In numerical superiority for 70 minutes, the Reds did not manage to make the difference.
Zero goals scored. This is only the second time in 25 games that Liverpool have failed to score. In this semi-final first leg of the League Cup (postponed match), the Reds experienced all the difficulties in the world to push the ball into the back of Aaron Ramsdale’s net.
Minamino, Firmino and Jota, the three offensive starters of Jürgen Klopp’s 4-3-3, have tried everything. Combinations, strikes, dangerous crosses… But nothing succeeded in making the Gunners waver… reduced to ten after only 24 minutes following the expulsion of Granit Xhaka.
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