The hapless way Liverpool gave up each of Wolves’s goals might have been taken from a West End farce. Alisson was the culprit for the gift that was Gonçalo Guedes’s opener, Ibrahima Konaté the man in the frame for the Hwang Hee-chan strike that takes this tie into a replay.
Towards the end there was even a third comedy of errors when a Liverpool goalmouth scramble after a corner led to Toti putting the ball in the net but the goal was ruled – amid confusion – offside. It emerged later that the assistant had flagged the corner-taker, Matheus Nunes, after the ball had been returned to him.
