Kepa: Viral footage of Chelsea man's penalty miss in Carabao Cup defeat to Liverpool

Chelsea’s Kepa Arrizabalaga was the man who missed the deciding penalty in the Carabao Cup final against Liverpool on Sunday evening.

Having been brought on to replace Edouard Mendy in extra time due to his expertise in shootouts, Kepa was forced to step up and take a penalty of his own after every single Liverpool player had scored.

The 27-year-old had made the difference off the bench during the UEFA Super Cup shootout against Villarreal, but couldn’t do enough to stop 11 consecutive spot-kicks from flying past him.

As such, Kepa found himself in unfamiliar territory by placing the ball on the spot just a few seconds after his opposite number, Caoimhin Kelleher, had held his nerve to complete the set for Liverpool.

However, the world’s most expensive goalkeeper proved not to be as efficient in shootouts with his feet as he has so often been with his hands, lumping a poor effort miles over the crossbar.

There was a surreal few seconds where the ball sailed into the Liverpool fans behind the goal where time seemed to stand still and the gravity of what had just happened dawn on the Chelsea ‘keeper.

It’s never nice to see anybody missing in a crucial shootout that decides the course of a major final, but it’s especially gut-wrenching when it’s a player who ordinarily would never be expected to take a penalty.

Nevertheless, there can be no escaping the fact that Kepa’s penalty was a truly terrible one with the sheer height of his shot prompting some fans to cruelly compare it to a rugby conversion on Twitter.

Marry that to the standard jokes that Kepa’s shot will have landed on the moon or in someone’s back garden, and it won’t be surprising to learn that there was plenty of interest in where his miss ended up.

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