Liverpool v Wolves: FA Cup third round – live

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The players will be out on the pitch shortly, will the holders get their title defence off to the perfect start? Or will they be the first defending champions to be knocked out at this stage since 2018?

League One side Sheffield Wednesday are still leading Newcastle United 2-1 and are into six added minutes. Catch all the updates here:

Wolves manager Julen Lopetegui has made it clear he isn’t happy this week, saying: “I don’t understand how we play in one competition with two days’ less [preparation] than the opponent. Maybe one day [less preparation], it can happen. But two days, it is a lot. It is a big difference for us. They have two days’ recovery more. I am sorry but I don’t understand this.” Read the full piece:

“Evening, Sarah,” Ian Copestake says. “Have got my Darwin bingo card ready to toast each miss as it happens. May as well enjoy it until his radar is back from the shop.” He may be on firing form today, we will find out in 20 minutes time.

New Liverpool signing Cody Gakpo is in the mix today, making his debut. Klopp said of his new player: “Of course, with our situation, injuries with the strikers as well, it’s really nice to have a guy on the pitch who obviously is pretty natural in a lot of things. [He gets] the offensive part of the game and knows where the goal stands. That’s always very helpful. He’s obviously full of joy, enjoying each second in the moment. So that’s very good.”

Some other matches have concluded in the FA Cup. West Ham beat Brentford 1-0, Wrexham defeated Coventry United 4-3, Luton town and Wigan Athletic ended 1-1 so that will have a replay and Grimsby Town won 1-0 against Burton. Sheffield Wednesday have gone 2-1 up against Newcastle – what an upset that would be – with under 20 minutes to go.

There has been a lot of action in the competition already today and here are some reports from the stadiums to catch up on ahead of this kick-off:

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Sheffield Wednesday are currently playing Newcastle with the score 1-0 in the hosts favour after 58 minutes. My colleague Luke McLaughlin is taking you through that one if you want to get all the action before Liverpool gets underway at 8pm:

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp had his say on Virgil van Dijk’s injury in his press conference for the Wolves match. He said: “It was a surprise for us and a big blow. The diagnosis was pretty harsh. We talk about weeks, more than a month. It’s a muscle thing - nothing different to say - it was one sprint too much in that moment. For Virgil, it is hard for him but he played an incredible amount of games over the last years and we cannot use him on the pitch, only off the pitch, and we will do that. He never had an issue with muscles before and it just now happened. That’s how it is. We did nothing different.”

Klopp and Van Dijk Photograph: David Blunsden/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock

Wolves have made a huge eight changes from their 1-1 draw to Aston Villa, including a change of goalkeeper with Sarkic starting.

Liverpool have made four changes from their 3-1 defeat to Brentford with new signing Cody Gakpo getting his debut at Anfield. Jordan Henderson also returns from his side-lining with concussion.

Preamble

Hello and welcome to our coverage of Liverpool’s FA Cup tie against Wolves. The match rounds off the day’s action which has seen a lot of twists and turns. Burnley overcame Bournemouth, Blackpool smashed Nottingham Forest and Chesterfield came close to knocking out West Brom. Could the game at Anfield through up more shocks?

Liverpool are not having the best season and do look out of sorts from their form in the last few years but it would still be a slight upset if they were knocked out by Wolves this evening. Jurgen Klopp’s side will have to overcome their opponents without Virgil van Dijk after it was confirmed the star will be out for over a month with a hamstring issue – more on that later.

The team news will be out shortly so we will see who Klopp selects at centre-back in his place. Stay tuned for all the updates ahead of kick-off at 8pm.