It might have been a different story in this third round tie at Anfield.
We started brightly again and were denied the opener when Giorgi Mamardashvili produced the first of two world-class saves on the night to deny Lucas Bergvall.
Andoni Iraola's men progressed to the fourth round thanks to goals from Alexis Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai at Anfield on Tuesday night.
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That's all from us here on tonight's match blog. We'll be back on Sunday when Andoni Iraola returns to Bournemouth.
And the Liverpool head coach should be in positive mood after his much-changed did the business this evening.
The Reds earned a hard-fought 3-1 victory over Spurs on Tuesday night in the third round of the competition.
Mac Allister opened the scoring for Andoni Iraola's side during the first half, before Cody Gakpo doubled the advantage after the half-time interval.
After Saturday’s snoozefest, this was the ideal way for Andoni Iraola and his Liverpool team to blow away the cobwebs.
