That’s all from me. Congratulations to both sides for an excellent cup tie. Liverpool are through to face Brighton, and Barnsley leave Anfield with their heads very high, and possibly dreaming of what might have been.

Thanks for reading and for your emails. Bye!

Conor Hourihane, Barnsley manager, is next to speak:

I thought we were outstanding. We got a bit tired at the end but started so well, stuck in it at 2-1. They brought on top player after top player. I thought we were brilliant.

I was disappointed with Szoboszlai [for the backheel in front of his own goal]. I don’t think he does that in a Premier League game, or a Champions League game.

I felt like [Szoboszlai’s tackle on Cleary] was a penalty. A big decision that went against us.

Arne Slot, Liverpool manager, speaks to the TNT cameras

I was happy with the goals. They were nice goals. But it was far too long a game that was tight. 2-0 up and giving a goal away like that. Another bad moment. It could have been 2-2. There were not enough chances from all the possession we have.

On Szoboszlai’s error:

I don’t think you should do that in a Premier League, FA Cup game, League Cup game or a training session. It was a weird choice. I have my opinions on it, but I will keep them to myself and speak with Dom.

Liverpool will now face Brighton in the next round at Anfield, a very tricky tie indeed. You can see the full FA Cup fourth-round draw right here:

Transfer news, right here:

And Monday’s Football Daily had an FA Cup flavour.

“Nice to see Cleary swapping shirts with Szoboslai after the match,” emails Colum Fordham. “Two of the protagonists of the match, although the latter blotted his copybook somewhat with that backheel. Cleary is definitely a player to watch. Liverpool could do a lot worse than put in a bid.”

Szoboszlai, who scored a barnstorming opening goal for Liverpool and made an unbelievable gaffe for Barnsley’s goal, speaks to TNT Sports about that error:

Sorry for the team. I made it hard for us with an easy mistake. Football happens, we move on. We take the next round.

We wanted to show that we take it seriously. We showed we need the whole squad. They showed quality. We need more time to get to know each other better. We developed a lot. The new guys have settled in. I’m happy for Flo, for Hugo.

90+3 min: Another sensational cross from Cleary that bamboozled both Van Dijk and Mamardashvili, but McGoldrick loops his header just over the bar. Barnsley could easily have scored two or three here.

90+2 min: O’Keeffe plays a lovely one-two with McGoldrick and goes clean through on goal for Barnsley. But the winger has run his socks off tonight and labours towards goal. Konate, fresh on as a sub, gets back well to make a crucial tackle.

90 min: Five minutes of additional time. Barnsley’s race is run, but they should be hugely proud of their performance. Not for the first time against lower-league opposition, Liverpool have been made to feel very uncomfortable.

88 min: Cleary is still giving Szoboszlai a hard time on Barnsley’s left wing. The 21-year-old crosses low towards McGoldrick but Van Dijk clears the danger. Cleary goes again, taking on Szoboszlai, to win a Barnsley corner in front of the smiling away fans. If the winger doesn’t win the player of the match, I’ll be shocked.

86 min: Cooper in the Barnsley goal hasn’t put a foot or hand wrong all night. The three goals he has conceded have been out of this world, all of them goal of the month contenders.

82 min: Barnsley look like they have run out of energy. They are defending for their lives but don’t look to have the same thrust going forward on the counter-attack.

80 min: Barnsley make another change: the excellent Keillor-Dunn, who hit a post after 28 seconds, is withdrawn for the veteran McGoldrick.

78 min: Liverpool look the more likely to score next, but the hosts’ one-goal lead is still a perilous one. Liverpool are again guilty of overplaying as Ekitike chooses not to pull the trigger when Wirtz lofts a deft pass over the top. Weird! Shoot!

74 min: Changes from both sides. Liverpool are forced to take Ngumoha off, with Gravenberch coming on. That means Wirtz will go to the left, Gakpo to the right, Ekitike up top.

Barnsley make a double substitution: Eoghan O-Connell and Patrick Kelly on for Nathanael Ogbeta and Adam Phillips. The latter, Barnsley’s goalscorer that came through the academy at Liverpool, gets a standing ovation from both sets of supporters.

72 min: Ngumoha looks like he has pulled a hamstring, which is a real shame for the Liverpool teenager.

68 min: Easily the best player on the pitch is Barnsley’s Cleary. Every touch is full of quality, including a neat back heel to set the visitors away on another counter attack. Liverpool now double up on Cleary, who responds by delivering an outrageous cross across the face of Liverpool’s goal. The 21-year-old, who left West Brom in the summer, is playing like an international winger.

66 min: Barnsley manager Hourihane has now seen the penalty decision on a monitor and is absolutely raging inside his technical area, telling the fourth official a thing or two with some choice language. He is booked for his outburst.

64 min: As the furore of the penalty decision still bubbles away, Van Dijk connects with a Gakpo cross and nods just a yard wide!

62 min: This is such a close call. Szoboszlai definitely had a bit of Cleary’s shirt but the Liverpool man did get a crucial touch on the ball. Tin hat on, but I think the referee just about made the right call. But there are many that will see it differently.

“Sorry, but the ref has got that completely wrong,” emails Joshua Keeling. “That was a nailed on penalty for Barnsley, and probably a red card as well.

58 min: Liverpool’s tepid display in this second half has forced Slot to make a triple substitution just before the hour mark. Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike and Ibrahima Konate are on for Jeremie Frimpong, Federico Chiesa and Joe Gomez. Szoboszlai is still on.

54 min: Re that Gomez goal drought, Philip Cornwall emails:

“Liverpool fans at Anfield matches are divided into two groups: a small number who shout: “Shooooot!” every time Gomez gets the ball within 35 yards of the centre of goal; and a much larger number who tut politely about the other group, and observe good-naturedly that perhaps his limited shooting ability may have had an impact on that statistic.”

52 min: Ngumoha dances in the Barnsley box and hangs a lovely little cross to the back post. Gakpo is caught on his heels. Liverpool are really missing a proper No 9 at the moment.

50 min: Another good start to his half from Barnsley, who look a real threat. Cleary is flagged for offside when he was clearly onside. No VAR at Anfield tonight, remember.

48 min: Cleary goes past Frimpong and delivers an excellent low cross. The winger is a real threat for Barnsley down this left and now draws a foul from Chiesa.

Cleary scored an outrageous goal a couple of months back at Bradford City in League One. Check this out.

A few more of you have emailed in about Szoboszlai’s error, which is genuinely one of the moments of the season so far.

“Hilarious goal for Barnsley but kudus for Phillips for keeping going,” writes Tim Stappard.

“Execution of the pass was just horrendous,” emails Joey O’Doherty. “That’s why you don’t do daft think in your own box.”

“I’m trying to imagine what an old school Souness or Fergie reaction to that mess would be,” says Matthew Lysaght. “Dom would definitely need to bring his dinner.”

“The most ridiculous FA Cup goal Liverpool have conceded since Traoré against Burnley all those years ago,” adds Matt Dony. “Of course, Liverpool won the Champions League that year …”

“All right, I love Szoboszlai as much as anyone, but he should be subbed straight off for that,” emails Mike Taylor. “It wasn’t an error in execution, it was an idiotic bit of long-premature showboating, and it got exactly what it deserved. Get him off the pitch, and have him sit and think about what he’s done.”

I completely agree. Replays show that Szoboszlai knew exactly what he was doing – or at least thought he knew – and tried to deceive Phillips with a backheel INSIDE HIS OWN SIX-YARD BOX. It was both a terrible decision and terrible execution. It’s extremely funny to watch as a neutral but ultimately, it’s unprofessional and everyone inside that Liverpool dressing room should take an extremely dim view of that. Slot has an opportunity to send a message here, and he should swap Szoboszlai for Gravenberch/Wirtz/Endo/Nyoni/anyone else.

Half-time reading:

45 min: Anfield is deathly quiet, possibly out of embarrassment for Szoboszlai. The Barnsley fans are the only ones daring to make any noise at all.

Two minutes added on here.

43 min: I am genuinely a little shellshocked at that. Szoboszlai is an absolutely elite footballer but that is the sort of error my four-year-old would make in the garden (which I would have stuck away, naturally. He has to learn one way or the other).

38 min: Interesting marking from the Barnsley left-back for Frimpong’s goal. Ogbeta had both eyes solely on the face of Liverpool’s goalscorer, rather than watching his feet or the ball.

34 min: Gakpo is currently playing without a boot, carrying the loose footwear in his hand as he waits for a break in play.

32 min: Gomez with a cynical challenge to stop Cleary on another Barnsley counter-attack. Yellow card for the Liverpool defender, the first of the match.

30 min: Frimpong is playing so high he is effectively a winger, so there is plenty of space to attack down Barnsley’s left flank. Cleary has looked really lively for the visitors in that space.

28 min: Barnsley are sitting deep but definitely are a threat on the counter attack! Yoganathan releases Keillor-Dunn with a lovely trivela pass, and the Barnsley striker only has Van Dijk (‘only’) between him and Mamardashvili. Keillor-Dunn shimmies left and goes right to earn a yard of space but his shot is straight at the Liverpool keeper. Lively stuff from Keillor-Dunn, who has 14 goals already this season.

26 min: I have just found out that Joe Gomez has never scored a goal in his senior career. He joined Liverpool in June 2015. Remarkably, there is one Liverpool player that has more appearances without a goal: Ephraim Longworth went 370 matches without ever finding the net between 1910 and 1928.

24 min: Barnsley twice are close to an equaliser! O’Keeffe’s sends in a cross from the right, which deflects off Robertson and has Mamardashvili scrambling, but it falls just wide of Liverpool’s far post. From the resulting corner, Bland takes aim with a long ranger but Mamardashvili saves well, palming the ball wide!

22 min: “If Szoboszlai keeps this up, he’ll get a visit from the tournament organisers asking why he’s busting their balls,” emails Peter Oh.

20 min: Corner to Liverpool. Szoboszlai speculatively chips one towards the edge of Barnsley’s area, a la Paul Scholes against Bradford City, but overcooks the cross and it goes straight out for a Barnsley throw.

18 min: Liverpool are completely dominant now, and Barnsley can’t get out. Frimpong and Chiesa are probing away on that right flank but Barnsley are standing firm-ish, for now.

16 min: Szoboszlai hits another from distance, again pelting towards the top corner. Shepherd nobly puts his head in the way of the shot, and looks a little dazed as a result. The shot was so fierce that the ball has actually burst. A replacement Mitre is rolled onto the pitch.

14 min: It’s been a quiet opening for Ngumoha, but the 17-year-old deliciously drops his shoulder to beat O’Keeffe and drive to the byline. The cross is well defended by Barnsley but that was excellent work from the Liverpool winger.

11 min: Barnsley started this game so well, but find themselves behind. I’m not sure they could have done a lot about Szoboszlai’s goal. The Hungarian simply took a touch out of his feet and let rip. Wowsers.

7 min: Right on cue, Liverpool have their first spell of possession, which comes to an end when Szoboszlai tries a diagonal but ends up booting the ball straight out for a goal kick. The Barnsley fans cheer ironically, they are enjoying themselves.

5 min: A very nervy start from Liverpool! Frimpong is the latest to completely miss his kick and Barnsley again make a foray down the left, with Ogbeta sending a cross/shot narrowly over Mamardashvili’s bar. Liverpool have barely had a kick so far.

3 min: A mistake from Gomez allows Cleary to wriggle free and only the covering tackle from Van Dijk stops the Barnsley forward from going clean through!

Here come the teams! Liverpool are wearing a rather vibrant pint tracksuit top on top of their all-red kit. Barnsley are all business – no trackies – and dressed in an all-white away kit.

You’ll Never Walk Alone is belted out at Anfield, where there is quite an atmosphere. Thousands of Barnsley fans in the away end are only adding to that.

Liverpool manager Arne Slot, who will surely be looking over his shoulder now that Xabi Alonso is available, speaks to TNT Sports:

We have made a few changes but a few have to play here that have played so many games. That means we have a strong line-up.

We know that Conor Bradley is out for a long time. He was progressing and getting better and better. Now, he is injured. But that doesn’t really help us either. Now, we don’t have a lot of options with the players that are out.

From all the ball possession that we have, we probably don’t create enough chances, even though we probably create among the most chances from open play.

A bit more insight on Yoganathan from Simon McGrother, via email: “He is a rangy midfielder with a great toolset. He was instrumental in getting Oldham back into the league when on loan last season.”

Yoganathan is not the only former Liverpool academy player to feature tonight for Barnsley. Adam Phillips spent eight years with Liverpool from 2009-17 but never made a first-team appearance. After spells at Norwich and Burnley, the midfielder joined Barnsley in 2022.

Some Liverpool adjacent news here, in case you’ve been living under a rock today: Xabi Alonso, the man who Brian Howard dribbled around the score the winner for Barnsley in 2008, has left his position as head coach of Real Madrid.

Álvaro Arbeloa, who was an unused substitute for Liverpool against Barnsley 18 years ago, is Alonso’s replacement.

Vimal Yoganathan starts for Barnsley. The 19-year-old turns 20 tomorrow and is the first person of Sri Lankan Tamil descent to play professionally in England. Brought up in the Flintshire village of Trelawnyd, Yoganathan started playing football aged four and was signed by Liverpool before being released as a schoolboy.

Will Unwin interviewed Yoganathan last year and the teenager spoke of both his heritage and his time with Liverpool:

“Leaving Liverpool, especially as a Liverpool fan, was quite hard to take but looking back it’s just part of football. It was difficult for me because it was all I’d known for seven years of my life. It was an uncertain time and I didn’t know whether I was gonna have a career in football or not so that was a bit of a worry, but I obviously stuck to it and luckily I was fortunate enough to find Barnsley. It was a bit of a scary period for me personally, but I came out of it on the right side and I feel like I’m doing all right at the minute. Obviously things happen for a reason and I’m just glad to have found my feet again. It’s good to be at a club like Barnsley where I can showcase what I can do.”

You can find the rest of the interview here:

Conor Hourihane, the former Villa midfielder and now Barnsley boss, speaks to the cameras:

Anfield under the lights gives us an extra boost. We’re really excited but we understand the task at hand. You look at Macclesfield and they have given all the underdogs belief. We’re going to suffer and work very hard in a mid to low block. At times, we play good football at the right times. Hopefully we’ll have spells like that tonight.

Hourihane is still just 34 and has moved from a player to an assistant to a full-time manager in just over a year.

It’s been a rollercoaster. I want to be really successful. I’m really ambitious and hungry to get to levels like [Anfield] more often.

True to his word, Arne Slot has fielded a very strong XI, keen to avoid the same mistake as at Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup last season. It still looks like a 4-3-3, with a front three of Chiesa, Gakpo, Ngumoha. I have been hugely impressed by the latter, despite Ngumoha being just 17. Anyone can see he is an elite talent in waiting. Obviously he scored that winner in August at Newcastle, but I was also impressed last week with his impact off the bench against Leeds. Yes, Liverpool were held 0-0 but Ngumoha was a menace off that left flank as soon as he came on.

You’ll notice that Liverpool also have a very strong bench, which includes Ekitike. A welcome addition for Slot with so many attacking players sidelined.

Brian Howard, Barnsley’s hero in 2008, is stood on the Anfield pitch in the exact spot where he scored that winner. He speaks to TNT Sports:

I was chasing the referee because I should have had a penalty and I think I found myself in a position I shouldn’t have been in.

There was a little bit of skill and a bit of luck [to get around Xabi Alonso] but then I managed to sneak it in the corner. Jamie Carragher blocked off the far corner but I found the near post. I got Xabi Alonso’s shirt after the match, I asked to get Steven Gerrard’s but he had promised it to someone else. But nobody got it!

On the way back, we all got back off the coach and had a beer with the fans in the pub before going to celebrate with our families.

The fourth-round draw has just been completed. Liverpool or Barnsley will play for the right to play Brighton.

There are some tasty ties: Chelsea are off to Hull City (Liam Rosenior’s former side), Aston Villa host Newcastle and Macclesfield are at home again to Premier League opposition in Brentford.

Join Mark Dobson for the latest and live reaction to all the draws.