Carabao Cup Round-up: Tottenham Hotspur beat Chelsea to reach quarter-final

Tottenham Hotspur secured the first Carabao Cup quarter-final ticket this season as they beat Chelsea 5-4 on penalties after Erik Lamela’s 83rd-minute equaliser saw the game end in a 1-1 draw.

Chelsea’s new man Timo Werner scored the first goal of the game in the 19 minutes as the Blues enjoyed a positive first half. It was also the German’s first goal for the club since his summer move, firing past Hugo Lloris.

But Tottenham returned after the break the more improved side and deserved their equaliser as Lamela swept home from debutant Sergio Reguilon’s cross with just seven minutes to play to send the game into penalties.

The first nine players scored while Mason Mount who took the visitors’ fifth spot-kick skewed his effort wide off the crossbar to send Tottenham into the quarter-finals despite Chelsea leading for 83 minutes.

Watch the match highlights below

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Jose Mourinho says after the game: “I told you before the game we would be ready to fight and we were ready to fight. I told the players before the penalties that I don’t care about the penalties, I care about what we did before.

“We were the best team, we were magnificent. In the second half a super team like Chelsea looked very ordinary, and they are not. We played so, so well.

“I told the players they should only think about this game, but I have to think about three games at the same time. They only thought about this game and they were phenomenal, so all credit to the boys.

“I have an incredibly negative record on penalty shootouts, but today I had a feeling that everything was going well. We were by far the best team and the boys deserved to win the match.”

Frank Lampard in a post-match interview says: “You get to penalties and anything can happen at that stage. You want to stay in these competitions of course, but there was some really good bits in our performance.

“The first half was as dominant as you can get in terms of possession. You want to create more chances, yes, but Tottenham were out of of the game. In the second half, they messed our game up a bit, but with the control we had before then we wanted to score more goals or that can happen.

“When teams go long and miss your press and turn you round the other way it’s not easy to get the fluidity and rhythm going. It was a clear change of tactic from them, and it’s something we need to deal better with.

“We looked tired at the end which was understandable given where we are at. Timo Werner had some cramping at the end so he didn’t take a penalty.”

Stats and facts from the match (Backed by Opta)

• Jose Mourinho has progressed from 26 of his 31 League Cup ties, with this the first time he has ever progressed via a penalty shootout in the competition, losing his previous three.
• Jose Mourinho has faced Frank Lampard four times without winning in his managerial career (D2 L2) – twice as many as he has faced any other manager without registering at least one win.
• Only Robert Lewandowski (56), Ciro Immobile and Cristiano Ronaldo (40 each) have score more goals among players in Europe’s top five leagues in all competitions since August 2019 than Timo Werner (35).
• Erik Lamela has been directly involved in six goals in his last four League Cup starts for Tottenham (3 goals, 3 assists).