Liverpool’s 19th major cup final at Wembley
Prediction Cardiff 0 - 3 Liverpool Fc.
*WHEN Steven Gerrard leads the Reds out tomorrow, he will join Tommy Smith as the only Liverpool-born players to skipper their side in major cup finals at Wembley.
*The Reds have played in 10 League Cup finals, 13 if you include their 3 cup final replays. From those 10 finals they’ve won 7 trophies, more than anyone in the competitions history.
*Incredibly, Kenny Dalglish has played in a League Cup final 6 times. 9 times if you count the three cup final replays. He has won the trophy four times. In the 2-1 loss to Arsenal in 1987 he was both manager and player.
*Ian Rush is Liverpool’s highest ever goalscorer in the League Cup, hitting the back of the net 48 times.
*The Reds share a record with West Ham for the highest score in League Cup history, after they battered Fulham 10-0 in 1986.
*Liverpool have scored 427 goals in 211 League Cup games.
*The 2001 final against Birmingham was the only time Liverpool have gone to penalties in a League Cup final. Sander Westerveld made the decisive save in sudden death.
*Liverpool have met Sunday’s opponents — Cardiff City — once before in the League Cup. That was a round four 2-1 victory for the Reds on the 31st of October 2007.
*Should Jamie Carragher feature at any time in the Carling Cup final he will make his 33rd appearance in a League Cup, tying him with former Liverpool winger Steve McManaman at 21st in Liverpool’s all time rankings for League Cup appearances.
*Liverpool have conceded five goals and scored 12 from six games on the road to the final this season.
*Luis Suarez is Liverpool’s top scorer in the competition this year with three.
Via -liverpoolfcnews.net/
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