FA Cup stunner: Liverpool is knocked out by second-tier Plymouth in fourth round | Football News
Premier League leader Liverpool was knocked out of the FA Cup by second-tier struggler Plymouth after losing 1-0 in a stunning fourth-round upset on Sunday. It ended any hopes of a quadruple of major trophies for Liverpool, which leads the Premier League by six points with a game in hand, finished top of the revamped first stage of the Champions League and has reached the English League Cup final. Ryan Hardie’s 53rd-minute penalty proved to be the winner for Plymouth, a club from the southwest of England which is in last place in the second-tier Championship and recently fired Wayne Rooney as its manager. THEY’VE DONE IT!!!@Argyle HAVE DEFIED THE ODDS. THEY’VE BEATEN @LFC 🤯#EmiratesFACup pic.twitter.com/aK6JGKO5lW — Emirates FA Cup (@EmiratesFACup) February 9, 2025 Liverpool fielded a heavily rotated lineup, without stars like Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk who weren’t even on the bench, but still had established internationals like Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota on the field in a frenetic ending to the game as Plymouth was forced to …

