Chelsea vs Liverpool LIVE: FA Cup final result, final score and reaction as Liverpool win penalty shootout
Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool (Liverpool win 6-5 on penalties): Follow reaction from Wembley as Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties
Liverpool have won the FA Cup after beating Chelsea on penalties at Wembley. Kostas Tsimikas scored the winning penalty in sudden-death, after Alisson saved from Mason Mount.
Liverpool and Chelsea met in a rematch of February’s Carabao Cup final, and this encounter played out in remarkably similar fashion. Both sides had several opportunities to win the match in normal time and althought the frantic nature of the contest slowed in extra time, it followed 90 breathless minutes at Wembley.
Liverpool made a bright start and threatened early through Luis Diaz, who was denied by Edouard Mendy in the first chance of the match, but Chelsea came back into it in what was a level first half. Alisson also made a good save to stop Marcos Alonso while Christian Pulisic and substitute Diogo Jota had chances, but it was an injury to Mohamed Salah that was the most notable incident of the first half, with the Liverpool forward coming off on 32 minutes with a groin problem.
It was Chelsea’s turn to start quickly after the break, as Alonso went close and Alisson saved Pulisic’s effort, before Alonso hit the crossbar with a free-kick. Diaz and Jota were next to whistle shots narrowly wide, and then Andy Robertson hit the post with a volley from close range. As the final crept closer to extra time, Diaz curled a shot narrowly wide on the breakaway to almost win the final in the closing seconds.
Follow reaction from Chelsea vs Liverpool in the 2022 FA Cup final, below:
ET Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
93 mins: Reece James shimmies his way through midfield and slides a pass in behind Jordan Henderson to send Christian Pulisic sprinting into space. He carries the ball into the box but is met by the covering Joel Matip who takes the ball off him with seeming ease. Good defending.
ET Kick off: Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
Joel Matip is brought on to replace Virgil Van Dijk for Liverpool. This is Matip’s first appearance in the FA Cup this season. It’s all still to play for as extra time gets started.
Christian Pulisic kicks off for Chelsea.
Full-time: Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
90+3 mins: Perhaps inevitably given the previous results between Chelsea and Liverpool this season the FA Cup final is heading to extra-time.
Liverpool ending the second half looking the most likely team to score but they’ll have to dig in and come again. 30 more minutes to play.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
90 mins: That’s the chance! Luis Diaz wins an aerial ball and shifts in behind Trevoh Chalobah. Thiago Silva forces him into the left side of the box but he shimmies inside and curls a right-footed effort inches wide of the back post!
Three minutes of added time to play.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
88 mins: Alexander-Arnold’s free kick picks out Virgil van Dijk at the far post but the defender can’t control the ball under pressure and heads it out for a goal kick.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
85 mins: Hakim Ziyech replaces Romelu Lukaku for Chelsea with just over five minutes of the 90 plus stoppage time to play.
Mount fouls Alexander-Arnold and Liverpool have a free kick in a dangerous area. High up the pitch on the right side.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
84 mins: Off the post! Jota finds Mane who puts the ball in the box for Diaz. He blasts one towards the near post, beats Mendy for pace and rattles his effort into the outside of the woodwork!
And again! James Milner curls one in from the right side this time and the ball drops for Robertson on the volley. He doesn’t catch it well and guides his chance onto the post too!
How have Liverpool not scored there?
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
81 mins: The free kick is floated in by Robertson but is professionally dealt with by Chelsea. They work the ball up the pitch and Thiago Silva flicks a pass over the top to find Marcos Alonso in the box. He squares it hoping to pick out Lukaku but the pass comes too close to Alisson who drops low and smothers the ball.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
78 mins: Liverpool defend the set piece and break brilliantly. Diogo Jota drives the ball through the middle and has options on both sides. Henderson is wide open on the right but he decides to go left towards Diaz and the pass is intercepted. Alexander-Arnold wins it back for the Reds and lays the ball off to Thiago who gets clattered by Reece James. James goes in the book and Liverpool are awarded a free kick.
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