Liverpool dig deep to overcome tired legs and hand Chelsea record third straight FA Cup final loss

Halfway to an unprecedented quadruple, Liverpool somehow keep finding the will to overcome an exhausting schedule

LONDON -- They may be battered and bruised, their energy levels depleted by a season in which they have played every possible game and, crucially they may now perhaps without another key player, but still the Liverpool machine rolls on. Two trophies down, perhaps two more to go.

As was the case two months ago at Wembley, it took two hours and a penalty shootout for them to get the better of an obdurate Chelsea side, doomed to make history in the FA Cup's 150th year as the first to lose three successive finals. That was a cruel fate on Thomas Tuchel and his players after what he noted had been "240 minutes of final time, played 0-0 against maybe the best attacking team in Europe," he said.

"We deserved it, as they did as well." It is a testament, then, to the historic caliber of this Liverpool side that Jurgen Klopp now has his eyes on something rather more remarkable than just the trophy that completed his collection after less than seven years on Merseyside.