Declan Rice could solve long-term Liverpool 'problem' as summer striker decisions await

I thought it was a high quality match between arguably two of the top-five sides in European football currently.

The late withdrawal of Thiago wasn’t helpful and I felt it definitely unsettled us in the early stages, but as we adapted to the late change to the starting XI, I felt we gained an element of control and created some excellent chances (as did Chelsea to be fair), but I felt we tired and probably had settled for a shoot-out come the second period of extra-time.

It's great to win trophies and this current side deserves to add a fair few more titles to the ones they’ve already won. Granted it’s the least important of the four trophies on offer at the start of the season, but you can’t win the 'quad' without the League Cup!

I think we’ve seen the strength of the squad in the last six weeks with the game-changing substitutions against Cardiff, Norwich in the league and Inter Milan.

In my opinion, this is the strongest squad Liverpool have assembled in many a year (possibly ever) and the options available to Jurgen are plentiful. It will allow plenty of opportunities to keep the team fresh and hopefully challenging on all fronts until the end of the season.

Away from the obvious Kostas Tsimikas (who has been excellent when standing in for Robbo this season) and Harvey Elliott, I thought Curtis Jones had an excellent first half against Norwich and with the niggles our more senior midfielders unfortunately seem to pick up on a far too regular basis, he could play a big part for the remainder of the campaign, if he can build on that impressive 45 minutes and stay fit himself.

I'm really excited about him. He’s looked like a Liverpool player from minute one. His movement, work rate and touch are world class and it looks