Balotelli 'finally' comes good as Liverpool scrape past Swansea

Italian striker comes off the bench to score equaliser and help Reds into League Cup quarter finals

Mario Balotelli passes the ball in the League Cup Fourth Round football match between Liverpool and Swansea City
(Image credit: OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty)

Liverpool 2 Swansea 1.Mario Balotelli came good for Liverpool on Tuesday night when he scored the vital equaliser in their fourth round Capital Cup tie against Swansea. Balotelli's strike, four minutes from full-time, cancelled out Marvin Emnes' effort for the visitors and Swansea then suffered the heartbreak of seeing Dejan Lovren score a stoppage time winner for the Reds to send them through to the last eight.

It was Balotelli's second goal (and his first since 16 September) since arriving in the summer in a £16m deal from AC Milan and the Italian striker was clearly relieved to have got on the scoresheet again. His Twitter account has the handle @finallymario and "Finally" was the one word message to his fans a couple of hours after the victory.

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Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.