Jürgen Klopp and Slaven Bilic fell about laughing when Joey O’Brien sliced a rare opportunity for West Ham United into the cold and presumably bored spectators in the Anfield Road. They had to find entertainment somewhere,to be honest, as there was precious miniature on offer in an all-Premier League affair that produced only another date in the congested diaries of Liverpool and West Ham.
A replay “is not what we want”, and said Klopp on the eve of the fourth-round tie,but a replay is what he got following a lacklustre contest of more long-term positives than incident. Cameron Brannagan, Kevin Stewart and João Carlos Teixeira took their latest opportunities to impress for Liverpool in the FA Cup while the visiting goalkeeper Darren Randolph was instrumental in delivering the stalemate.
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Source: theguardian.com