Aston Villa made short work of an overmatched Liverpool side with a 5-0 win in their Carabao Cup quarterfinal encounter on Tuesday night.
With the senior team on Club World Cup duty in Qatar, Under-23 coach Neil Critchley took charge of the side with Liverpool fielding their youngest team ever with an average age of just under 19-and-a-half.
The young Reds looked dangerous in the opening 10 minutes, but it was the hosts that struck first when Conor Hourihane's free kick from the right edge of the penalty area beat Liverpool keeper Caoimhin Kelleher.
And Villa would double the lead against their inexperienced opponents soon after as Ahmed Elmohamady's shot took a wicked deflection off Morgan Boyes and floated over Kelleher's head into the Liverpool goal.