It would be wrong to suggest a club with Liverpool’s proud history will be completely unmoved by a third-round elimination from a competition they have won seven times. They do, however, clearly have other priorities and it was certainly difficult to remember the last time a team from Anfield has seemed as indifferent, blasé even, about the FA Cup as Jürgen Klopp’s team did during this defeat.
The best time to judge whether Klopp was right to take such a risk will come at the end of the season, when we know whether the current Premier League leaders have held their position at the top of the table. For now, however, all that really can be said is they were obliging opponents for a Wolves side that fully took advantage of Klopp’s team selection and won a rather dishevelled tie with a firecracker of a shot from Rúben Neves.
Written by Daniel Taylor at Molineux
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jan/07/wolves-liverpool-fa-cup-third-round-match-report under the title “Rúben Neves makes the difference for Wolves in FA Cup against Liverpool”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
