Eden Hazard’s brilliant goal sends Chelsea past Liverpool and into League Cup fourth round

It is more than likely that when these clubs dine together again in the west of London on Saturday night, the only players that started here but present at the table there will be James Milner, Sadio Mane, César Azpilicueta and Mateo Kovacic.

What this absorbing cup tie revealed was not which appetite runs deeper in terms of squads and rather that a team containing Eden Hazard has the capacity to consume the other even when you do not see it coming.

The Belgian’s winning goal here late in a second half that Liverpool dominated was jaw-dropping. It would be inaccurate to say Jordan Henderson, Fabinho and Naby Keita had tried to stop him because they were not really there as he swanned past. He would turn Alberto Moreno inside out twice before accelerating. Anfield could not have witnessed many shots as ferocious the one that followed.

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