Harvey Elliott ensures Liverpool passage to FA Cup fourth round

Harvey Elliott fired Liverpool into the FA Cup fourth round as the holders held on for a 1-0 win at Wolves. The 19-year-old's fourth goal of the season squeezed Jurgen Klopp's men past their hosts.

The lights went out at Molineux inside the opening minute but Liverpool stoked the embers of a fading season to keep their FA Cup defence alive.

Their reward is a return trip to Brighton, which will come just two weeks after Saturday's 3-0 Premier League thumping.

It is hard to think they will be as wretched again, Klopp labelling it the worse performance of his career, but their domestic campaign will be all but over with another Amex defeat.

They had been given a reprieve after the first game with Wolves ended 2-2 - Mo Salah controversially scoring before the visitors were left furious when Toti Gomes' strike was dubiously ruled out amid a VAR failure.

Liverpool did not waste their second chance and, for all Wolves' efforts after dominating the second half, the hosts never seriously troubled Ireland goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher.

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With Nathan Collins and Ireland Under-21 midfielder Joe Hodge in the starting line-up, they also started brightly, having announced the signing of Pablo Sarabia from Paris Saint-Germain before kick-off, and immediately attacked before the stadium was briefly plunged into darkness by a power cut.

The hosts would have wished for a longer delay as the lights swiftly returned to allow Liverpool to grab a 13th-minute winner.

It came from a promising Wolves attack as Rayan Ait-Nouri's shot was blocked but, when the ball was returned to Kelleher, Liverpool ruthlessly cut through the home side.

Fabio Carvalho and Kostas Tsimikas played their way out of trouble, with Thiago Alcantara sweeping wide to