Barnsley FC player ratings with sevens and plenty of eights on a night to be proud

There was no repeat of the Oakwell side’s 2008 heroics at Liverpool, but the League One side pushed the champions right to the end in the third-round tie.

Murphy Cooper – the first two goals were before him before he could have seen them, but he made a great save to turn a Virgil van Dijk header onto the crossbar 7

Corey O'Keeffe – did a job on both sides of the back five 7

Tennai Watson – good defensively and in possession 7

Mael de Gevigney – made 10 clearances with his team inevitably under plenty of pressure 8

Jack Shepherd – got his head and his feet in the way of plenty of shoots and was cucumber cool chesting a cross back to Cooper 8

Nathaniel Ogbeta – worked really hard until his substitution 7

Adam Phillips – made a chance for David Keillor-Dunn inside the first minute and scored a goal in front of the Kop he will treasure forever 8

Jonathan Bland – forced a brilliant save in a very assured midfield performance 8

Vimal Yoganathan – like Bland, he did not look out of place in his surroundings with some excellent passing 8

Reyes Cleary – got into some good crossing positions without being able to pick his man out; maybe went down too easily when Barnsley were hoping for a penalty 7

Davis Keillor-Dunn – lead the line really well having headed against the post with less than 30 seconds gone 8

Substitutes:

Eoghan O'Connell (for Ogbeta, 73) – a Barnsley debut to remember for the centre-back 6

Patrick Kelly (for Phillips, 73) – kept the energy up 6

David McGoldrick (for Keillor-Dunn, 81) – put a header onto the roof of the net 6

Georgie Gent (for Yoganathan, 88) – N/A

Not used: Roberts, Jalo, Barratt, Farrell, Flavell.