Stuart Downing shared his experience and what it meant for the Merseyside club to be crowned Carling Cup champions.
Liverpool were made to work extremely hard for their first trophy in six years by a Cardiff City as both sides were adamant on ensuring that they went home with the silverware on a memorable night at Wembley.
The Reds fell behind midway through the second half as Cardiff City found their way through the Liverpool defence and managed to put the ball past http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pepe-Reina-c29672.
The seven time champions of the tournament had to wait until the hour mark before Martin Skrtel stabbed the ball home from close range to level the scores.
Cardiff had a great chance to snatch the game late on but could not capitalize on the situation which meant that the game was destined for Extra time.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dirk-Kuyt-c11348 gave Liverpool the lead only for Cardiff to equalize late on. The resulting penalty shoot-out saw Liverpool miss the least from the spot and were crowned champions.
One of the players who scored in the nervy shoot-out was Stuart Downing and his spot kick set up the win for the Reds.
Commenting on his first trophy for the club, Downing said, “I came to Liverpool to win trophies and to get one within six or seven months was absolutely brilliant.”
He continued, “It was a long afternoon, up and down and it could have (gone) either way, credit to Cardiff they pushed us all the way even in penalties.”
Downing also took a moment to share what it meant to the players, “Afterwards in the dressing room it was brilliant, as you can imagine. For a lot of the lads it was their first trophy in English football, some of them had been at Liverpool for five
or six years.”
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 shirt since he signed for the club in the summer.
Downing had a poor start to his Liverpool career yet has been finding his form in recent weeks and the Reds’ fans will be hoping he hits top gear once again against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 on the weekend.
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