Gary Lineker questioned whether Arne Slot underestimated Plymouth Argyle when selecting his team for Sunday's FA Cup fourth-round tie at Home Park.

Slot made wholesale changes to the Reds' starting line-up, with goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher the only player to keep his place from the team that started the 4-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur last week.

The Reds' head coach also left the likes of Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai at home for the match, so when Plymouth moved ahead in the 53rd minute, he was unable to call on some of his best senior attackers to attempt to salvage the situation.

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With Curtis Jones having informed Slot prior to kick-off that he was not feeling 100 per cent, Darwin Nunez was the only senior player the Dutchman was able to call on in the second half but he was unable to rescue the game as Liverpool's chances of an unlikely quadruple were ended by the Championship's 24th-placed team.

Speaking on The Rest is Football podcast, outgoing Match of the Day host Lineker questioned whether Slot's inexperience in English domestic cup competitions counted against him on Sunday. He said: “I just wonder whether perhaps his inexperience of cup competitions in this country and how small clubs can rise up for the occasion.

“That wasn’t just resting a few players was it, they weren’t even on the bench, the big guns. And I understand why he would do it, I totally understand, because they’ve got so many games and if they’ve got to sacrifice something… But you know, I just wonder whether he underestimated perhaps teams in the lower leagues.”