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Liverpool beat Chelsea 6-5 on pens as Mamardashvili says notes 'wrong'
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📰 Liverpool drew 1-1 with Chelsea and won 6-5 on penalties to reach the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.
📌 Key points
⚽ Liverpool and Chelsea drew 1-1 in the last 16 at Anfield on 28 October.
🎯 Both goals were penalties late in the first half.
🧤 Giorgi Mamardashvili saved Emmanuel Emegha's kick in the shootout.
🚀 Wesley Fofana's final kick flew over the bar to end it.
📝 Mamardashvili said the penalty notes were all wrong.
📝 What happened
🎯 Late in the first half Ryan Gravenberch fouled Moisés Caicedo and Morgan Rogers scored the penalty. Liverpool hit back almost immediately when Fofana handled, and Cody Gakpo converted from the spot.
🧤 The tie went to penalties at 1-1. Mamardashvili saved from Emegha, who was making his Chelsea debut, and Fofana sent his kick over the bar as Liverpool won 6-5.
📝 Mamardashvili told ITV he had a sheet on Chelsea's takers, "but everything was wrong!" He said he read Emegha's standing leg instead, adding: "I wanted to save more but sometimes one is enough."
🗣️ Andoni Iraola said: "Before the penalties I told him: 'We need to save two.'" He added: "Every team has the research. Sometimes the players change. Giorgi has been close to a lot of them."
📊 By the numbers
• Score: 1-1 (6-5 on penalties)
• Goals: Rogers (pen), Gakpo (pen)
• Mamardashvili shootout saves: 1 (Emegha)
• Quarter-final: Liverpool v Bournemouth, week of 14 December
🔭 Why it matters
According to ESPN it was Xabi Alonso's third defeat as a manager at Anfield, following Chelsea's 2-0 home loss to Spurs. Liverpool now host Iraola's former club Bournemouth in the quarter-finals, played in the week starting 14 December.
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