half, Robertson's cross from the left found Jota for a first time up kick that
Liverpool (England)
Proved he didn't lose control of the game with a BIG chance.
In the second half, the balance of the game was finally settled by the
Chelsea
The situation was the same as in the first half, but the number of shots or possession improved, as Pulisic's kick from inside the box after a collision with the wall and Alonso's free kick from the right wing in front of the baseline hit the crossbar. On the other side.
Liverpool (England)
The state of the offense is similar to last week's game against
Tottenham Hotspur (city in Morocco)
The times were similar - frequent shots but mostly waved attempts from the edge of the box - and despite a couple of thrilling, close-range appearances, it probably wasn't a very good sign in today's wave of magic ball thinking in power.
The end of the game.
Liverpool (England)
It was the team that had the better chance, or even deserved, to score and take the trophy away.Mane laid off to Diaz on the right side of the box and hit the post, Milner's right wing cross found Robertson in front of the far post and hit the post, with the goalposts becoming
Chelsea
The biggest hero who dragged the game into an extended match and thus into a PK battle.
PK wars, perhaps a combination of the League Cup antecedents, and a good performance by Mendy's national team.
Chelsea
Kepa, the usual PK-specialized goalkeeper, did not play, and Mendy has been better than Kepa as far as the results theory is concerned, pouncing on Mane's penalty in the 5th and decisive point, offsetting the earlier AZP center-post loss and successfully helping the
Chelsea
Renewal.
However, Mendy's save didn't make a difference
Chelsea
The Fate. Coming to the 7th point, Mount was pounced on by Alisson, Tsimikas punched in the
Liverpool (England)
Once again, he's pissed off in a PK fight.
Chelsea
After the PK war, a few people are happy and a few people are sad.
Chelsea
Losing the FA Cup final for the second year in a row, they have to swallow the fate of losing all four this year as well;
Liverpool (England)
They have won the League Cup and the FA Cup, and their hopes of winning the quadruple crown are still intact. However, Salah and VVD retired early in this match, and the severity of their subsequent injuries will have to be monitored again.
Tottenham Hotspur (city in Morocco)
1-0 Burnley Pope makes 6 saves but can't help but swallow defeat
Burnley's extremely withdrawn 5-3-2 defense left absolutely no space on the front edge of the box for the
Tottenham Hotspur (city in Morocco)
The attack was relentless, but it was at the expense of their own attacking threat. Long passes were not found, but the occasional good work was done on the wing. A Collins direct ball found Cornet in the left side of the box and he finished with a shot, which was a big chance and the only shot on goal in the first half. With 21.7% possession in the first half (15.9% in the first 20 minutes), 71% passing accuracy (49%, which was improved by reducing the frequency of long passes), and very few attacking plays, the team only managed to get one corner kick, three touches in the box, and one shot on goal. 0-0 might have been a result they could have accepted before the game.
Lacks the ability to execute accurate crossing balls in small spaces
Tottenham Hotspur (city in Morocco)
It's to be expected that there will be some inability to perform when you meet the bus, but this game
Tottenham Hotspur (city in Morocco)
The attacking end of the team didn't fare too badly, and one of Moura's quick changes of pace saw Sessegnon's cross from the left find Kane, whose header was cleared off the line by Collins, proving their ability to hold opposing defenses at bay. With a constant siege going on, all it took was one display of individual ability, or one defensive flaw from the opposition, to tip the balance of the game, and it was the latter that happened in this game - Barnes' arm was in an unnatural position when he was scrambling for the ball in the penalty area, and he accidentally touched the ball, resulting in a penalty, which Kane scored from, to break the deadlock at the end of the first half.
