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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liverpool’s dream of completing the quadruple – by winning the Premier League, the League Cup, the FA Cup and the Champions League – is hanging on by a thread.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester City hold a three-point advantage in the Premier League with two of the season’s 38 games to be played. It would take a remarkable collapse by City for Liverpool to win the title.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, Liverpool’s realistic hopes of ending the season with more than one trophy rely on winning one of the three Cup competitions they are still pursuing. The League Cup was won in a dramatic penalty shootout against Chelsea in February, and the sides clash again at Wembley for the FA Cup on Saturday, 14 May.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After that, Liverpool have a trip to Paris for the Champions League final against Spanish giants Real Madrid on 28 May. Because they have reached every Cup final, the Reds will finish the season having played every competitive match they possibly could in 2021/22. They could still come away with four trophies, or just the one. In between it could be two or three.</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n<h4><b>Red attack</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their stellar season might fizzle out, but it could deliver so much success, too. That is the beauty of this campaign and of manager Jürgen Klopp’s team. Liverpool are relentless and have pursued every accolade with a brilliant brand of attacking football and an iron will that has seen them snatch wins from seemingly impossible positions.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FA Cup is the oldest and most prestigious domestic cup competition in the world. But, for a time, Liverpool’s relentless pursuit of ending their Premier League drought, which went from 1990-2020, meant they occasionally relegated the FA Cup to a secondary consideration. This year marks Liverpool’s first final appearance in a decade. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under Klopp, that mentality has changed. Liverpool FC play every match to win and enter in every competition and league with the objective of victory.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But to achieve those ambitions, and meet those self-set standards, requires planning and foresight. You don’t play 63 competitive games in a season, which has included one game every three days for the past two months, without high-quality squad depth.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every player has to be interchangeable with another so that the team is not weakened. 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Virgil van Dijk and goalkeeper Alisson Becker came at a much higher cost — a combined £140-million — but both would be sold for more if they were put on the market tomorrow and they have delivered silverware.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throw in Naby Keïta, Fabinho, Thiago Alcântara, Ibrahima Konaté and Kostas Tsimikas and it’s clear Liverpool have done great business in the transfer market.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It all adds up to Klopp being the first manager of any English side to take his team to all three major cup finals in the same season. All that remains is for Liverpool to win the remaining two. </span><b>DM168</b>\r\n<h3><b>FA CUP STATS</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span></h3>\r\n<b>Team goals in FA Cup 2021/22:</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chelsea (14)\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liverpool (13)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Top goalscorers for the respective teams in FA Cup 2021/22:</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romelu Lukaku (3)\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takumi Minamino (3)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Most FA Cup titles:</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chelsea (8)\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liverpool (7)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Total FA Cup final appearances:</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chelsea (15)\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liverpool (14)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Most FA Cup goals for club:</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liverpool: Ian Rush (39)\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chelsea: Frank Lampard (26)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Last FA Cup final won:</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chelsea (2018)\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liverpool (2006)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Last FA Cup final lost:</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chelsea (2021)\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liverpool (2012)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Last FA Cup final meeting:</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liverpool 1-2 Chelsea (2012)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the 150th anniversary year of the FA Cup, the oldest football </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tournament in the world.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will be the fourth meeting of the season between Liverpool and Chelsea. The other three matches all ended level at full time, despite the Reds lifting the League Cup trophy via penalties in February. </span><b>DM168</b>\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>This story first appeared in our weekly Daily Maverick 168 newspaper, which is available countrywide for R25.</em></p>\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/dm-14052022-t01-indd-2/\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1264240\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DM-14052022-001-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"947\" /></a></p>",
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Liverpool's manager, Jürgen Klopp, reacts against Newcastle during the English Premier League soccer match between Newcastle United and Liverpool FC in Newcastle, Britain, on 30 April 2022. (Photo: EPA-EFE / PETER POWEL)