When the penalties were done,a fifth trophy had been added to Manchester City’s collection from the Abu Dhabi era, Yaya Tour was twirling his shirt on his personal victory dash and a swarm of photographers was heading for Willy Caballero. Caballero’s selection had been risky after his erratic performances as Joe Hart’s understudy but it was his goalkeeping that meant the first silverware of the season would be heading to Manchester and those were the moments when we saw why Manuel Pellegrini had placed his trust in him.
Caballero could not retain out Emre Can’s impudent (casually rude, insolent) runt pitch-wedge to get the penalties underway but thereafter he was unbeatable, and diving to his left to turn away a decent attempt by Lucas Leiva,a hesitant one from Philippe Coutinho, and then the other way to beat out Adam Lallana’s effort for his third successive save. Fernandinho had struck the post with City’s first penalty but Jess Navas and Sergio Agüero were both on target and when Touré buried the next attempt it decided the game without having to depart to Wilfried Bony and James Milner for the final round.
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Source: theguardian.com