Liverpool’s starting eleven for their Carabao cup fixture against Arsenal contained five players aged 20 and under — including 16-year-old Harvey Elliott — with goalkeeper Adrian the only senior player on a substitute bench of kids.
The Arsenal team was pretty much the same .
They produced a game in which each team scored 5 goals – the last equaliser being scored for Liverpool in the last minute or so of injury time.
Liverpool went ahead on penalties. Despite Arsenal’s heroic performance Emery’s performance as Wenger’s replacement is not judged to be so heroic.
And despite that fabulous win Klopp is threatening to pull his team out of the Carabao Cup.
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