Brighton vs Liverpool LIVE: FA Cup result and final score after Kauro Mitoma scores brilliant winning goal
Kaoru Mitoma scored a wonderful goal in added time to earn Brighton their second win over Liverpool in a matter of weeks and knock out the FA Cup holders
Brighton beat Liverpool at the Amex to knock out the FA Cup holders after Japanese winger Kaoru Mitoma scored a brilliant late winner.
Harvey Elliott had put Liverpool in front before Brighton equalised with a stroke of fortune when Tariq Lamptey’s shot was deflected home by Lewis Dunk, making it level at the break following an entertaining first half.
Both sides created chances to win it in the second period but it was Mitoma who finally delivered the quality required, taking a calm touch before flicking the ball away from a defender and steering it into the far corner past Alisson to spark bedlam at the Amex and send Brighton into the fifth-round draw.
Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
61 min: A chance for Liverpool as Salah gets on the ball on the right side of the box and flicks a cross towards Nunez, with Brighton’s defence scattered, but Steele leaps out and intervenes. A moment later Salah goes down in the box but it would have been a soft decision.
Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
59 min: Three changes by Jurgen Klopp, and that man Alexander-Arnold is done for the day, which he doesn’t look particularly happy about.
Darwin Nunez, Jordan Henderson and James Milner are on to replace goalscorer Elliott, the anonymous Keita and the chastened Alexander-Arnold.
Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
57 min: This game would not be a good case study if you were trying to prove the opinion that Alexander-Arnold is a good one-on-one defender. But in truth, he is just up against a brilliant player in Mitoma.
Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
55 min: A brilliant change of pace by Mitoma leaves Alexander-Arnold behind and brings Alisson off his line near his right byline. The winger flicks the ball back to the edge of the box, but it’s not converted by Pascal Gross who lashes over.
Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
Meanwhile, Brighton have signed a new midfielder. How much will one of the big seven be offering for this chap in a year’s time?
Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
51 min: It turns out Alexis Mac Allister was feeling a thigh knock at the time, which is why Dunk stepped up.
Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
49 min: Lewis Dunk has just tried a knuckleball free-kick and it was not terrible. It helped that Liverpool had no idea what was coming.
Second half: Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
46 min: Brighton start fast - they look up for this second half.
Half-time: Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
Roberto De Zerbi speaks from the tunnel at half-time, something ITV have been doing this season in the FA Cup. He says Brighton made too many mistakes and will need to sharpen up if they are to win the game.
Looks like a man who has absolutely no time for this TV gimmick.
Half-time: Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
Speaking on ITV at half-time, Glenn Murray says his old friend and teammate Lewis Dunk didn’t mean to score with that ‘flick’ (deflection) past Alisson Becker. Murray doesn’t believe the centre-back has those reactions in his locker, and that’s probably fair enough.
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