10-Goal Bonanza

Liverpool-Arsenal clash lives up to its billing as Reds clinch Carabao thriller

When the dust has settled on it all, the compensations for the travelling side who contributed so much to this extraordinary night will include a form of deliverance it provided for the maligned, ostracised Mesut Ozil. He has been given just two starts all season, lasted barely more than an hour on each occasion, and yet was the author of almost everything that Arsenal accomplished here.

There were the contributions, too, of a couple of young Londoners: 22-year Ashley Maitland-Niles — inventive and dangerous — and Joe Willock, whose goal – the game’s ninth – will live long in the memory and seemed to have seen Arsenal home.