Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties to win FA Cup 2022 title.
German man Add the FA Cup title to his collections. Jürgen Klopp has now won every major title for Liverpool.
A 6-5 victory over Chelsea on penalties in Saturday’s final produced Liverpool’s first FA Cup triumph since 2006 and kept it in contention for, potentially if unlikely, a quadruple of trophies.
Reds were helped by Chelsea midfielder Mason Mason’s penalty being saved before Konstantinos Tsimikas clinched the shootout win with his first-ever goal for the club.
Liverpool had the better of an eventful final, with the outstanding Luis Diaz and Andrew Robertson hitting the woodwork, although it may come at a price with Mohamed Salah going off injured in the first half and Virgil van Dijk going off after 90 minutes.
Best Stats from Liverpool after winning the Historic 2022 FA Cup Final.
- There was only more Wembley pain for Chelsea. Weeks of ownership turmoil for Chelsea are ending by becoming the first team to lose three consecutive FA Cup final appearances, having been beaten by Arsenal in 2020 and Leicester last year.
- The final of world football’s oldest competition had never gone to penalties before at Wembley.
- There hadn’t even been a goalless final after extra time since it started being played at the national stadium in 1923.
- But Liverpool’s last FA Cup success in 2006 was in one of the two previous shootouts that settled the cup final that both happened in Cardiff while Wembley was being rebuilt.
- And for only the second time — after Arsenal’s 2005 meeting with Manchester United in Cardiff — an FA Cup final ended 0-0 after extra time.
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