- Liverpool already have the League Cup – Liverpool took it in February, hitting the biggest zeros of the season with Chelsea and then winning a cinematic shoot-out closed by Quivin Kelleher, Liverpool’s second goalkeeper to score the decisive penalty. Although many urged Klopp to release Alisson for an important match.
“Even in professional football there has to be a place for sentimentality. Kelleher is a young guy, he played throughout the tournament, what was I supposed to do? I am a professional trainer, but at the same time I am a person. The man in me won. He deserved it. There is a wall at the base with all the goalkeepers who have won something. And now Quivin will be on it. This is how it should be, it’s great, ”Klopp smiled after the first trophy. At that moment, there could be no talk of a quadruple – the gap from City in the Premier League seemed too big, and in the FA Cup under Klopp they usually did not go far. So it was before.
- In the FA Cup, Liverpool are one leg away from victory – after a 3-2 win over City, Chelsea or Crystal Palace are left in the semi-finals. Shrewsbury (League 1), Cardiff (Championship), Norwich, Nottingham Forest (Championship), Manchester City – this is the path of Jurgen Klopp’s team to the FA Cup final.
Who else took a quadruple?
- The most beautiful quadruple belongs to Celtic, in 1967 the Scots took the Scottish Championship, two domestic Cups and the Champions Cup (that was the name of the current Champions League until the 90s, if that suddenly confused you).
- No one has won four trophies in one season in England. The closest was Manchester United in the 1998/99 season, then Sir Alex Ferguson’s team took everything except the League Cup – they flew out to the 1/4 finals. Man City won all home trophies in 2019 (FA Cup, League Cup and Premier League), but in the Champions League they were eliminated at the same stage – 1/4.
- Other countries have had teams that have won four trophies in one season – but there is the question of what counts as a “real” quadruple, because only England and until recently France had two domestic cups. In other countries, there is usually only one Cup (there are exceptions outside the top 5 – for example, Portugal).
PSG three times (seasons 2014/15, 2015/16, 2017/18) took four trophies: the French Super Cup, the French Cup, the League Cup and Ligue 1. Without the Champions League, it never submitted to the Parisians. Bayern took four trophies twice – in the 2019/20 season (Bundesliga, German Cup, Champions League, Club World Cup) and in the 2012/13 season (instead of the KChM – the German Super Cup). Real Madrid played the quadruple twice: in the 2016/17 season (European Super Cup, Club World Cup, La Liga and Champions League), in the 2017/18 season there was no championship, but the Spanish Super Cup was added. Barcelona did this once – in 2016: the Super Cup, the Club World Cup, La Liga, the Spanish Cup. But without the Champions League – a very important point.