Liverpool’s Lucas Leiva wants past put right in Capital One Cup

Three years after a fateful injury in a League Cup quarter-final at Chelsea, the Brazilian is back at the Bridge in a semi-final with Wembley on his mind

• Moment Lucas thought his career might be over

Liverpool’s last League Cup visit to Stamford Bridge cost Lucas Leiva nine months of his career, the chance to play in two cup finals and to appear at Wembley three times under Kenny Dalglish. It will not be vengeance that fuels the Brazilian’s return in the Capital One Cup semi-final on Tuesday, however, but a promise made to him by Steven Gerrard almost three years ago.

On Sunday 26 February 2012, while Liverpool are en route to Wembley for the Carling Cup final against Cardiff City, a contest Dalglish’s team will eventually win on penalties, a message arrives on Lucas’s mobile. The midfielder has no part to play in the final, having ruptured a cruciate ligament in the 2-0 quarter‑final win at Chelsea three months previously, and is downbeat.

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