Liverpool vs Leicester LIVE: Carabao Cup result, final score and penalty shootout tonight
Relive all the action from a thrilling EFL Cup quarter-final at Anfield
Second-choice goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher saved two penalties in the shoot-out which Liverpool won 5-4 against Leicester to send them into the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.
Substitute Diogo Jota struck the winning spot-kick - having come off the bench to score - but the real hero was Takumi Minamino who made it 3-3 with seconds remaining of six added minutes.
The visitors crumbled under the pressure exerted in the second half having twice cruised into a two-goal lead as Jamie Vardy scored his ninth and 10th goals in 14 appearances against the under-strength Reds.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain briefly made it 2-1 before a brilliant James Maddison strike restored the Foxes’ advantage.
However, the introduction of first-team reinforcements for the second half changed the dynamic as Jota and League Cup specialist Minamino, with his sixth in five appearances, forced a shoot-out. Relive all the action below:
Penalties: Liverpool 4 - 4 Leicester
Ryan Bertrand is next up for Leicester. He goes low to Kelleher’s left and the goalkeeper saves it!
Jota can win it for Liverpool.
Penalties: Liverpool 4 - 4 Leicester
NO! He smokes his penalty over the bar! It’s sudden death.
Penalties: Liverpool 4 - 4 Leicester
Iheanacho scores! Minamino is up for Liverpool. He scored the equaliser right at the end of the 90. Can he send them into the semi-finals?
Penalties: Liverpool 4 - 3 Leicester
Naby Keita scores! Leicester have to score now, Kelechi Iheanacho is going to take it.
Penalties: Liverpool 3 - 3 Leicester
Luke Thomas misses! Or rather Kelleher leaps to his left and keeps Thomas’s penalty out! Advantage Liverpool!
Penalties: Liverpool 3 - 3 Leicester
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain continues the scoring run. Schmeichel chose the correct side again but couldn’t reach it.
Penalties: Liverpool 2 - 3 Leicester
Marc Albrighton goes for power and boots it straight down the middle to score.
Penalties: Liverpool 2 - 2 Leicester
Schmeichel gets a hand to it but can’t keep out Roberto Firmino’s spot kick!
Penalties: Liverpool 1 - 2 Leicester
Straight and high from James Maddison puts Leicester back in front.
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