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Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties yet again to secure Carabao Cup progress

The Guardian UK Wednesday 28 October 2026, 22:30 UTC By Andy Hunter at Anfield 1 min read
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Chelsea must have known their fate as soon as the last 16 tie at Anfield went to penalties. Four times they had faced Liverpool in a penalty shoot-out previously and four times they had lost. Make that five, after Wesley Fofana’s woeful attempt sailed high into the Kop and sent Andoni Iraola’s side into the Carabao Cup quarter finals.

Chelsea must have known their fate as soon as the last 16 tie at Anfield went to penalties. Four times they had faced Liverpool in a penalty shoot-out previously and four times they had lost. Make that five, after Wesley Fofana’s woeful attempt sailed high into the Kop and sent Andoni Iraola’s side into the Carabao Cup quarter finals.

The defender was not the only culprit as Chelsea’s catalogue of penalty misery against Liverpool gained a new chapter to add to the 2007 Champions League semi final, the 2019 Uefa Super Cup final and the FA and League Cup finals of 2022. Emmanuel Emegha could have won it for Xabi Alonso’s visitors but his effort was saved superbly by Giorgi Mamardashvili.

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