{"id":181637,"date":"2025-12-08T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181637\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:17:08","slug":"fa-cup-3rd-round-draw-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181637\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup 3rd Round Draw Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool\u2019s FA Cup<\/a> campaign will start against Barnsley after the draw for the third round took place on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have been allocated as the home team for the cup tie, which will take place in January.<\/p>\n

The Reds will join the rest of the Premier League<\/a> in entering the competition at the third round, aiming to go further than last season\u2019s fourth-round finish. <\/p>\n

When will Liverpool vs. Barnsley take place?<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

The FA Cup<\/a> third round fixtures will be played over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, January 10 and 11.<\/p>\n

It will be Liverpool\u2019s fourth game of 2026, following on from the trip to Arsenal<\/a> in the Premier League<\/a> on Thursday, January 8.<\/p>\n

For that reason, it is likely that the Reds\u2019 fixture will be scheduled for a Sunday time slot.<\/p>\n

It will be a busy start to the year for Liverpool, who face Leeds<\/a>, Fulham<\/a> and Arsenal<\/a> in the first eight days of the month.<\/p>\n

Last season, Slot\u2019s men were knocked out in the fourth round in a narrow defeat at Plymouth.<\/p>\n

Will Arne Slot be in charge by then?<\/p>\n

\"Liverpool<\/p>\n

Slot currently has the backing of Liverpool\u2019s hierarchy, but the Times<\/a>\u2018 Paul Joyce stated that \u201cpatience will not be limitless\u201d and that \u201cresults will ultimately dictate Slot\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report came after Mo Salah<\/a>\u2018s bombshell comments that have shone a brighter spotlight on the issues at Anfield, which has seen Liverpool win only 11 of their last 22 games.<\/p>\n

Any decision over Slot\u2019s future will be unrelated to Salah\u2019s comments, but the pressure to oversee the turnaround, in performances and results, remains.<\/p>\n

2025\/26 FA Cup schedule<\/p>\n

\"LEICESTER,<\/p>\n

\u2022 Third round: Saturday, January 10
\u2022 Fourth round: Saturday, February 14
\u2022 Fifth round: Saturday, March 7
\u2022 Quarter-final: Saturday, April 4
\u2022 Semi-final: Saturday, April 25
\u2022 Final: Saturday, May 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s FA Cup campaign will start against Barnsley after the draw for the third round took place on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72927,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-181637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fa-cup","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}