Liverpool

Liverpool's FA Cup defence ended on Sunday as Brighton & Hove Albion scored a stoppage-time winner in a thrilling 2-1 victory at the Amex Stadium.

[Marc Cucurella](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/259910/Marc-Cucurella) to [Chelsea](/soccer/team?id=363) and [Yves Bissouma](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/232810/Yves-Bissouma) to Tottenham last summer. [Tariq Lamptey](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/276039/Tariq-Lamptey) flew forward with skill from right back; 2022 World Cup winner [Alexis Mac Allister](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/249299/Alexis-Mac-Allister) looked assured in the middle of the park next to [Pascal Gross](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/132659/pascal-gro%C3%9F); and forward [Kaoru Mitoma](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/274278/Kaoru-Mitoma) remained a danger throughout. To progress and become a great team you have to win this game, you can think it is nice to win the game, but it is not like this. Liverpool: Klopp will take on Wolves for the third time in less than a month when Liverpool visit Molineux on Saturday, then on Feb. Brighton winger [Kaoru Mitoma](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/274278/Kaoru-Mitoma) hit a late winner, taking down a cross from [Pervis Estupinan](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/214689/Pervis-Estupiñán) before firing home and sparking wild celebrations. [Premier League](/soccer/league/_/name/eng.1) earlier this month -- and a push to qualify for European football, the Seagulls again found themselves warding off bids for one of their best players. Their final hope at glory now lies in the [Champions League](/soccer/league/_/name/uefa.champions), but they face a daunting task in familiar foes [Real Madrid](/soccer/team?id=86) in the round of 16. He saw a chance blocked off the line in the opening five minutes, then ran through one-on-one but dragged his shot wide of the right post. Then head coach Graham Potter was poached by Chelsea in September and [Leandro Trossard](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/174980/Leandro-Trossard), also with grander ambitions, forced a move away to [Arsenal](/soccer/team?id=359) earlier this month. [Carabao Cup](/soccer/league/_/name/eng.league_cup) in December and have dropped to ninth in the Premier League -- an alarming 21 points behind leaders [Arsenal](/soccer/team?id=359), even though Klopp somehow insisted this week that they had not yet given up on the title. [Liverpool](/soccer/team?id=364)'s [FA Cup](/soccer/league/_/name/eng.fa) defence ended on Sunday as [Brighton & Hove Albion](/soccer/team?id=331) scored a stoppage-time winner in a thrilling [2-1 victory](/soccer/report?gameId=661511) at the Amex Stadium ( [stream a replay live on ESPN+, U.S. Klopp fumed on the touchline for much of the game as Liverpool looked sloppy, lacking in confidence.

Holders Liverpool were knocked out of the FA Cup after losing 2-1 at Brighton & Hove Albion in the fourth round on Sunday as Kaoru Mitoma struck the winning ...

We've got everything in our squad to keep pushing on and hopefully we can go further in the competition." But we ground it out against a top side and got the win," Dunk told ITV Sport. We've been worse," Liverpool defender Andy Robertson said. "This season has been nowhere near good enough. Sometimes you've got to win a game like that. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

With 11 minutes left in this FA Cup fourth-round tie and the score 1-1 Jürgen Klopp could be seen racing out to the touchline, yanking the snood from his ...

And that was pretty much that for Liverpool, who never really looked like winning this game in the second half. The main negative was a lack of any obvious understanding the rest of the time. Klopp will feel it was poor defending, poor cover, sleepiness in the centre. The main positive here for Liverpool was the odd flicker of synergy between the front three. He glides, he skates, he dusts the ground. The Amex Stadium was a grey chilly place at kick off, with a low nautical drizzle creeping in under its swooping plastic eaves. On the other hand, this does not look like a team poised to mount an irresistible surge. Brighton would go on to win the game, deservedly, with a brilliant goal a minute and half into stoppage time. There has been talk of tired players, of the shadows of last season’s ghost quadruple, of recruitment mistakes made, of Klopp losing his magic dust. Elliott made a wonderful run through the centre as Salah scurried down the right. At the final whistle Klopp hugged Roberto De Zerbi and hand-slapped the Brighton bench. It was beautifully taken by Karou Mitoma, a footballer who is basically made of feathers, dandelion spurs and some kind of super-light high-tensile alien metal.

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[attracting the notice of the national team](https://theathletic.com/4092212/2023/01/16/levi-colwill-leandro-trossard-callum-hudson-odoi/) en route. He had to be replaced at half-time by dependable Dutchman [Joel Veltman](https://theathletic.com/football/player/joel-veltman-EBhmvcwwf06JJRSb/). [Moises Caicedo](https://theathletic.com/football/player/moises-caicedo-Q6RUzfKA90DUFMdB/) from the centre of midfield. Gilmour has hardly had a kick since signing last summer — this was his first competitive appearance of the year — due to the dominance of Caicedo and Mac Allister, who reverted to his [World Cup](https://theathletic.com/football/world-cup/)-winning role with [Argentina](https://theathletic.com/football/team/argentina/) higher up the pitch once the Scot entered the fray. Lamptey came in at right-back, the position Gross initially occupied in the 2-2 draw at [Leicester](https://theathletic.com/football/team/leicester-city/) the previous weekend. Also if you don’t play so well — (as well as in) the last game at home against Liverpool, for example — it’s important to understand. “The result can make you think it’s very nice, because you won the game. It was a stunning way to send the holders out. De Zerbi played for the first time with two strikers in the absence of Lallana, his first-choice No 10, after he suffered a muscle injury at Leicester. Two more of the big influences up the spine of the side De Zerbi is shaping, Yet, in some respects, beating Jurgen Klopp’s side at the Amex Stadium for the second time in 16 days to dump the holders out of the [FA Cup](https://theathletic.com/football/fa-cup/) was arguably an even more impressive indication of how this group are progressing under Roberto De Zerbi. The performance on Sunday lacked the fluency of that comprehensive league victory.

Japan winger Kaoru Mitoma scored a spectacular late winner as Brighton knocked holders Liverpool out of the FA Cup with a 2-1 victory on Jan. 29.

Soma curled in a 75th-minute free kick to give his new club the lead. "I knew the defender would jump with a fake shot. Mitoma gave another dazzling performance on the left wing before hitting the memorable winner.

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Liverpool's struggles continue as their defence of a second trophy ended prematurely with defeat to Brighton in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Back at the scene of a 3-0 Premier League thumping a fortnight ago – which Jurgen Klopp described as the worst of his managerial career – Liverpool looked ...