Liverpool: The League Cup Story | Episode 4: 2003 | The Forgotten Final
The Redmen TV - Liverpool FC Podcast
The Redmen TV - Liverpool FC Podcast
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Sunday the 26th of February 2012, and the man whose goal had led Liverpool to their first League Cup win 31 years earlier now lead the side out in the Final as manager. Kenny Dalglish, who had returned the Anfield dugout a year earlier, faced off against Malkay Mackay’s Cardiff City. Joe Mason fired Cardiff into a early lead before Liverpool’s eventual player of the season Martin Skrtel scrambled the ball home to level things up. Despite pressure from Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez, Liverpool couldn’t find the decisive goal, and the game headed to extra time. Substitute Dirk Kuyt found his shot from distance blocked back into his path, and at full stretch managed to power it back at goal, rifling it into the bottom corner. The drama did not end there though, and after a melee in the box, a Cardiff corner was turned past Pepe Reina by Ben Turner in the 118th minute to send the game to penalties. Kuyt, man of the match Stewart Downing and Glen Johnson all converted, and with a final miss from Anthony Gerrard, cousin of the Liverpool skipper, the Reds lifted the trophy for a record extending 8th time. As Steven Gerrard lifted the trophy in Cardiff, few knew that it would be their last silverware for seven years…
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| 0:40.3 | Hope you enjoy this podcast that's about to start right now. the 2nd of March 2003 and once again Gerard Ullie's Liverpool were back at Cardiff's Millennium |
| 0:56.9 | Stadium this time against the bitterest of rivals Alex Ferguson's Manchester United. Due to bad weather conditions the game |
| 1:04.6 | would be played with the stadium roof closed the first time in English |
| 1:08.8 | football that a final was played indoors. The sealed environment only added to the intent atmosphere as a |
| 1:14.9 | Stephen Gerard thunderbolt deflected of David Beckerman into the top corner. A man of |
| 1:20.0 | a match performance from Jersey duet kept the United Barrage of Bay until the 86th minute |
| 1:26.0 | when Michael Owen streaked onto Deep Mahaman's throughball to swap past Fabian Barthes and put the game to bed. |
| 1:34.2 | Flanked by Jamie Carrigger Captain Sammy Hippia lifted |
| 1:37.4 | Liverpool's seventh league in the Premier League. It. It was a big sublet of transfer business |
| 1:55.6 | and it's one that kind of goes down in infamy, really. |
| 1:58.9 | For me, definitely. |
| 1:59.9 | And what I remember really at the end of 2002 we had a really good end to that season. |
| 2:08.0 | There was kind of an elk could come in on loan. |
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