Substitute Jason Cummings inspired a terrific Shrewsbury Town fightback as the League One side came from two goals down to force a replay against European champions Liverpool in a thrilling FA Cup tie at New Meadow.
The Reds looked set for round five after Curtis Jones’ second FA Cup strike of the season and a comical own goal from Donald Love had put them 2-0 up, but Cummings scored twice off the bench to seal a memorable result.
Jurgen Klopp made 11 changes to the side that had started the 2-1 win over Wolves, with Fabinho, Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren all making their first starts since returning from injury.
The visitors took the lead with just a quarter-of-an-hour played, thanks in large part to a wonderful, incisive pass from Pedro Chirivella to set Jones in on goal and he finished coolly beyond Max O’Leary.
Such ruthlessness was sorely lacking at the other end ten minutes later when Shaun Whalley was sent bearing down on goal, only to be denied by an excellent one-on-one stop from Adrian.
Whalley then steered wide with a more difficult chance, while Liverpool perhaps should have been given the chance to make it two before the break, but Andre Pierre’s handball went unnoticed by the officials.
Sam Ricketts would have gone into half-time reasonably pleased with his side’s efforts, but within 30 seconds of the restart their hopes of an upset looked to have been ended by one of the great FA Cup own goals as Love inexplicably slotted a harmless cross into the bottom corner of his own net.
Callum Lang had a terrific chance to half the deficit after Lovren’s attempt to play offside had backfired, but Adrian was once again on hand to preserve Liverpool’s clean sheet, palming round the post.
It did not last however, because on 65 minutes Yasser Larouci felled Josh Laurent, and though the foul looked to have taken place just outside the box, Lee Mason pointed to the spot, allowing Cummings to send Adrian the wrong way and make it 2-1.
And the comeback was complete when the same man proved too sharp for Lovren, knocking a loose ball through his legs and then guiding beyond Adrian to earn an Anfield Liverpool.
