FA Cup · ENG · Round 3

Exeter City
2 - 2 Full time
Liverpool

St. James Park

Lineups

Exeter City4-3-3
RO1Olejnik
CW3Woodman
TB39Brown
CR6↓66'Ribeiro
JR33Read
JM15Moore-Taylor
JT26Tillson
DN4↓62'Noble
LH10⚽↓84'Holmes
TN20⚽Nichols
AN14Nicholls
AB34Bogdan
CR56Randall
TI26↓77'Ilori
JE3Enrique
BS44⚽Smith
KS35Stewart
CB32Brannagan
RK40↓57'Kent
JC53Teixeira
CB9Benteke
JS48⚽↓71'Sinclair
Liverpool4-3-3

Exeter City substitutes

8 Matt Oakley ↑62'
11 Arron Davies ↑66'
31 Joel Grant ↑84'
13 Clinton Morrison
21 James Hamon
5 Jamie McAllister
16 Will Hoskins

Coach: Paul Tisdale

Liverpool substitutes

68 Pedro Chirivella ↑57'
54 Sheyi Ojo ↑71'
57 Joseph Maguire ↑77'
20 Adam Lallana
87 Conor Masterson
21 Lucas Leiva
39 Ryan Fulton

Coach: Jürgen Klopp

Match events

9'Tom Nichols assist: Josh Read 1 - 0⚽
12'Jerome Sinclair 1 - 1⚽
45'Lee Holmes 2 - 1⚽
Second half
57'↑ Pedro Chirivella ↓ Ryan Kent⇄
62'↑ Matt Oakley ↓ David Noble⇄
66'↑ Arron Davies ↓ Christian Ribeiro⇄
71'↑ Sheyi Ojo ↓ Jerome Sinclair⇄
73'Brad Smith 2 - 2⚽
77'↑ Joseph Maguire ↓ Tiago Ilori⇄
84'↑ Joel Grant ↓ Lee Holmes⇄

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Friday, 8 January 2016, 19:55 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

0Exeter City wins0Draws2Liverpool wins

2 past meetings on record. Biggest Exeter City win: Liverpool 3–0 Exeter City (2016). Biggest Liverpool win: Exeter City 1–3 Liverpool (2011).

20 Jan 2016Liverpool 3 - 0 Exeter CityFA Cup
24 Aug 2011Exeter City 1 - 3 LiverpoolLeague Cup