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The substitute goalkeeper of Liverpool is the king of the League Cup. Won 4 penalty shootouts in a row, updated club records

The League Cup for the English top started hard: Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham were eliminated in the first match. Close to this was also Liverpool against Derby County brought to a penalty shootout.

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True, Jurgen Klopp initially released a maximum of mostbet-az-90.com updated squad: young Calvin Ramsey, Stefan Baicetic, Bobby Clark, Fabio Carvalho, Leighton Stewart and Melkamu Frauendorf. The boys, reinforced by Gomez, Tsimikas and Oxlade-Chamberlain, controlled the ball well, but could not really create chances.

In the end, Roberto Firmino and Darwin Nunez appeared, but they could not finish finishing 0:0. Here the 23-year-old goalkeeper Quivin Kelleher had to take the rap for everyone. And the guy did it: he took three hits out of five and pulled, the Derby players hit right on target.

Kelleher is already a Liverpool record holder. Breaking two records in 18 matches

Thanks to the victory over Derby, Kelleher updated several Liverpool club records at the age of 23:

Quivin now won four penalty shootouts for the club (out of four possible). No goalkeeper has won more in Liverpool's 130-year history;

In these series, Kelleher took six shots again, in the post-match penalties, no Reds goalkeeper took so many. Yes, Dudek, Reina, Allisson, Grobbelaar have less (Pepe Reina has five);

In addition, the Irishman even scored, you remember that it was his shot that brought victory in last year's League Cup final against Chelsea.

I've always said that the League Cup gave me a lot of opportunities to play. Therefore, every time I play in the cup, I want to go further because it will give me the opportunity to play another match, the goalkeeper admitted after a penalty shootout.

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