Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher covered the Carabao Cup final for Sky Sports, and their disbelief grew through the game at the efforts from Chelsea to win the game late on.
Liverpool had an increasingly weak team out there, but Mauricio Pochettino’s men simply didn’t go on the front foot and hurt them. They just waited for the Reds to score, which they finally did just before the end of extra time.
Jamie Carragher referred to the Liverpool team by the end as “Klopp’s kids,” and Neville went one further:
“You called them Klopp’s kids. In extra time it’s been Klopp’s kids against the blue billion pound bottle jobs,” he said of Chelsea.
It’s hard to disagree with that. Maybe it’s just the emotion of the moment, but we’re pretty furious about the capitulation we just witnessed.
Conor Gallagher and Nicolas Jackson were the engine of the team, and once they were off there was nothing left. There were so many scared faces out there in the final stages – and they weren’t the raw kids in Red, they were those on the faces of big money signings, as Neville pointed out.
SuperFrank, you’re a disgrace for calling that performance “cowardly.” An absolute disgrace.
Gallagher was dead on his feet a good 10 minutes before Poch pulled him off and the manager obviously thought Mudryk might be able to get in behind a tired Liverpool back line with Jackson having already run a full race and then some. To question those subs is to contradict what you said in another post where you called out Poch for making “excuses” about his tired squad. It’s total hypocrisy on your part. (But what’s new?!)
And to side with Gary Neville—who’s obviously trying to stir controversy with such an inflammatory (and off base) comment—is pathetic. Our boys showed courage and industry today and they deserve better from a so-called supporter.