Two first-half penalties, then Liverpool won the shootout

Liverpool and Chelsea drew 1-1 at Anfield, with both goals from the spot before half-time, and Liverpool won the shootout that followed.

Morgan Rogers put Chelsea ahead from the spot in the 40th minute, and Cody Gakpo levelled from the spot three minutes later. Neither side scored again in the 90 minutes, so the League Cup tie went to a penalty shootout, a run of alternate spot-kicks that decides a drawn match. Liverpool came out on top, scoring six of their eight kicks to Chelsea's five from seven.

Neither side lost a player to a red card, so both finished with eleven men, and each picked up two yellow cards along the way. Gakpo, who levelled in the first half, scored again in the shootout, so the two penalties he took were the two that mattered most to his side's hopes.

Across the 90 minutes Liverpool had ten shots and Chelsea had eleven. The league average is 13.5 shots per side, so both were below it, yet both made chances of above-average quality. Expected goals, a measure that scores each chance by how often such a shot tends to go in, gave Liverpool 2.19 and Chelsea 1.88, against a league average of 1.71.

Chelsea's shooting was the less accurate of the two. Both sides managed the same number of efforts on target, but Chelsea sent four of their shots off target, against one from Liverpool. Eight of Liverpool's shots and eight of Chelsea's came from inside the box, so the difference lay in where the efforts went rather than how close they were.

Liverpool had the ball 52% of the time to Chelsea's 48%, a split close enough to call even. Liverpool completed 347 of 441 passes and Chelsea 334 of 422, so both sides kept possession with almost the same accuracy, and neither gained much ground on the other in that department.

Morgan Rogers was the most involved player for Chelsea, with six shots, two on target, three successful dribbles and the penalty that opened the scoring. His rating of 7.6 was the highest of any player in the match listings. W. Fofana won nine duels, the most of any player listed, which shows how much of the contest was fought for the ball in the air and on the ground.

Liverpool have won five of their last six matches, losing only one, and they have conceded ten goals across that same run.

Player of the matchM. Rogers1 goal7.6

C. Gakpo1 goal7.2

V. van Dijk72 minutes6.8

W. Fofana9 duels won6.8