Liverpool rally to beat Leicester City 5-4 on penalties; face Arsenal in semis
Liverpool’s Diogo Jota celebrates a goal against Leicester City during their League Cup quarter-final at Anfield on Wednesday. Pic/AFP
Liverpool came from two goals down to beat Leicester on penalties after a pulsating League Cup quarter-final ended 3-3 at Anfield as Tottenham and Chelsea also made the semi-finals on Wednesday.
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Spurs were 2-1 winners over West Ham and will face Chelsea in the last four after they needed two late goals to see off Brentford 2-0. Liverpool will take on Arsenal in the semi-finals over two legs in January.
Vardy on target
Jamie Vardy struck twice inside the first 13 minutes as he angled a drive across Caoimhin Kelleher and then tapped in Patson Daka’s pass from close range. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain got Liverpool back in the game as smashed home from the edge of the area.
Leicester restored their two-goal cushion before half-time thanks to James Maddison. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp introduced three first-team regulars at half-time and one of them, Diogo Jota, gave Liverpool life again.
Liverpool’s Takumi Minamino sent the game to penalties in the fifth minute of stoppage time. Minamino then missed with the chance to win the tie from the spot in the shootout, but Kelleher saved from Luke Thomas and Ryan Bertrand before Jota fired home the winning penalty.
‘Ease fixture congestion’
Meanwhile, Klopp and Tottenham boss Antonio Conte have called for January’s semi-finals to be switched to one-legged ties to ease fixture congestion.
“I think it would be better with one game absolutely, but obviously what I say is not too important,” said Klopp.
“If there are two games, then we will play two games. But it would be helpful if there was only one, true. The draw has us at Arsenal, I’m fine with that, we play there and see who is better and go for it,” Klopp added.
COVID-hit Tottenham were eliminated from the Europa League earlier this week after a rearranged date for their final group game against Rennes could not be agreed between the clubs. “Maybe it would be better to play one game and not two games, especially for the situation we are living but we have to respect the rules,” said Conte.
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