Plymouth star loses tooth minutes into FA Cup match after...

Plymouth Argyle star Nikola Katic lost a tooth in the opening stages of his side’s clash FA Cup clash against Liverpool – but had the last laugh after helping dump the Premier League side out of the competition. Play was stopped around the 17th minute mark at Home Park after a nasty incident involving the Bosnia international and teammate Adam Randell. Blood was seen pouring from his mouth as he received medical treatment on the pitch.

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Fortunately, Katic was back on his feet and was able to resume the game shortly after. The centre-half was immediately back into the thick of it to make an important clearance from a Liverpool cross. With their man okay, the Plymouth bench didn’t appear too concerned with manager Miron Muslic spotted grinning on the touchline after told his defender would be needing a trip to the dentist in the very near future.

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Plymouth went onto seal a historic 1-0 victory, sending Liverpool crashing out of the competition. Katic was perhaps his side’s standout performer, turning in a heroic display at the back where he made 17 clearances – 11 of those with his head. ‘I f*****g love it, I f*****g love it,’ an emotional Katic told ITV1 in his post-match interview when asked what the win means to him. ‘This is why I came here. it is good to get confidence of this win. We did good with the defensive structure and everybody gave their 100%. We did what the coach asked from us. That is it.’.

Liverpool, who have seen their hopes of a quadruple abruptly ended, opted to leave some of their star names out of the squad for their trip down south. Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, Alisson and Andy Robertson were among those given the afternoon off with Trent Alexander-Arnold unavailable through injury. Arne Slot was also forced into a change inside the opening 10 minutes with Joe Gomez going off injured with Isaac Mabaya coming onto replace him.

Plymouth, sat bottom of the Championship 44 places below Premier League leaders Liverpool, more than held their own in the first-half of Sunday’s match, matching Slot’s young side across the park. The hosts took a shock lead after 53 minutes after Harvey Elliot penalised for an inexplicable handball. Ryan Hardie stepped up to slam home the resulting spot kick. Arrow MORE: Joe Gomez injury update after Liverpool crash out of FA Cup against Plymouth.