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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes Sunday's Carabao Cup final victory over Chelsea was the most special trophy triumph of his entire career. The Reds boss, who has two Bundesliga titles to his name and previously led Liverpool to Premier League and Champions League glory, had to battle a significant number of injuries to his senior players at Wembley and ended the game with several inexperienced academy talents on the field. Jarell Quansah, Bobby Clark, James McConnell and Jayden Danns boast a combined 17 Premier League appearances between them but all helped make the difference on Sunday, and Klopp believes that made this win the best of his career. "What we see today is so exceptional," he said after the Game . "We might never see it again, these things don't happen in Football . Apparently, you don't win trophies with kids, I didn't know that. "It is easily the most special trophy I've ever won. It's absolutely exceptional. I wish I...

Lionel Messi has chosen his solo effort in a UEFA Champions League semi final win over Real Madrid in 2011 as his favourite goal of his career. The forward recently won his record-extending eighth Ballon d'Or, which he earned thanks to his inspirational performances for Argentina on their way to a World Cup triumph in Qatar, cementing his legacy as the greatest footballer of all time. Having scored an astonishing 821 times for both club and country at senior level, including some of the very best of the modern era, Messi had plenty of goals to choose from when asked what his favourite of his career was after winning his latest Ballon d'Or. The Diego Maradona-esque one against Getafe, the powerful run against Real Zaragoza, or his stunning header in the 2009 Champions League final, are a few he could have chosen as his favourite, however Messi instead opted for his goal against arch rivals Real Madrid. "Well, I always say that special goals are the important thing," ...

The Lakers rallied from a 25-point halftime deficit to beat the Blazers on Sunday, marking the NBA's biggest second-half comeback this season and matched the largest second-half comeback of LeBron James' regular-season career.  James was no small part of the rally. He had 17 of his 37 points in the third quarter, by the end of which the Lakers had trimmed that 25-point deficit to just five.  With the 37 points, James moves even closer to becoming the NBA's all-time leading scorer, a distinction currently held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. You can see below where James' pursuit of Jabbar's mark stands.  ALL-TIME SCORING LEADER CAREER POINTS POINTS TO PASS Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 38,387 ___ LeBron James 38,164 224 For the season, James is averaging 29.7 points per Game . If he maintains that pace, he will need just eight more Game s to pass Abdul-Jabbar. If James doesn't sit out any Game s between now...

MILWAUKEE -- Up behind one of the baskets at Fiserv Forum, nestled into the very top of the lower bowl, sits the Jockey Crew, the Milwaukee Bucks' superfan section. One of their favorite chants, "Can't stop Giannis!" has rung around the arena countless times over the years, but rarely has it been as apt as it was on Tuesday night.  The two-time MVP continued his hunt for a third such award with another stunning performance in the Bucks' 123-113 win over the Washington Wizards: a career- high 55 points on 20-of-33 from the field and 15-of-16 from the free-throw line, 10 rebounds and seven assists.  "Hard to come up with all the words to describe him," Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. "Incredibly special tonight."  Brook Lopez had the same struggle as his coach. "I'm gonna have to use foreign languages," Lopez said. "I don't really know any Greek, ...