Woodburn eclipses Owen to become Liverpool’s youngest scorer

While Woodburn’s landmark goal will attract much of the attention, the 17-year-old’s fellow Academy prospects Ovie Ejaria and Trent Alexander-Arnold also impressed after being named in Klopp’s starting line-up.

The Belgium global prodded home a superb cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold at the near post with 14 minutes to play and another of Jurgen Klopp’s teenage rookies, Woodburn, made Liverpool history aged 17 years and 45 days to seala return to the final four for last season’s beaten finalists. From the moment I came here I’ve never had regrets and that is one thing that makes me calm.

Woodburn became Liverpool’s youngest ever goalscorer at 17 years and 45 days with his strike from close range.

Speaking to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Monk praised his players” efforts, in spite of the result: “I asked the players to play a different way and we followed it all to a “t”.

Woodburn’s strike, and a second in as many matches for Divock Origi, offered a welcome positive after a hard few days in which Liverpool lost playmaker Philippe Coutinho for at least five weeks with ankle ligament damage, having already been without Danny Ings (knee) and Daniel Sturridge.

It’s a nice story and all the boys are really happy for him.

“He’s a very important part of that but of course we can handle it”.

Leeds saw a goal ruled out for offside minutes later, but Liverpool held on to secure a 2-0 win that keeps Klopp’s hopes of securing his first trophy at the club alive.

On what was an exciting night of League Cup action, many supporters up and down the country took to Twitter to express their views, with many Liverpool fans delighted to reach the last four, especially as they were pushed all the way by a decent Leeds side…

Klopp has put his faith in a number of youngsters during his 14 months in charge and has been rewarded with several impressive performances, but he is keen to play down the growing expectation on them.

Coutinho has made a brilliant start to the season, scoring five goals and assisting just as many in 13 league games. But we needed him and we have to allow him to score goals.

“To be honest, he looks like a very down to earth guy but you could see the emotion in his eyes”, he said about the teenager’s reaction in the dressing room after the match.