Yaya Toure struck the winning kick, but it was Caballero who was borne aloft by his team-mates after saving three out of four of Liverpool’s kicks – from Lucas Leiva, Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana. After a very short time, we have the chance.
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“I’m very happy, not because it is my final season, I’m happy for a lot of things”.
“It’s not an obligation to my word, it’s an obligation to think that we are doing it one way in that tournament and it’s important to try to finish until the end in the same way”. But more importantly than that, City’s win has done Chelsea a favor by granting a Europa League spot to the 6th place finishers in the Premier League as well. The games will be played on 10 and 17 of March and the match will be certainly interesting.
“If you add the guys that have arrived since we won the trophy in 2014 and the players that are here now and have been since that game, I think we are definitely a stronger side now”, he said.
I think the line-up of Man City will not be the biggest surprise but we have to compete with the best performance of Man City.
“It’s great. We deserve these games”, Klopp said. “He knows that if he’s going to score a goal, anything I can do to stop him, I will and he knows that”. Making the squad this time is two things: the best thing I could ever do and the most difficult thing I have had to do until now because a few players will be disappointed at some hard decisions. “A lot of media were waiting to criticise me if Willy Caballero makes a mistake”.
City captain Vincent Kompany had lifted the trophy in his club’s previous League Cup final and the Belgian defender was delighted to get his hands on the silverware again.
“Stevie so often in his life made the right decisions and said the right things so hopefully this is the truth too”.
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“You have to look at every game and every 90 minutes, the next game against Manchester City will be totally different to the game against Aston Villa last season, and we focus on that rather than the past”. You have to feel a defeat, you can’t say it’s not important.
