The quarter-final draw<\/p>\n
Fleetwood Town v Everton or Newcastle United<\/p>\n
Manchester City v Bradford City<\/p>\n
Crystal Palace v Sunderland<\/p>\n
Liverpool v Bournemouth<\/p>\n
Fixtures to be played week commencing December 14<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Andy Hunter was at Anfield tonight. Here\u2019s his report. Thanks for reading this MBM.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Xabi Alonso speaks to Sky. \u201cEvery time you reach the penalties someone will feel it was harsh to go out \u2026 it was a proper cup game \u2026 really close on both sides \u2026 we have performed at a good enough level to compete at Anfield \u2026 for all the game it was really close \u2026 it was a solid performance from Mike [Penders] \u2026 he was stable and solid \u2026 very important after Saturday \u2026 this is football \u2026 part of our job \u2026 we competed and showed a good level \u2026 this is the least important competition for us \u2026 the Premier League is the main focus \u2026 we do not have much time to recover \u2026 we have to change the mindset quite quick.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Andoni Iraola, who will face his old club Bournemouth in the quarters, speaks to Sky Sports. \u201cIt was quite a level game \u2026 very competitive \u2026 not a lot of chances \u2026 happy with the performances of our players \u2026 we are confident [in our young players] \u2026 they have helped us a lot \u2026 we were really close to scoring a second goal \u2026 when you win, you forget those chances \u2026 you have to keep your concentration levels [for penalties] \u2026 three [wins] at home in a row is important \u2026 we were struggling \u2026 now we have the biggest one against Arsenal on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>The quarter-final draw<\/p>\n Fleetwood Town v Everton or Newcastle United<\/p>\n Manchester City v Bradford City<\/p>\n Crystal Palace v Sunderland<\/p>\n Liverpool v Bournemouth<\/p>\n Fixtures to be played week commencing December 14<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Liverpool v Bournemouth.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Crystal Palace v Sunderland.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Manchester City v Bradford City.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The quarter-final draw. Fleetwood Town v Everton or Newcastle United.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The quarter-final draw is coming up. No flipping!<\/p>\n Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd\/AlamyShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.26 EDT<\/p>\n What a moment for Joe Gomez, who has never scored a regulation goal for Liverpool<\/a>. But he has now slotted the decisive penalty for his team in a shoot-out. The draw after 90 minutes seemed about right on balance \u2013 neither team did quite enough to win \u2013 so it was down to the slim margins of the spot-kick shoot-out. Both Liverpool and Chelsea had it in their grasp, both spurned their chance, but Liverpool didn\u2019t blink twice.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>RESULT: Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea (Liverpool win 6-5 on pens)<\/p>\n Anfield explodes in delight; poor Fofana sinks onto his haunches. Xabi embraces his old pal Andoni, and Liverpool<\/a> make it to the quarters. Henderson, to his great credit, hides his disappointment and gives his old team-mate Van Dijk a congratulatory hug.<\/p>\n Wesley Fofana skies it and Chelsea are out! Photograph: Ryan Browne\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.17 EDT<\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 6-5 Chelsea. Fofana next for Chelsea. He looks a tad nervous \u2026 and is asked to re-spot the ball before taking \u2026 and it\u2019s too much for him. He leans back and launches his penalty deep into the Kop, and Liverpool\u2019s hex over Chelsea from 12 yards extends to five out of five!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 6-5 Chelsea. Gomez, who has never scored for Liverpool, absolutely whistles a penalty into the top right. What moxie there!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 5-5 Chelsea. Emegha, on his Chelsea debut, aims for the bottom left \u2026 and Mamardashvili extends to claw away! Not the greatest penalty, but a fine save nonetheless!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 5-5 Chelsea. Gravenberch, who cost Liverpool the penalty in the first half, errs again. A scuffed kick towards the bottom right, and Penders, who guesses correctly, parries well! Chelsea one kick away from the quarters!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 5-5 Chelsea. Colwill has to score, like Henderson before him \u2026 and with a one-step run-up, he absolutely lashes into the top right! Mamardashvili had guessed correctly, but good luck stopping that one!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 5-4 Chelsea. Barcola up next for Liverpool, who were so close and now are so far. He takes a short run-up. Three or four steps \u2026 and whipped into the top left. What a penalty! Pressure back on Chelsea now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 4-4 Chelsea. Henderson, of all people, up next for Chelsea. The erstwhile Liverpool captain, who lifted seven trophies for the club, runs up and \u2026 bashes a clean kick down the middle. Sudden death now!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 4-3 Chelsea. Tsimikas, who scored the decisive spot kick between these teams at the 2022 FA Cup final, has the chance to send Liverpool through. And he sails the penalty miles over the bar! What an awful spot kick!<\/p>\n Photograph: Darren Staples\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.09 EDT<\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 4-3 Chelsea. Barco next for Chelsea. He takes a little skip, sends Mamardashvili the wrong way \u2026 but clips his rising shot off the inside of the left-hand post and out! Liverpool suddenly one kick away from the quarters!<\/p>\n Photograph: Ian Hodgson\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.08 EDT<\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 4-3 Chelsea. Wirtz takes a short run-up \u2026 and bashes a fine penalty into the bottom right. Penders sent the wrong way. These are spot kicks out of the top drawer.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 3-3 Chelsea. Lavia next up for Chelsea. Before he can take, Penders is told to get out of everyone\u2019s sightline. But Lavia isn\u2019t fazed by the hold-up, sending Mamardashvili the wrong way as he whips into the bottom right.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 3-2 Chelsea. Gakpo, who equalised in the first half from 12 yards, lashes into the bottom left. Penders goes the wrong way. Every kick unstoppable so far.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 2-2 Chelsea. Rogers, who gave Chelsea the lead from the spot in the first half, slots into the bottom left. Mamardashvili guesses correctly, but the placement was so good, he had no hope of reaching the ball.<\/p>\n Photograph: Ian Hodgson\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.05 EDT<\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 2-1 Chelsea. Isak takes his first penalty in a Liverpool shirt. A straight-ish run up. High and into the top left. Again Penders guesses correctly; again he\u2019s got no hope of stopping that.<\/p>\n Photograph: Ian Hodgson\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.04 EDT<\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 1-1 Chelsea. Neto is first up for Chelsea. He aims for the middle of goal. Mamardashvili dives left and the ball whistles into the net. Fine penalty.<\/p>\n Photograph: Ian Hodgson\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.03 EDT<\/p>\n PENALTIES: Liverpool<\/a> 1-0 Chelsea. Mac Allister up first. Penders takes his sweet time to go in goal. Mac Allister steps up to warm applause, and \u2026 roofs into the top left. Penders went the right way, but didn\u2019t have a chance.<\/p>\n Photograph: Peter Byrne\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.02 EDT<\/p>\n The penalties will be taken in front of the Kop. Liverpool<\/a> to go first.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n While we wait, a reminder of all the other scores in the League Cup tonight.<\/p>\n Bournemouth 3-0 Aston Villa<\/p>\n Fulham 0-1 Crystal Palace<\/p>\n Manchester City 2-2 Brighton & Hove Albion (City win 4-3 on pens)<\/p>\n Sunderland 3-2 Brentford<\/p>\n Bradford City and Fleetwood Town are also in the pot after last night\u2019s heroics. Everton host Newcastle United tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Liverpool and Chelsea have contested four penalty shoot-outs. Liverpool<\/a> have won them all, most famously at the 2022 League and FA Cup finals. Chelsea are due one, it\u2019s fair to say. Giorgi Mamardashvili and Mike Penders prepare to be the hero.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>FULL TIME: Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea<\/p>\n Penalties it is! Seems about right on the balance of play.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +2: Gomez with another run down the right. Probably not the player Liverpool<\/a> need in these situations.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +1: \u2026 and just like that, we\u2019re 60 seconds closer to a shoot-out. Both teams look like they\u2019ve settled for one.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min: Gomez looks to have burst past Rogers down the right, but when he should cross, he loses control of his feet and falls over. Goal kick. There will be three additional minutes \u2026 then penalties?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 88 min: It\u2019s all very scrappy now. Nerves a-jangling.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 86 min: Wirtz battles down the left and earns a corner out of not very much. Tsimikas takes. Mac Allister tries to get a shot away on the edge of the D, but can\u2019t connect. Penders eventually claims.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 85 min: Barco floats a diagonal towards Rogers on the right-hand edge of the six-yard box. Rogers shanks a volley into the Kop. The tension at Anfield is palpable, and to think some people kid on they don\u2019t care about the League Cup.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 84 min: Gakpo cuts in from the left and shoots. It\u2019s weak, deflected, and easy for Penders.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 83 min: Mac Allister and Isak come on for Nyoni and Ngumoha.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 82 min: That Wirtz scuff hit Colwill\u2019s arm, but even if VAR was on duty tonight, it would have been a harsh penalty call. Both players were so close together and Colwill\u2019s arm was right by his side.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 81 min: A miserable 60 seconds for Wirtz, who scuffs at Gakpo\u2019s downward header, allowing Colwill to block from six yards when he really should have scored. Then another phase of play, and Wirtz clanks a heavy pass out for a goal kick while trying to release Barcola into the box.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 79 min: Sunderland have got over the line: they\u2019ve beaten Brentford 3-2. And they\u2019re joined in the quarter-final pot by Crystal Palace, who have won at Fulham 1-0. A reminder that the draw is scheduled to take place at 10.20pm UK time, and we\u2019ll be all over that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78 min: Chelsea<\/a> are getting on top at Anfield. Rogers slips Palestra into space down the inside-left channel, and the resulting shot forces Mamardashvili into a strong tip around the post. And from the corner, Colwill eyebrows towards the top-right corner. Just wide. So close.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 77 min: \u2026 nothing much occurs. Brentford have pulled another goal back at Sunderland through Igor Thiago, but with the scoreline 3-2 and five minutes of extra time played, is it too late?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 76 min: Bournemouth are also in the quarters. They\u2019ve sealed a 3-0 win over Aston Villa. Meanwhile at Anfield, the lively Emegha earns a corner down the right, from which \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 74 min: Liverpool<\/a> launch a four-on-three counter. Gravenberch has options \u2026 but clanks a dismal pass towards nobody in particular. Anfield groans \u2026 while the Etihad celebrates, Manchester City having just beaten Brighton 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n The fairytale continues. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.39 EDT<\/p>\n 73 min: Ngumoha dribbles hard down the middle and is clipped from behind by Lavia, who goes into the book. A few nerves around Anfield now, as both teams and sets of fans glance at the clock.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 72 min: Van Dijk \u2013 whose last act was to be shoved in the chest in a slightly unnecessary style by the eager sub Emegha \u2013 is replaced by Jacquet. No injury from the shove, to be clear.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71 min: The game between Manchester City and Brighton has gone to penalties: 2-2 after full time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 70 min: Liverpool<\/a> stroke it around the back awhile, as both teams size up all those changes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 68 min: Chelsea<\/a> make a triple change. Caicedo, Gusto and Welbeck make way for Palestra, Barco and Emegha.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 67 min: Gakpo yanks Lavia to the ground, 35 yards out in a central position. He\u2019s fortunate not to go into the book. But it is a free kick in a promising position for Chelsea<\/a>. Henderson has a look, then defers to Rogers \u2026 who lumps a dismal effort deep into the Kop.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 65 min: Barcola sashays in from the right and swivels, aiming a low drive towards the bottom right. Penders tips around the post, another fine save by a young keeper who had a mare against Spurs last weekend. He\u2019s not one of the most-touted goalkeeping prospects for nothing.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 63 min: Neto swings a free kick in from the left. Araujo clatters the ball clear, prepared to take Henderson with him if needs be. Fortunately not mistimed. It\u2019ll be quite the scene if he gets one wrong by a split second.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62 min: Gomez crosses from the right. Araujo, alone 12 yards out, powers a header straight at Penders, who parries with a strong hand. Araujo should have scored. Chelsea<\/a> counter immediately through Rogers, who nips in from the left and sees his shot deflected over. Nothing comes of the corner, but this game is finally threatening to spark into life.<\/p>\n