There was a lot of drama on England football fields tonight, as the third round of the FA Cup provided lots of action, as always, and it can be said that the last game on the menu tonight had a moment of the magic of its own. After all, we did see four goals, three major chances, a surreal blunder from a Liverpool goalkeeper, a striker’s goal after almost a year, and a team with 9 reserves who came to Enfield and earned an FA Cup replay: Liverpool – Wolves 2-2. This will be another game in which Reds didn’t win and another opportunity for coach Jurgen Klopp to moan, but this time he can moan only about his players and nothing else.Most goals scored for Liverpool in the club’s 130-year history:◎ 346 – Ian Rush◎ 285 – Roger Hunt◎ 241 – Gordon Hodgson◎ 228 – Billy Liddell◎ 186 – Steven Gerrard◎ 183 – Robbie Fowler◉ 173 – Mohamed Salah◎ 172 – Kenny DalglishMo keeps climbing. 🪜 pic.twitter.com/EueUqepwGW— Squawka (@Squawka) January 7, 2023 Liverpool nearly got beat by a team which is fighting for survival and still played with 9 reserves, while the home team had a perfect trio in the attack: new boy Gakpo (making a debut), Darwin Nunez (yes he scored!) and Mohamed Salah. But the key moment happened in the 26th minute when Allison got the ball back to his feet after a Wolves attack and wanted to pass it to Alexander-Arnold. He somehow failed to see Guedes who was right in front of him and he passed it to the Wolves striker, who tapped it in with ease for the lead.Apart from Allison’s moment of madness, the first half was a rather good one. Julen Lopetegui’s men were putting a quite decent performance, even thou the Spaniard made no less than nine changes. Lopetegui had to calculate with his strongest squad, considering that Premier League survival is his primary task, not the FA Cup. But after solid chances from Salah and new boy Gakpo in the opening 5 minutes, his reserve squad played quite nicely. They stopped the Reds, used the moment of madness from Allison to take the lead, and even had a great chance through Jimenes to make it 2-0, but it was Darwin Nunez (finally), who used a perfect cross from Alexander-Arnold and scored from the first touch in the 45th minute: 1-1.It was all Reds in the second half, and the second goal came out of nowhere, just as the equalizer. Gakpo took a shot in the direction of Salah who was offside, but Toti rather clumsy passed it back with his head to the Egyptian who scored. Wolves had a great chance to equalize just minutes later, but Ait-Nouri, who was alone in front of Alisson took a poor shot. But Hwang came in as a sub and equalized in the 67th minute, scoring a strange goal after 30 games and almost one year of fasting. And Enfield got pretty much silenced when Toti scored the winning goal in the 82nd minute. But VAR overruled it for offside, and it was that kind of offside for which Jurgen Klopp would be moaning all day if it was the other way around. All in all, the reply is on the way, at the Molienaux in 10 days.FA CUP Third round FridayManchester United – Everton 3-1 (1-1)/Antony 4, Coady 52 og, Rashford 90+7 pen – Coady 14/SaturdayCrystal Palace – Southampton 1-2 (1-1)/Edouard 14 – Ward-Prowse 37, Armstrong 68/Gillingham – Leicester 0-1 (0-0)/Iheanacho 56/Preston – Huddersfield 3-1 (0-0)/Lees 60 og, Diaby 73, Browne 85 – Kamberi 57/Reading – Watford 2-0 (1-0)/Abrefa 45+3, Long 90+3/Tottenham – Portsmouth 1-0 (0-0)/Kane 50/Blackpool – Nottingham Forest 4-1 (1-0)/Ekpiteta 17, Poveda 64, Hamilton 71, J Yates 87 – R Yates 90+2/Boreham Wood – Accrington 1-1 (0-1)/Ndlovu 78 – Astley 6/Bournemouth – Burnley 2-4 (1-3)/Christie 12, Solanke 48 – Benson 6, 57, Zaroury 39, 43/Chesterfield – West Brom 3-3 (3-2)/Williams 7, Dobra 36, 41 – Thomas-Asante 2, Grant 17, Asante 90+4/Fleetwood – QPR 2-1 (1-1)/Nsiala 40, Omochere 67 – Field 37/Hull – Fulham 0-2 (0-1)/Kurzawa 37, James 90+4/Ipswich – Rotherham 4-1 (1-0)/Humphreys 43, Chaplin 74 pen, Ladapo 79, Burns 87 pen – Washington 47 pen/Middlesbrough – Brighton 1-5 (1-2)/Akpom 13 – Gross 8, Lallana 29, Mac Allister 58, 80, Undav 88/Millwall – Sheffield United 0-2 (0-2)/Jebbison 23, Bogle 36/Shrewsbury – Sunderland 1-2 (0-0)/Pennington 80 – Stewart 90+1, O’Nien 90+4/Brentford – West Ham 0-1 (0-0)/Benrahma 79/Coventry – Wrexham 3-4 (1-3)/Shaef 36, Gyokeres 69, Palmer 76 – Dalby 12, Lee 18, O’Connor 45+6, Mullin 58 pen/Grimsby – Burton 1-0 (0-0)/Richardson 76/Luton – Wigan 1-1 (1-1)/Cornick 45+1 – Naylor 17/Sheffield Wednesday – Newcastle United 2-1 (0-0)/Windass 52, 65 – Guimaraes 69/Liverpool – Wolverhampton 2-2 (1-1)/Nunez 45, Salah 52 – Guedes 26, Hwang 67/Sunday15:30 Bristol City – Swansea City15:30 Derby County – Barnsley17:00 Cardiff City – Leeds United17:00 Hartlepool United – Stoke City17:00 Norwich City – Blackburn Rovers17:00 Stockport County – Walsall19:30 Aston Villa – Stevenage19:30 Manchester City – ChelseaMonday23:00 Oxford United – Arsenal***odds are subject to change***
