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While it ended up backfiring, Thomas Tuchel ’s decision to bring on Kepa Arrizabalaga specifically for Sunday’s Carabao Cup final penalty shootout remains the right decision when comparing his penalty save percentage to Edouard Mendy’s.

Kepa was brought on with less than a minute remaining of extra-time, despite Mendy producing a man-of-the-match performance to hold out Liverpool across 120 minutes.

But rather than be Chelsea ’s hero of the hour, the Spanish keeper was the villain, failing to save any of Liverpool’s 11 penalties before putting his spot-kick high over the bar to hand the Reds the trophy.

It marked a sour end to what had been an impressive Carabao Cup campaign for Kepa, who had started all of the Blues’ previous five games in the competition.

Though the decision to bring him on for Mendy now looks to have been ill-advised, Tuchel was actually putting Chelsea in the best position possible to win the shootout.

Kepa had won six of the eight shootouts he had taken part in before Sunday’s showpiece event, with all of those