利物浦点球大战击败切尔西晋级八强

Wesley Fofana missed the decisive spot kick as Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties to set up a Carabao Cup quarter-final against Andoni Iraola's former side Bournemouth.

Fofana, whose handball gifted Liverpool their equaliser from the spot in normal time, scooped his penalty into the Kop after Giorgi Mamardashvili had denied Chelsea debutant Emmanuel Emegha.

Valentin Barco, another substitute, also missed his spot kick, sending his effort onto the post, but Ryan Gravenberch was thwarted by Mike Penders and Kostas Tsimikas fired over to keep a dramatic shoot-out going before Joe Gomez capitalised on Emegha's miss and Fofana fired over.

The goals also came from the spot in normal time, with Morgan Rogers and Cody Gakpo converting within three minutes of each other as a cagey first half burst into life before the break.

Both penalties were needlessly conceded, with Gravenberch first fouling Moises Caicedo when he was running away from goal, and Fofana then bizarrely raising his hand to touch a Tzimikas corner.

There were chances for both sides to win it in the second half, with Penders saving from substitute Bradley Barcola and Ronald Araujo, and Mamardashvili denying Rogers and Chelsea substitute Marco Palestra. But the two sides could not be separated.

While Chelsea named a strong starting line-up, Liverpool boss Andoni Iraola included four youngsters in Trey Nyoni, Rio Ngumoha, James McConnell and Lewis Koumas, and the visitors were unable to make their greater experience count.

这场胜利使利物浦在各项赛事中取得了五连胜。对于切尔西来说，这是继英超输给热刺之后的连续第二场失利。蓝军还因腿筋明显受伤而在上半场失去了后卫马克森斯·拉克鲁瓦。

对于阿隆索和切尔西中场球员乔丹·亨德森来说，这一切都导致安菲尔德的回归不愉快。切尔西现在已经连续五次点球大战输给利物浦了。

平局将于 12 月 14 日开始的一周内进行。

“我认为这是一场相当水平的比赛。竞争非常激烈，两支球队都没有太多机会。我们有一些时刻，他们也有一些时刻。

"We are really happy with the performances of a lot of the players and obviously happy to finish on the right end of the penalty shoot-out because it gave us the chance to be in the draw.

On Liverpool's young starters: "I think they did a good job. I think they deserved the right to play because they were also very good against Spurs in the last round. We told them, they are first-team players and we are confident if they have to play.

“他们向我们展示了他们的水平非常高，并且给了我们很多帮助。”

关于利物浦的连胜：“这是主场三连胜，这非常重要。 We were struggling a little bit at home.现在我们有信心取得三连胜，而周日我们将对阵阿森纳，这是最重要的一场。”

“就是这样的处罚，有人回家后会觉得外出很艰难。但我们看到了一场真正的杯赛，激烈且非常接近。 Then penalties are open for everything.

"We performed with enough level to compete at Anfield. After scoring the first goal we unluckily conceded the penalty. The game was really close from both sides.

"It was a solid performance.我们没有丢掉很多机会，所以他不需要做太多工作，但他（迈克·彭德斯）非常稳定和扎实。 That was very important.

“我看到一支球队在竞争并表现出良好的水平。这对我们来说是最不重要的比赛，现在的焦点是英超联赛。”