At five o’clock in the evening, Sunday, Wembley Stadium will host the final match of the English League Cup, the Carabao Cup, which will bring together Liverpool, which includes the professional Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, with its counterpart, Chelsea, in an awaited confrontation between the two teams.
The Liverpool team qualified for the final match of the current edition of the English League Cup, after defeating the Fulham team, in the semi-finals, with a score of 3-2 on aggregate, while Chelsea reached, at the expense of the Middlesbrough team, with a score of 6-2 on the aggregate of the two home and away matches.
Liverpool has the record for winning the Carabao Cup, with 9 titles, the last of which was during the 2021-2022 season, while Chelsea won the championship 5 times, the last of which was in the 2014-2015 season, while Manchester United was the champion of the last edition of the tournament.
Egyptian star Mohamed Salah is waiting to win his eighth title with Liverpool in various competitions, as he won the English League Cup on two occasions, with a title with both Liverpool and Chelsea.
The Reds enter tonight’s match with a long list of injuries, which puts the team’s coach, Jurgen Klopp, in a big dilemma, as he is missing many of his stars such as Alisson, Jota, Doc, Jones, Trent, Matip, Paicic and Thiago Alcantara, while he will wait until the last minute to decide. Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez and Soboslai participate in the final.
The same thing is happening to the Blues team, which is missing many of its players due to injuries before tonight’s confrontation, such as Mark Cucurella, Benoit Badiashile, Carne Chukwuemeka, Wesley Fofana, Reece James, Romeo Lafia, and Leslie Ogochukwu, while doubts loom over the participation of Brazilian Thiago Silva.
The two teams faced off in the final match of the English League Cup on two occasions, the first in 2005, and Chelsea succeeded in winning the title by three goals to two, and Liverpool won the title of the 2022 edition, at the expense of Chelsea, on penalties, with a score of 11-10.
