What Liverpool supporters did after being kept in at Old Trafford shows reality of Man Utd defeat

At full-time of what is now instantly an FA Cup classic here at Old Trafford, the banner over the heads of the Liverpool fans in the away end inadvertently said it all.

The neat slogan was supposed to accurately depict how it is around this particular part of Manchester but instead summed it all up for those of a Liverpool persuasion instead.

"There's nothing on earth like being a red," read the Old Trafford sign above many of the 9000-strong contingent and for much of this incredible game, it felt true to them.

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Instead, though, it all finally caught up with them. A 4-3 defeat sees them bow out at the quarter-final stage and the cold reality is that Liverpool were punished for too many sloppy mistakes in the final third as they let United off the hook time and again during a one-sided second period with a 2-1 lead.

It all seemed a bit too easy. That was until it suddenly wasn't.

Anthony's 87th-minute intervention - which was United's first real assault on Caoimhin Kelleher's goal after the restart - took it to extra time and it was here where Jurgen Klopp was finally made to rue the amount of absentees within his injury-hit squad.

How the Reds manager would have loved to have thrown on Thiago Alcantara to steady the midfield ship or Diogo Jota to sniff out a winning goal. Trent Alexander-Arnold might've been a real creative threat, while either Ibrahima Konate or Joel Matip could have prevented Marcus Rashford dashing through for the 112th-minute equaliser.

Throw in the inability to field Alisson Becker, Curtis Jones or even Ryan Gravenberch, whose failure to get off