At last, the Fulham support had a cup tie. Liverpool had scored early through Luis Díaz and, for so long, it felt as though Fulham’s big night was about to fall flat. The concession was a bad one, not a moment that the goalkeeper, Bernd Leno, will enjoy watching back. Or the full-back, Timothy Castagne.
Fulham needed two goals to take this semi-final to extra-time, having lost the first leg 2-1, and it was Liverpool who boasted the assurance. There were long spells when Jürgen Klopp’s team played as though they felt it was their destiny to close in on a record-extending 10th League Cup. Their pressing was suffocating. It also said much that when the Fulham playmaker Andreas Pereira misplaced a pass on 66 minutes, there were boos from the crowd.
