FA cup 3rd round. Wolves vs. Liverpool.

[Chris]

Ki was ridiculous, can’t be said enough how impressive that was for a 16 year old thrown in as a sub early to a mish mash team and defence.

[frank the tank]

Starting with the only positive. We have a genuine, bona-fide, wonderkid in Hoever. To step into a game like this at Centre Half, alongside a makeshift centre-half in Fabinho instead of a leader like Carra or VVD, and to play like that. Incredible.

Of the others, Curtis Jones isn't ready yet, and neither is Camacho. Both did some good stuff and some bad, but that's what you expect from players their age. Can't be too harsh on them.

Fabinho is starting to look class. Not phased being played out of position, and had a decent game. Shaq and Milner needed to do more to control the midfield, but it was tough, especially as Milner was clearly trying to protect our inexperienced centre-halves for most of the game.

Keita is the most worrying. He should be storming the midfield on a night like this, but he played like one of the young lads. Flashes of skill, but nowhere near enough in terms of fight and positioning.

Mignolet is a sound back-up, but not much more. He's a vast improvement on some of our previous cup keepers (Bogdan, Jones, Arphexad) but is hardly pushing for a starting point. I'm happy for him to stay though if he's happy with his role.

Origi is the new Djibril Cisse. Moments of brilliance surrounded by too much dross and too little understanding of how to move around the pitch to create space and chances for himself and others. Great hit on him though. I actually wouldn't mind him staying though as long as he isn't blocking the progress of others.

Sturridge and Moreno just need to go. Preferably before the end of the month.

This being a blessing in disguise only applies if we go on and win one of the other two comps, and they are the toughest two to win. Not sure it's such a great idea to bin this one off every year really. If you're lucky with the draw you can get away with playing the kids until the semi in the league cup, but that never really applies to the FA Cup.

[Fredo]

The league fixtures are cancelled for the first three rounds though, so you only start playing two games a week if you get to the quarters. It's the league cup being played midweek throughout that causes most fixture congestion.

Bin them both.

[calvoboy]

Win them both.

Fixed...

"Liverpool Football Club exists to win trophies" as someone much better than me once said.

[danperkins]

Shrewsbury would have awaited us

[Fredo]

Fixed...

Sure.

Maybe we can prioritise them above the pl and the cl.

[calvoboy]

Sure.

Maybe we can prioritise them above the pl and the cl.

Only an idiot would do that.

[Venton]

Only an idiot would do that.

[cream]

Normally after a defeat i can't sleep & spend the next couple of hours going over everything i have just watched; tonight i will sleep like a baby.

Feels like a win, oddly enough.

[baitman]

Ah well, **** happens, just win the big one!

Gonna be thread bumps galore tonight!

Go ed lad, make a list...

[Mark79]

Shrewsbury would have awaited us

Stoke more likely.

[Shaggy]

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[frank the tank]

For me, tonight just showed me that we need to push on and get rid of the remaining Brendan Rodgers signings......with the exceptions of Firmino and Milner (although I wouldn't be surprised to see him go home to Leeds United in the summer)

[Leyton388]

Disappointing to get knocked out as a cup run would have been nice but we have more important things to concentrate on this season.

[Gibbo]

Klopp said Henderson and Lallana were both part of the plan tonight.

Does that mean Hendo is injured?