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0¹ ALISSON was able to claw away a weak shot from ADAMS. 5¹ The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from TUTA fell just over. 7¹ McNEIL galloped through the Liverpool defence but shot straight at the 'keeper. 9¹ The 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce shot from BUSQUETS. 10¹ RAUM headed wide. 18¹ An exceptional effort from HLOZEK scraped the outside of the righthand post. 26¹ GOAL!! With his back to goal ALEXANDER-ARNOLD wrong-footed the defence and stroked the ball past the 'keeper. (1-0 Liverpool) 32¹ WIRTZ's shot beat the Middlesbrough 'keeper but rebounded off the Middlesbrough post. 37¹ HLOZEK beat two Liverpool players and fired a golden opportunity over. 8² GOAL!! A quick-witted McNEIL pounced on a loose ball on the left and made no mistake. (1-1) 9² TRUBIN dived to his right to stop an accurate drive from Liverpool's SALAH. 14² TRAORÉ chipped the ball to ADAMS who touched it over the bar. 15² GOAL!! A cross from MIKEL MERINO was headed away by EMERSON PALMIERI only for IMMOBILE to crack the ball back into the box for MARCOS LLORENTE to force into the net. (2-1 Liverpool) 20² IMMOBILE shot wide. 23² McNEIL scuffed a simple chance. 24² A penalty box meleé resulted in TRAORÉ cracking the ball wide. 30² A drive from MIKEL MERINO seemed a certain goal but the Middlesbrough 'keeper managed to punch the ball clear. 34² A pin-point pass was collected by ROBERTSON and his right foot effort floated narrowly wide. 39² A header by McNEIL at the near post was easily collected by ALISSON. 40² A deadly shot from McNEIL was stopped by the 'keeper. 42² McNEIL stabbed an easy chance past the far post. 44² HLOZEK made space on the left and dragged the ball to TRAORÉ who fired the ball over.

Middlesbrough   League position: 11 Home league form: XWWX Overall league form: XLWXWXWW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Anatoliy TRUBIN 6  1 6½ ALISSON Ramses(c) Axel TUANZEBE 7  2 7  Trent ALEXANDER-ARNOLD EMERSON PALMIERI dos Santos 7  3 7  Andy ROBERTSON Manuel UGARTE 7½ 4 7½ José GIMÉNEZ TUTA 6½ 5 7½ David RAUM Naby SARR 6½ 6 7  Virgil VAN DIJK Bertrand TRAORÉ 6½ 7 6  Florian WIRTZ Dwight McNEIL 8  8 7  MIKEL MERINO Zazon (p)Ché ADAMS 6½ 9 6  Ciro IMMOBILE (c,f)Sergio BUSQUETS 6½ 10 6½ MARCOS LLORENTE Moreno Adam HLOZEK 5½ 11 7½ Mohamed SALAH(p,f) Manager Rikki Faulkner JOÃO Filipe MOUTINHO    12    Marvin AKAHOMEN Paulo GAZZANIGA    13    Enes SALI Kouadio KONÉ    14    FÁBIO Daniel SILVA Maximilian BEIER    15    Noah DARVICH Orri ÓSKARSSON    16    Luka SUCIC

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

Liverpool go through to the next round

Statistics

Middlesbrough 1 Liverpool 2 (Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 34,641, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Eddie Ilderton 6) McNeil 8² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Alexander-Arnold 26¹, Marcos Llorente 15²             6 4 2 15 4 15 6 5 9 7 15 12 4 3 51% 49% ¶ Man of the match: Dwight McNeil ¶