FA Cup: Liverpool Held By Premier League Rivals Wolves, Teams Set For Replay

Liverpool on Saturday night was held to a 2-2 draw by Wolverhapton Wanderers in their FA Cup 3rd round tie at Anfield thereby forcing a replay.

Wolves would feel a sense of injustice as they thought they had won a late winner to book their place in the 4th round but they were denied a late winner by the VAR.

Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez proved his mettle with a brilliant cushioned volley from a sumptuous Trent Alexander-Arnold cross before Mohamed Salah went past Kenny Dalglish in the club’s all-time list with his 173rd goal in a red shirt.

Defensively Liverpool, beaten on Monday after a lethargic display against Brentford, were disorganised and after Alisson Becker’s gaffe had gifted Portuguese star forward, Goncalo Guedes, the first goal while second-half substitute Hwang Hee-Chan secured a replay four minutes after coming on.

Wolves defender Toti was denied a winner nine minutes from time by an offside flag, which was confirmed by a confusing VAR decision, and while the visitors returned home boosted ahead of a big week, Jurgen Klopp was left to ponder the mysteries of yet another sub-standard performance.

Even a promising debut from £ 38 million signing Cody Gakpo who arrived from PSV Eindhoven could not hide the failings of a performance which lurched from the bad to the brilliant and back to poor again.

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Jurgen Klopp fielded his strongest available side against a Wolves team, who have a Carabao Cup quarter-final on Wednesday followed by a relegation six-pointer against West Ham, registering nine changes with 19-year-old right-back Dexter Lembikisa making his first start.

Yet after seeing off a deliberately controlled start from their hosts – Salah sending a free-kick over and Gakpo having an early shot – Julen Lopetegui’s side looked the better team with Adama Traore’s pacey bursts forward causing problems.

The wolves were denied a late winner by the VAR which would cause widespread retrospective views on the goal technology.