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

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Emmanuel Emegha could have won it for Xabi Alonso’s visitors but his effort was saved superbly by Giorgi Mamardashvili. The boos for Henderson intensified as he carried the ball to the spot with a wry smile on his face and handed it to Rogers, who sent Mamardashvili the wrong way with an emphatic penalty kick.Liverpool soon had a spot-kick of their own when Caicedo and Fofana challenged Virgil van Dijk at a Kostas Tsimikas corner and the ball struck the Chelsea defender’s raised hand.

Gakpo went low to Mike Penders’s right with his penalty while the Chelsea keeper dived to his left.The referee, Darren England, called both penalties instantly and correctly, showing officials do not always have to rely on video assistance. The game benefited as a spectacle from the absence of the video assistant referee, although Iraola might well have disagreed had Rogers scored after appearing to control Pedro Neto’s chip with his arm.

Penders also saved impressively from Barcola when the France international cut inside from the right and his low shot was deflected towards the bottom corner.Rogers was involved in several promising openings for Chelsea as Alonso’s team – improved more than Liverpool by their substitutes – finished strongly. Marco Palestra had the best of them when released by the England forward’s perfectly weighted pass but Mamardashvili produced an excellent save low to his right.