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By Sean Walsh FROM WEMBLEY STADIUM – Had Chelsea just lost to a run-of-the-mill Liverpool team inside the 90 regulation minutes, then maybe their Carabao Cup final defeat would have been more palatable. A Reds team with only a few injury concerns as opposed to their current crisis would have been able to dispatch of the Blues with a relative amount of ease, one would think. A standard 2-0 or something like that. But that lengthy list of absentees opened the door to a competitive cup final. Chelsea weren’t the underdogs, and for a little while they were even the favourites. A first-half injury …

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