Liverpool beat Chelsea 6-5 on penalties at Wembley to win the FA Cup after drawing 0-0 in 120 minutes and Jurgen Klopp’s facet continues their pursuit of a quadruple sweep of trophies. We’ve picked out 11 stats to spotlight their achievement in England’s oldest cup competitors.
Regardless of Mohamed Salah leaving the pitch with a suspected damage within the first half, and star winger Sadio Mane lacking his effort from the spot, cool ending and an unbelievable save from Alisson for Mason Mount’s spot-kick ensured that Liverpool will carry the cup.
Nonetheless simply three factors off the highest of the league and with an upcoming Champions League last towards Actual Madrid, Liverpool look set for a memorable finish to the season, and profitable the FA Cup could give them an extra enhance going into the ultimate few weeks.
This was a repeat of each the Carabao Cup last earlier this season in addition to the FA Cup last from 2012. Chelsea received in 2012, however misplaced on penalties in related trend again in February.
Right here’s 11 unbelievable stats from the win to indicate Liverpool’s brilliance in addition to Chelsea’s unhealthy luck.
– Liverpool have received each of England’s home cup competitions for the primary time since 2000-01, when in addition they went on to win a European trophy that season. Liverpool now have eight FA Cups to their identify, a document solely bettered by Manchester United with 12 and Arsenal with 14.
– That is solely the third FA Cup last to go all the way in which to penalties, with the facet who completed greater within the desk that season profitable each occasions – Arsenal v Man Utd in 2004-05 and Liverpool v West Ham in 2005-06.
TSIMIKAS SCORES FROM THE SPOT – AND LIVERPOOL HAVE WON THE FA CUP FOR THE EIGHTH TIME IN THEIR HISTORY! 🏆@LFC | @EmiratesFACup pic.twitter.com/oKC50vZGeo
— ITV Soccer (@itvfootball) May 14, 2022
– Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp has change into solely the second supervisor to win the European Cup/Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup and the English top-flight title all with the identical English membership, after Sir Alex Ferguson with Manchester United.
– Chelsea are the primary facet to lose each home cup finals in the identical season since Middlesbrough in 1996-97.
– Chelsea are actually the primary facet since Newcastle United (1974, 1998 & 1999) to lose three consecutive FA Cup finals having misplaced in 2019-20 (vs Arsenal), 2020-21 (vs Leicester) and tonight towards Liverpool. (By way of @OptaJoe)
– Mason Mount has now misplaced his 5 finals in a row at Wembley Stadium: three FA Cups (2020, 2021, 2022), EURO 2020 and the 2022 Carabao Cup last.
– Chelsea have now misplaced 10 of their final 16 finals courting again to 2015, with the six wins coming within the League Cup (2015), FA Cup (2018), Europa League (2019), Champions League (2021), UEFA Tremendous Cup (2021) and Membership World Cup (2021).
– Sadio Mane has now received 4 penalty shootouts in 2022: the AFCON last & World Cup qualification towards Egypt, the Carabao Cup and FA Cup finals towards Chelsea.
– Alisson Becker and Edouard Mendy have each now change into the second and third goalkeepers to maintain a clear sheet in each a European Cup/Champions League last and an FA Cup last after Ray Clemence of Liverpool (through @Squawka)
– This was Liverpool’s first look within the FA Cup last since 2012, and their first victory within the competitors since 2005.
– Chelsea have now misplaced the joint-most FA Cup finals within the historical past of the competitors with eight defeats. (By way of @Orbinho).
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