LIVERPOOL’S QUADRUPLE DREAM AT STAKE IN FA CUP FINAL AGAINST CHELSEA

Liverpool will bid to keep their quadruple chase alive in tonight’s FA Cup final against a Chelsea side hoping to welcome incoming owner Todd Boehly with victory at Wembley.

Jurgen Klopp’s men have four matches left in their historic attempt to become the first English team to win all four major trophies in one season. They beat Chelsea to lift the League Cup in February and have reached the finals of the FA Cup and Champions League, where they face Real Madrid on May 28.

No English club have come this close to such a clean sweep, but Liverpool know their hopes of winning the Premier League are starting to fade. Manchester City moved three points clear of the second-placed Reds with a 5-1 win at Wolves midweek and need four points from their last two games against West Ham and Aston Villa to retain the crown.

First up for Liverpool is a rematch with Chelsea, who fought gamely in their League

Cup final in February before the Reds prevailed 11-10 in the shoot-out that followed a 0-0 draw.

Liverpool and Chelsea are the first English teams to meet in both domestic finals in the same year since Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday in 1993. But, in their 60th game this season, fatigue could be a threat to Liverpool’s hopes of a first FA Cup triumph since 2006.

In a bid to keep his stars fresh, Klopp made several changes in the midweek win at Villa, yet still lost Brazil midfielder Fabinho to an injury that rules him out of the final.

Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson called for one last push, starting at Wembley. “The more it goes on, the more important and intense the games are. We are using all the squad and I thought the boys that came in were brilliant [against Villa],” Henderson said.

Like Liverpool, Chelsea’s season will conclude with 63 games played, but it has been Thomas Tuchel’s side who have looked more drained in recent weeks.

Before the midweek 3-0 victory at Leeds consolidated their grip on third place, the

Blues had won just once in five league games as they struggled to recover from their painful Champions League quarter-final exit at Real Madrid.