The FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup), is a yearly played premium knockout football contest in men's domestic English football. Power went out during Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) Vs Liverpool FA Cup live match on Tuesday, January 17th 18:45 here at Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, England. The match was Live Streamed on JioTV, Bet365 and Sony LIV, SONY TEN 2, SONY TEN 2 HD telecasted it through TV / Cable / Satellite.
The FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup) challenge between Premier League sides Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) and Liverpool saw a few inconceivable scenes occur due to a brief power-cut during the live game that left the players, fans and commentators confused.
The power-cut left the ground pitch dark as the floodlights suddenly turned off.
This incident happened barely a minute after the Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) kick things off and get straight on the front foot.
Earlier, the lights had even gone out while the players were warming up ahead of the start of the match, as reported by some of the audiences in the ground.
Once the power was restored
The ball was found lying out of the playing area and the match resumed. No clue about what happened during that time when there was no power. It was totally dark and clueless.
In-spite of having 58% of the ball possession over Liverpool’s 42%, the Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) lost the match. Harvey Elliott's (English professional footballer) 13th-minute stunner helps Liverpool to register a 1-0 win over the Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers). This is Liverpool’s first win against the Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) in the competition since 1952.
Liverpool kept alive its FA Cup fixtures. Now the Liverpool enters the fourth round to clash with Brighton at the famous Amex stadium on Jan 29th.
The Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhín Odhrán Kelleher (is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Republic of Ireland national team) has been on the winning side in all five of his FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup) encounters for his side.
It was Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) poor attacking strategy that resulted in the loss against Liverpool tonight. It may be disappointing for the Wolves to lose in their home ground. But, they can now fully focus on the Premier League season. The match saw 1 yellow card for Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) and 3 for Liverpool.
VAR (video assistant referee) issue
The FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup) is not licensed to use VAR (video assistant referee) across all its matches. Since 2018, as a part of trial, the FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup) was allowed to use VAR (video assistant referee) only for the fixtures that are played at Premier League grounds.
During the match, it was reported that the National Grid was aware of a fault that affects Walsall and Wolverhampton. They also assured to work swiftly on the issue to get the power restored. A spokesperson for the National Grid apologized for the inconvenience and conveyed that the power will be restored in a short time.
The FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup) management should make serious enquiries in this matter to ascertain the matter. The officials from the management and the respective Grid shall formulate a collaborative strategy to avoid such incident in the near future.
Please use the following official link of FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup) to know more about the fixtures, results and round dates: https://www.thefa.com/competitions/thefacup
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