The FA Cup, for most of the present Liverpool squad, is the one trophy they haven’t received up to now at Anfield.
Jurgen Klopp‘s males tackle Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday afternoon, trying to win each home trophies for the primary time since 2000/01, and for simply the second time of their historical past.
The Reds have received the FA Cup seven instances, however the newest success was, extremely, 16 years in the past.
The final 5 finals the Reds have performed within the competitors have resulted in three wins and two defeats.
Right here’s a glance again at what occurred in these final 5 FA Cup finals for LFC:
Liverpool 1-2 Chelsea (2012)
Is it actually a decade since Liverpool final appeared in an FA Cup closing? The place does the time go?
The Reds got here up in opposition to Chelsea again in 2012 as Sir Kenny Dalglish‘s facet seemed so as to add one other trophy to the League Cup, sealed three months earlier.
Sadly, it was the Blues who prevailed at Wembley, taking the lead by means of Ramires, earlier than Didier Drogba, so typically Liverpool’s scourge, made it 2-0.
Andy Carroll’s aim gave the Merseysiders hope and he thought he had equalised with a header that Petr Cech by some means saved out.
Did it cross the road? We’ll by no means know. But it surely felt just like the footballing Gods have been attempting to even out the Luis Garcia “ghost aim” from 2005.
Liverpool’s first Cup closing look on the new Wembley had not been a contented one.
Liverpool beginning XI: Reina; Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Enrique; Spearing, Henderson, Gerrard; Downing, Bellamy, Suarez.
Liverpool 3-3 West Ham – 3-1 on penalties (2006)
Cardiff was an excellent venue within the years that Wembley was being rebuilt, particularly for Liverpool.
The Reds loved a lot success in Wales and this conquer West Ham in 2006 stays one in all the nice FA Cup finals.
Fairly what occurred to Rafa Benitez’s facet within the opening half-hour we’ll by no means know, however they discovered themselves 2-0 down, not helped by a calamitous Jamie Carragher personal aim.
The Reds battled again and made it 2-2, just for future Anfield flop Paul Konchesky to ship a looping cross into the web.
It was left to Steven Gerrard to attain probably his most iconic aim in a profession plagued by them, taking the sport to extra-time with a still-unfathomable strike.
Pepe Reina did the remaining within the subsequent penalty shootout, making three saves, and Liverpool had received their seventh, and nonetheless most up-to-date, FA Cup crown.
Liverpool beginning XI: Reina; Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia, Riise; Gerrard, Alonso, Sissoko, Kewell; Cisse, Crouch.
Liverpool 2-1 Arsenal (2001)
There was a time when Michael Owen was unstoppable on a soccer pitch.
The calendar 12 months of 2001, when he received the Ballon d’Or, was arguably his absolute peak, and his FA Cup closing heroics in opposition to Arsenal won’t ever be forgotten.
Liverpool have been clear underdogs in opposition to an exquisite Gunners facet and Arsene Wenger’s facet utterly dominated proceedings in a red-hot Cardiff.
The Reds had luck on their facet, nevertheless, with Stephane Henchoz lucky to not be despatched off for a handball on the road.
Then Owen twice struck clinically late on to show the sport on its head – his winner, and the celebrations that adopted, are nonetheless legendary to this present day.
Liverpool beginning XI: Westerveld; Babbel, Hyypia, Henchoz, Carragher; Murphy, Gerrard, Hamann, Smicer; Heskey, Owen.
Liverpool 0-1 Man United (1996)
As FA Cup finals go, that is about as miserable because it will get for Liverpool of their historical past.
Having missed out on the Premier League title to Man United, Roy Evans’ ‘Spice Boys’ have been hoping to beat their rivals at Wembley, fancying their probabilities, too.
An terrible closing performed out, although, with nearly nothing of word taking place earlier than Eric Cantona broke Reds’ hearts late within the day.
From the second the gamers appeared in these cream fits, you feared the worst, and issues didn’t get any higher on the pitch.
That mid-90s facet was filled with particular expertise however lacked substance, failing to recover from the end line time and time once more.
Liverpool beginning XI: James; Wright, Scales, Babb; McAteer, Redknapp, Barnes, Jones, McManaman; Collymore, Fowler.
Liverpool 2-0 Sunderland (1992)
That is arguably Liverpool’s least-cherished FA Cup win, coming at a time when the glory days have been properly and really over.
Graeme Souness was overseeing a fractious interval within the membership’s historical past 30 years in the past, however they did no less than get pleasure from a optimistic outing in opposition to Sunderland.
Michael Thomas opened the scoring for Liverpool earlier than Ian Rush scored his customary FA Cup closing aim – he bagged 5 general in his glittering profession.
It was the one trophy the Reds would win between 1990 and 1995 and it was one other 9 years earlier than they tasted success within the competitors once more.
Liverpool beginning XI: Grobbelaar; Jones, Nicol, Wright, Burrows; Houghton, Molby, Thomas, McManaman; Saunders, Rush.
