Holders Liverpool had been knocked out of the FA Cup after shedding 2-1 at Brighton & Hove Albion within the fourth spherical on Sunday as Kaoru Mitoma struck a late winner, earlier than fifth-tier Wrexham had been held to an exhilarating 3-3 draw by 10-man Sheffield United. In Brighton, Harvey Elliott put Liverpool forward, Lewis Dunk equalised earlier than halftime and the rating stayed at 1-1 till Mitoma discovered the web within the 92nd minute with a positive end.
It was the second time that Brighton had defeated Liverpool in two weeks, after they beat Juergen Klopp’s facet 3-0 within the Premier League.
“Unbelievable ending. Typically you have to win a sport like that. We weren’t at our greatest in the present day. Nowhere close to it. However we floor it out in opposition to a high facet and bought the win,” captain Dunk informed ITV Sport.
“We really feel like we will beat anybody on our greatest days and we confirmed right here we will beat them on our not-so-good days. We have the whole lot in our squad to maintain pushing on and hopefully we will go additional within the competitors.”
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Liverpool’s teenage midfielder Elliott had put them forward within the thirtieth minute with a low shot into the far nook following a intelligent cross from Mohamed Salah.
Brighton equalised 9 minutes later when Dunk bought a flick on a long-range effort from Tariq Lamptey which deflected into the objective, with goalkeeper Alisson Becker wrong-footed.
Elliott, who additionally scored in Liverpool’s win within the third- spherical replay, may have made it 2-1 earlier than halftime as he latched on to Cody Gakpo’s cross however Lamptey made an excellent last-ditch sort out.
ANOTHER CHANCE
Liverpool had one other likelihood on the hour mark when Salah related with an exquisite cross from James Milner however the Egypt ahead selected to whip in a cross as a substitute of taking a shot and Brighton keeper Jason Steele simply blocked it.
The tie seemed set to go to a replay when Brighton’s Solly March missed a golden alternative to attain within the 71st minute, failing to beat the onrushing Alisson from shut vary after Mitoma had set him up with an excellent low cross.
However Mitoma took issues into his personal palms, scoring an excellent objective following a free kick as he managed the ball on the half volley, dummied and rifled it dwelling.
It was one other disappointing end result for Liverpool who’ve struggled with type and accidents this season and are ninth within the Premier League standings.
“This season has been nowhere close to ok. At the beginning of the yr, we wished a contemporary begin however that hasn’t occurred. We have been worse,” Liverpool defender Andy Robertson mentioned.
“Within the league, we have not been ok and now we’re out of each cups,” he added.
Championship (second-tier) facet Stoke Metropolis progressed to the fifth spherical after beating fourth-tier Stevenage 3-1 as Jacob Brown scored an early objective adopted by a shocking strike from Josh Laurent and a penalty by Lewis Baker.
Wrexham, owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, had been on the verge of recording an upset win over Championship membership Sheffield United earlier than John Egan scored from a nook within the ninety fifth minute to pressure a replay.
In a frantic second half on the Racecourse Floor, Wrexham twice took the lead by way of Thomas O’Connor and Paul Mullin on both facet of a sending-off for Daniel Jebbison, however the Welsh membership had been pegged again by objectives from Oliver Norwood and Egan.
“Very upset. To concede from one of many final kicks of the sport from a set play is gutting,” Wrexham striker Mullin informed the BBC. “If we simply maintain on in opposition to 10 males then we’re by way of.
“I assumed we had been the higher workforce all through the sport, creating probabilities and searching harmful on the break. We restricted them to not many probabilities in open play.”
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