Daniel Sturridge’s teasing cross found Lallana at the far post and the substitute struck his close-range attempt against the post, but Coutinho made no mistake, smashing the rebound past Caballero.
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“We deserved to win the game, we missed chances but if you asked me which way I’d prefer to win I’d prefer to win it is this way”.
“Maybe your word is not important, maybe the most important thing is to win things, but I think my word is more important than football”.
Yaya Toure thought he had scored in the 89th minute through a goal-mouth scramble but the former African Footballer of the Year only won his team a corner on that occasion.
Willy Caballero was City’s hero, making three saves in the shootout to deny Lucas Leiva, Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana after the match finished 1-1 after 90 minutes and extra time.
“I lost the last game at Wembley and it was not a good feeling and hopefully that will change”, he added. It’s a huge moment for me and my family.
They edged Liverpool to lift the English League Cup, otherwise known as Capital One Cup, at Wembley today.
Manuel Pellegrini: “For every player it is never comfortable to play against an old team”, said Pellegrini. But if we carry on working really hard there is light at the end of the tunnel.
“It is important to continue trusting in what we are doing”, he said.
“I am not thinking about leaving, I am thinking about the next game which is against Liverpool”.
Liverpool are now in ninth place, with just 38 points through 26 games.
City are all-but in the Champions League quarter-finals after an impressive showing at Dynamo Kiev in midweek and remain outsiders to win the Barclays Premier League as they sit fourth. While they have won only twice in their last seven matches in the league, the Reds have managed to move into the last 16 rounds of Europa League, after winning 1-0 against Augsburg over two legs. “It was a hard week for me but we had a talk that we could do it. It is fantastic for the blue people”. Raheem Sterling missed a sitter from a few yards out – a goal that would have silenced the hostile Liverpool fans who barracked him throughout – and Aguero was denied a clear penalty when he was brought down by Alberto Moreno.
“I came to Liverpool to win trophies”.
“I tried to watch all the penalties last night but my intuition helped me and God helped me for sure I am blessed to have this coach who has given me this opportunity to play here in this final”.
City skipper Vincent Kompany said: “There was so much emotion in this final”.
Only “silly idiots” wallow in defeat was Jurgen Klopp’s defiant message for his Liverpool players after his ideal day was ruined by a penalty shootout loss to Manchester City in Sunday’s League Cup final.
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“We have got experience, we looked around ourselves, we found a moment of peace and calm and kept doing what we were doing”.
