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:
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
75 mins: 15 minutes to play before extra-time at Wembley. Mount gives the ball to Kante who guides it into the box for Pulisic. Pulisic takes over possession but Alexander-Arnold arrives on his blindside and pokes the ball behind for a Chelsea corner. Their first of the game.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
72 mins: Naby Keita gets replaced with James Milner for Liverpool. The Reds win a throw in high up the pitch as Antonio Rudiger nods Thiago’s cross field pass out of play.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
69 mins: Close! Reece James sets up Christian Pulisic for a shot from the edge of the box and he curls his chance achingly wide of the right hand post.
Liverpool then burst down to the other side of the pitch and give the ball to Luis Diaz. He cuts inside and guides an effort of his own just over the far top corner.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
66 mins: Save! Thiago flicks the ball over to Keita who chests it down into the right side of the box. He lets it bounce then rattles a shot at goal but Mendy drops low to his right and keeps it out.
Mateo Kovacic is taken off by Thomas Tuchel and is replaced with N’Golo Kante.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
63 mins: Robertson sees a cross headed behind by Alonso who gives Liverpool a corner. Thiago rolls it short to Alexander-Arnold whose cross from the opposite wing is too heavy to pick out a teammate.
After a rapid start to the second half from Chelsea, Liverpool are feeding their feet in this game again. Still no goals though and as time ticks on whoever scores first will have a huge advantage in this final.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
60 mins: Chance! Sadio Mane wins the ball from a Chelsea throw in and pokes it to Robertson before drifting inside and receiving it back. He gives it to Keita who threads the ball into the right side of the box where Jota brings it under control and drills a shot across goal and sends it narrowly wide of the back post!
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
57 mins: Reece James curls a cross in from the right wing and almost sets up Marcos Alonso by the far post but the Chelsea wingback can’t quite reach the ball.
Earlier Trent Alexander-Arnold put in a last minute block to stop another through ball reaching Christian Pulisic inside the six-yard box and Liverpool scrambled it away. Chelsea are hunting down the opening goal.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
54 mins: Marcos Alonso is having a decent game. He gets forward on the left and brings cross field pass under control but swinging an early ball into the box for Romelu Lukaku. The forward tries to get his head to the ball but Alisson is quickly off his line to pluck the ball out of the air.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
51 mins: Chance! Naby Keita is marshalled out of the Chelsea box with the ball and decides to pass it back to Trent Alexander-Arnold who swings a first time cross over to the back post. It flies over the head of Sadio Mane, passes Reece James and hits Andy Robertson in the chest before bouncing out of play. Robertson wasn’t expecting James to miss it and he puts his head in his hands over an opportunity missed.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Liverpool
48 mins: Chance! What a start this is from Chelsea. Marcos Alonso fires a shot wide of goal before Christian Pulisic draws a low save out of Alisson. The Blues have started the second half in a blistering mood.
Reece James is taken out deep down the right wing and Chelsea win a free kick .
Off the woodwork! Marcos Alonso saunters over to take the set piece and curls his effort over Alisson before rattling it into the crossbar and seeing the ball bounce clear. Liverpool are rocking here.
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