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Published 11:06 IST, October 31st 2019

Carabao Cup: Liverpool vs Arsenal player ratings, match report

Carabao Cup: Anfield witnessed yet another thrilling encounter as the home side overcame Arsenal in a high scoring fixture to book a quarterfinal berth

Reported by: Sujay Chakraborty
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Liverpool and Arsenal had an absolutely thrilling contest when they met on Wednesday night. The match saw five goals apiece in a game where both sides threw defending out of the window. In the end, penalties were required to separate the sides as 90 minutes couldn't do so.

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Carabao Cup: Liverpool vs Arsenal match report

Despite getting the opening goal, Liverpool found themselves 3-1 behind before the 40th minute. But the home side did not back down and eventually found themselves 4-4 by the 62nd minute. It was pretty evident that defenders from both the sides were having a horror show while attackers were thriving. Joseph Willock put Arsenal ahead once again in the 70th minute to make the score 5-4 to the visitors. But just as it looked Arsenal have managed to stun Anfield, Divock Origi; the man for big occasions once again popped up and drew Liverpool level with a fine acrobatic strike. The game ended at 5-5. Onto penalties now.

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The penalties, however, allowed the youngsters to show their mental fortitude as Daniel Ceballos saw his penalty saved by Caoimhin Kelleher and 18-year-old Curtis Jones converted his effort to send Anfield into ecstasy. And just like that Liverpool were heading to the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup.

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Carabao Cup: Liverpool vs Arsenal player ratings

Liverpool

Caoimhin Kelleher: 7/10

Neco Williams: 7/10

Joseph Gomez: 5/10

Sepp van den Berg: /10

James Milner: 6/10

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: 7/10

Adam Lallana: 6/10

Naby Keita: 5/10

Harvey Elliott: 8/10

Rhian Brewster: 7.510

Divock Origi: 8.5/10

Substitutes

Curtis Jones: 8/10

Pedro Chirivella: NA

Arsenal

Emiliano Martinez: 6/10

Sead Kolasinac: 5/10

Rob Holding: 5/10

Shkodran Mustafi: 4/10

Hector Bellerin: 7/10

Lucas Torreira: 7/10

Ainsley Maitland-Niles: 7/10

Mesut Ozil: 8/10

Bukayo Saka: 7/10

Joseph Willock: 7/10

Gabriel Martinelli: 8/10

Substitutes

Matteo Guendouzi: 6/10

Daniel Ceballos: 5/10

Kieran Tierney: NA

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06:56 IST, October 31st 2019