Liverpool on Tuesday night zoomed past Wolves in the second leg of this season FA cup third round encounter at the Molineux.
Liverpool had played out a 2-2 draw in the first leg of the encounter at Anfield.
Jurgen Klopp’s side came in for scathing criticsm after losing their last two Premier League games in desultory fashion at Brighton and Brentford.
Elliot received a pass from a teammate dashed forward and chose to send a long range shot towards the on rushing goalie, Hugo Lloris.
The young lad’s goal was what Liverpool needed to book qualification to the fourth round of the competition.
The Reds’ dismal 3-0 defeat at Brighton on Saturday left them languishing in ninth place in the Premier League, 10 points adrift of the top four.
In the bout of soul-searching that followed that embarrassment, Klopp said his struggling team needed to go “back to basics”.
Amid mounting questions about Klopp’s own future at Anfield, the German said this week that he will not leave the club unless he is forced to and hinted at changes in his squad during the summer.
– Tenacious Liverpool –
Sa was caught too far off his line but that should not detract from the quality of Elliott’s first goal since October.
Snapping into tackles and winning second balls, Liverpool were showing more hunger and tenacity than in recent weeks.
Gakpo was still searching for his first Liverpool goal in his third appearance since signing from PSV Eindhoven.
The Netherlands forward nearly broke his duck with a dipping volley that flashed just over.
Gakpo was replaced by Salah for the last 25 minutes, but it was Wolves who finished strongly with Ruben Neves’ free-kick narrowly clearing the crossbar.
Wolves’ best chance to draw level came when Jimenez couldn’t head home on the goalline from Traore’s cross as Joe Gomez got the crucial block.
Klopp will have been especially pleased by the sight of Liverpool’s defenders throwing their bodies in the way of every Wolves attack in a frantic finale.
Elsewhere, Championship side Birmingham survived a scare in their 2-1 win at third-tier Forest Green.
In a delayed third-round clash after the original tie was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch, Ben Stevenson’s brilliant long-range strike put Forest Green ahead after eight minutes.
But Lukas Jutkiewicz grabbed Birmingham’s equaliser with a low finish in the 50th minute.
And Kevin Long killed off League One’s bottom club in the 65th minute when he netted after Forest Green failed to clear a corner.
Birmingham will face second-tier Blackburn in the fourth round.
Result meant Liverpool will will slug it out with Brighton in the fourth round of the competition at the American City Stadium.
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