Anyway. almost every Liverpool fan in the country expected tonight's League Cup encounter against Carlisle United to be an easy one. How wrong they were.
You must give a huge amount of credit to The Cumbrians, who sustained an incredible amount of pressure throughout to send the game to penalties. Liverpool took the lead through Danny Ings in the 24th minute but Carlisle responded promisingly as Ghanian Derek Asamoah levelled the tie ten minutes before half-time.