Wednesday 30th October 2024, Kick-off 19.45
Carabao Cup Fourth Round
American Express Community Stadium, Falmer
Admission: £25.00
Programme: £4.00
Attendance: 28,441
A match report from the Brighton perspective can be read by clicking here, also copied and pasted below.
Match highlights can be viewed by clicking here
Holders end spirited Albion's Cup hopes
Albion 2 Liverpool 3: Simon Adingra and Tariq Lamptey score in the last ten minutes but Liverpool progess to quarter-finals.
Holders Liverpool overcame much-changed Albion’s spirited challenge to progress into the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.
After a goalless first half Cody Gakpo broke the deadlock within a minute of the re-start and added a second in the 63rd minute. Liverpool seemed to have control at that stage but Simon Adingra pulled one back with ten minutes to go.
Luis Diaz made sure Liverpool maintained their record of winning each of the ten games when they have gone in front this season with a third although Tariq Lamptey’s heavily deflected shot ensured the visitors had to defend resolutely in the closing stages.
Albion were also left to rue the brilliance of Liverpool keeper Vitezslav Jaros, who made great saves at crucial times to deny Lamptey and Adingra.
Fabian Hurzeler’s much-changed line-up – with only three survivors from the 2-2 draw against Wolves - started confidently and should have taken a 13th minute lead. Jan Paul van Hecke’s long ball was brought under control expertly by Adingra, who spotted Lamptey bursting through the middle. So did Jaros who raced out of goal to smother the defender’s shot, but Lamptey should have scored.
Hurzeler would have been pleased with what he’d seen in the first 30 minutes. Albion had enjoyed lots of possession and in Adingra and the Lamptey/Brejan Gruda combination they were threatening down both flanks.
But Liverpool had a great chance of their own when Dominik Szoboszlai exchanged passes with Andy Robertson. The Hungarian clipped Robertson’s cut-back goalwards, but Jason Steele made an instinctive save and saw Diaz head the rebound into the side netting.
Steele made another important stop with an outstretched right foot six minutes before the break from Robertson’s low drive but the game needed a goal and it took Liverpool just 32 seconds of the second period to find it when Gakpo cut inside Jakub Moder on the left-hand corner of the box and thrashed a right-foot shot past the helpless Steele into the top corner.
Albion rallied and had their best spell of the game. They were denied an equaliser by Jaros’s brilliance in the 49th minute. Lamptey made a great run down the right and stood up a cross for Adingra whose header back across goal was fingertipped onto the post by the Liverpool keeper. Evan Ferguson shot over from close range moments later then, after more good work by Lamptey, Brejan Gruda curled an effort inches wide before Robertson cleared Jan Paul van Hecke's close-range shot.
Albion were knocking on the door but when Lamptey mis-controlled Liverpool had a three-v-one break. Steele stood tall to impressively keep out Szoboszlai’s shot but relief was short-lived. Moments later Lamptey was caught in possession by Gakpo on the left and the Dutchman strode forward unchallenged and his powerful shot inside the near post gave Steele no chance.
Albion refused to believe it was a lost cause. Adingra’s trickery created another opening but Ferguson couldn’t quite stretch at the far post to convert his cross. Hurzeler threw on Kauro Mitoma and Danny Welbeck and ten minutes from time they got one back. Jaros blocked Ferguson’s shot from just outside the box but Adingra reacted quickest to guide the ball into an empty net.
Liverpool punctured increasing Albion’s optimism five minutes from time. Steele made another fine save after Diaz’s shot took a hefty deflection off Joel Veltman but Albion didn’t clear their lines and Diaz was able to turn and fire low past Steele from eight yards.
There was another twist when Lamptey made it 3-2 with a shot that cannoned off Jarrell Quansah to leave Jaros helpless but Liverpool held firm to move into the last eight.
Brighton: Steele, Lamptey, van Hecke (Veltman 70), Igor, Kadioglu (Estupian 45), Gruda (Mitoma 75), Wieffer, Moder (Hinshelwood 70), Adingra, Enciso (Welbeck 75), Ferguson.
Unused subs: Verbruggen, Baleba, Ayari.
Liverpool: Jaros, Gomez, Endo (Nyoni, 64), Diaz, Szoboszlai (Nunez, 70), Jones, Gakpo (Salah, 70), Robertson, Quansah (Konate, 90+1), Morton (Mac Allister, 64), Bradley.
Unused subs: Kelleher, Van Dijk, Tsimikas, Young.
Referee: Darren Bond
Attendance: 28,441
Author :Bruce Talbot
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