By Victor Kanayo
The football world stood still and was in shock as Championship Strugglers sent Premier League leaders Liverpool packing from the FA Cup on Sunday.
The hard-fought victory means the second-tier side are now in the fourth-round of the competition.
It also ended any hopes of a quadruple of major trophies for Liverpool, who lead the Premier League by six points with a game in hand.
The Reds finished top of the revamped first stage of the Champions League and have reached the English League Cup final.
Ryan Hardie’s 53rd-minute penalty proved to be the winner for Plymouth, a club from the southwest of England which is in last place in the second-tier Championship and recently fired Wayne Rooney as its manager.
Liverpool fielded a heavily rotated lineup, without stars like Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk, and it backfired.
Earlier on Saturday night, Chelsea suffered same defeat after fellow EPL campaigners Bournemouth claimed a 2-1 win to move on.
Manchester United and rivals City edged into the next round of FA Cup after scratching victories against their lowly opponents.
