Liverpool beat Barnsley 4-1 at Anfield to reach FA Cup fourth round

Liverpool defeated League One side Barnsley 4-1 at Anfield to progress to the FA Cup fourth round and will host Brighton next, after a match in which the visitors made Arne Slot’s team work for the win.

Dominik Szoboszlai opened the scoring with a 30‑yard strike and Jeremie Frimpong added a second, but Szoboszlai then gifted Barnsley a way back with a miscontrolled backheel that allowed Adam Phillips to score and make it 2-1. Barnsley had started strongly, with Davis Keillor‑Dunn hitting a post inside 29 seconds and other early chances.

The introduction of Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitiké on the hour settled the tie; Wirtz curled home a third and later supplied the stoppage‑time cross for Ekitiké’s finish. Barnsley’s appeals for a penalty when Reyes Cleary went down under a Szoboszlai challenge were dismissed on the field, with no video assistant referee to review the incident.

Barnsley head coach Conor Hourihane called Szoboszlai’s giveaway “a little bit disrespectful,” a view the Liverpool manager Arne Slot said he shared and intended to discuss with his player. The result ended any late Anfield nerves and sent Liverpool into the fourth round to face Brighton.

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