Beth Lindop Oct 28, 2026, 08:20 PM ET

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Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN's Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.

LIVERPOOL -- Giorgi Mamardashvili arrived to conduct his post-match media duties with a red-and-white scarf slung around his neck. Moments earlier, the Liverpool goalkeeper had been mobbed on the pitch by his teammates after his penalty shootout heroics had helped the Reds triumph over Chelsea to reach the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup .

It had largely been an attritional slog of a game, with neither side able to produce a winner after Morgan Rogers and Cody Gakpo had both converted from the penalty spot in the first-half.…