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

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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.

READ ALSO: Manchester City Beat Liverpool In Carabao Cup Action, Qualify For Quarterfinals

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.

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.

In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.

He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.

Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.

He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.

Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.

Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.

In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.

He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.

Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.

He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.

Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.

Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.


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