4th-tier Plymouth holds Liverpool at Anfield as Rooney leaves mark
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FOURTH-TIER Plymouth Argyle shut up shop and kept the door firmly closed to earn a superb 0-0 draw away to Liverpool’s youngest ever starting XI in yesterday’s FA Cup third round tie at Anfield.
Determined defending and unstinting effort kept the League Two team in the game against opponents lying second in the English Premier League, almost 70 places above it.
With a League Cup semi-final first leg to come against Southampton on Wednesday, Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp had made 10 changes from the side that drew at Sunderland last Monday and fielded five teenagers.
Spurred on by almost 9,000 noisy fans who had travelled the 470 kilometers to Merseyside, Argyle defended stoutly while showing little ambition to go forward and test a Liverpool defense in which Joe Gomez returned after a 15-month absence with injury.
For much of the game it had only 20 percent of the possession, not managing a shot for 60 minutes and finally bringing a save from goalkeeper Loris Karius five minutes later.
The home side, however, had few outstanding chances.
Earlier yesterday Fulham reached the fourth round with a 2-1 win away to Cardiff City in a meeting of two Championship (second tier) sides.
The winner was bundled in by 16-year-old Ryan Sessegnon, an England under-17 international, making him one of the youngest scorers in the history of the competition.
On Saturday, Wayne Rooney left his footprint on FA Cup third-round day with the first goal in holder Manchester United’s 4-0 rout of Championship side Reading to draw level with Bobby Charlton as the club’s record scorer.
His 7th-minute effort took his United tally to 249 since joining the 12-time Cup winner in 2004, but Rooney failed to surpass Charlton’s long-standing mark as Anthony Martial and two late goals from Marcus Rashford completed United’s easy victory at Old Trafford.
“I think it’s just a question of time to score one more goal and become in the history of Manchester United. It’s arriving; the big moment for him is arriving,” manager Jose Mourinho said after his side’s eighth straight win in all competitions.
EPL champion Leicester City enjoyed some respite from a poor campaign as it claimed a first away victory in domestic competitions this season with Ahmed Musa scoring twice in a 2-1 victory at Everton.
There were a few surprises on one of the standout days in the English soccer calendar with three of the five top-flight sides to depart being beaten by lower league sides.
Arsenal was in danger of becoming a sixth when it trailed 0-1 at second-tier Preston North End at halftime but Olivier Giroud’s 89th-minute winner sent it through 2-1.
The biggest surprise came in London where League One (third tier) Millwall humbled top-flight Bournemouth 3-0.
Tony Pulis’s West Bromwich Albion — eighth in the EPL — was beaten by Championship Derby County 1-2 at home while his former club Stoke City lost 0-2 at home to Championship Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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