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Commentary

4¹ VAN DIJK's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Watford crossbar. 15¹ TAYLOR booked. 18¹ An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of ALISSON by GIROUD. 20¹ GOAL!! A great drive from TROOST-EKONG was punched clear by the Liverpool 'keeper only as far as NIANZOU who hit the ball past the stranded Liverpool 'keeper. (1-0 Watford) 22¹ The 'keeper was able to claw away a weak header from MIKEL. 22¹ MATHIESON books DE BRUYNE. 31¹ A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Watford 'keeper. 32¹ TROOST-EKONG hoofed the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area. 32¹ DE BRUYNE waltzed round GUERREIRO and rattled a weak shot over. 35¹ GOAL!! With his back to goal MESSI wrong-footed the defence and stroked the ball past the 'keeper. (1-1) 42¹ GRAVENBERCH fluffed an easy chance. 43¹ GOAL!! The Watford 'keeper got into trouble with a backpass from NIANZOU and DE LIGT managed to scramble the ball into the back of the net. (2-1 Liverpool) 9² The Watford 'keeper blocked a neatly crafted shot from KIMMICH. 15² A poor strike from SUCIC bounced agonisingly wide. 25² A penalty box meleé resulted in ROBERTSON driving the ball wide. 25² GOAL!! A great twenty yard shot from SUCIC shook the upright and in the ensuing scramble the ball was nodded into the net by TAYLOR. (2-2) 35² A corner found RÚBEN DIAS who flicked an effort wide. 38² RICHARDSON stroked an easy chance past the righthand post. 4ª¹ TAYLOR drove a looping shot wide from twenty-five yards out. 6ª¹ TAYLOR worked the ball to MOUKOKO, SARR latched onto his pass and booted the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper. 8ª² DE BRUYNE beat SUCIC and blasted the ball to MESSI who toe-poked his shot wide. 15ª² GOAL!! A shot from SARR dribbled through a crowd of players and rolled past the unsighted Liverpool 'keeper. (3-2 Watford)

Watford   League position: 11 Home league form: WXLX Overall league form: LWWXWLWX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Péter GULÁCSI 6  1 6  ALISSON Ramses Giovanni DI LORENZO 5½ 2 7½ Joshua KIMMICH Raphaël GUERREIRO 6½ 3 7  Andy ROBERTSON Ryan GRAVENBERCH 7½ 4 7½ Kevin DE BRUYNE(c) Tanguy NIANZOU 6½ 5 7  RÚBEN Santos DIAS William TROOST-EKONG 6½ 6 6  Virgil VAN DIJK Luka SUCIC 7  7 8  Mohamed SALAH MIKEL Oyarzabal 7½ 8 7  SON Heung-min (c,p)Olivier GIROUD 7½ 9 6  Lewis RICHARDSON(p) (f)Kenneth TAYLOR 6½ 10 7  Matthijs DE LIGT(f) Ismaïla SARR 6½ 11 6½ Lionel MESSI Manager Sergiño DEST    12    Carlos CASEMIRO Maarten VANDEVOORDT    13    Jan OBLAK Youssoufa MOUKOKO 7  14 6  PAU Francisco TORRES Maurits KJÆRGAARD    15    Marcus RASHFORD Hassane KAMARA    16    KOKE

Liverpool   League position: 1 Away league form: WWWW Overall league form: WWWWLWWW Formation: 4-3-3

Watford go through to the next round , after extra time

Statistics

Watford 3 Liverpool 2 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 20,757, Stadium: Vicarage Road, Referee: Scott Mathieson 7½, TV: live) Nianzou 20¹, Taylor 25², Sarr 15ª² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Messi 35¹, de Ligt 43¹ di LorenzoóMoukoko 19² de LigtóPau Torres 22²     Taylor 15¹ de Bruyne 22¹ 5 4 14 22 3 11 8 9 8 7 16 16 4 7 49% 51% ¶ Man of the match: Mohamed Salah ¶