Will Rooney reports from Anfield.
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00:00Full-time here at Anfield, ended Liverpool 4-0,
00:06Liverpool to the 4th round of the FA Cup.
00:08A routine win, you expect it against League 2 opposition.
00:12Arne Slott made a lot of changes to his team,
00:148 in total from the 1-0 loss at Tottenham in the Carabao Cup.
00:18Semi-final earlier this week,
00:20a debut for 16-year-old Ryo Enjomoa,
00:23and he was excellent throughout the encounter,
00:25especially in the first half.
00:27Signed from Chelsea in the summer,
00:28a real live wire, and he displays why he's so highly rated,
00:31and why Chelsea were a little bit irked
00:33that Liverpool poached him from their academy.
00:36Liverpool dominated the first half, as expected,
00:39took the lead in the 29th minute through Diogo Jota.
00:43Liverpool mustered a counter-attack,
00:45Darwin Nunes, who'd missed a couple of chances beforehand,
00:48made the right decision this time,
00:50squared to Jota to finish,
00:52and it was 2-0 in the stroke of half-time.
00:54Trent Alexander-Arnold, Catherine Liverpool,
00:56and Virgil van Dijk's absence were a fantastic hit
00:59to find the top corner from the edge of the box
01:01on the stroke of the interval.
01:03Second half to be fair to Accrington,
01:05they tried to get back into it,
01:07and they struck the bar from long range,
01:09and then they had a header that they probably should have done better with,
01:12but Liverpool got back on top,
01:14and 14 minutes remain, and Jadon Danes,
01:16who'd come off the bench, put Liverpool 3-0 ahead,
01:20Federico Pieda, who came off the bench at half-time,
01:23had a couple of chances,
01:24he had his effort saved, but Danes, who'd started the move,
01:27followed his run and finished into an empty net,
01:29but Chiesa finally got his first goal for the club,
01:33it's been a frustrating time for him since he arrived
01:35in the summer from Juventus,
01:37he'd struck the post just before that,
01:39but a really good strike from Chiesa from about 20 yards,
01:44kept it low, posted in,
01:46it was a routine win for Liverpool,
01:48into the fourth round of the FA Cup,
01:51they are still fighting on four fronts,
01:53probably, if you ask a lot of people now,
01:56the FA Cup maybe is the one they'd go out in,
01:59given that they're in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup,
02:02they still have to turn that round against Tottenham next month,
02:05but Liverpool's attention now turns back to the Premier League,
02:09after two cup games,
02:10massive, massive trip to Nottingham Forest,
02:12high-flying third place Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night,
02:15then a really difficult game at Brentford on Saturday,
02:18but Arnaud Slott's managed to rest a lot of his players
02:22for those games, so that's good news,
02:25yeah, routine win for Liverpool,
02:27into the fourth, back into the Stanley Nil.