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Liverpool teenager Curtis Jones stole the spotlight from new signing Diogo Jota\u2019s debut with two goals and a starring role in a 7-2 Carabao Cup victory over League One Lincoln.<\/p>\nLiverpool teenager Curtis Jones stole the spotlight from new signing Diogo Jota\u2019s debut with two goals and a starring role in a 7-2 Carabao Cup victory over League One Lincoln.<\/p>\n
Jota, signed from Wolves for \u00a341million on Saturday, was handed his first appearance with 33 second-half minutes but the 19-year-old from Toxteth had already done the damage.<\/p>\n
Jones scored Liverpool\u2019s third and fourth goals before half-time, both cutting in from the left to curl in right-footed shots, and was the visitors\u2019 main creative force in midfield.<\/p>\n
He also won the free-kick from which Xherdan Shaqiri whipped in the opener -his first goal in over nine months \u2013 with Takumi Minamino continuing his promising start to the season with a first-time shot after Lewis Montsma had given away possession playing out from the back.<\/p>\n
All of Liverpool\u2019s four first-half goals were scored from at least 20 yards but this was no pot-shot contest, there was plenty of quality football on show.<\/p>\n
Eighteen seconds after the break Minamino added another, following in Harvey Elliott\u2019s smothered effort, then Marko Grujic scored his first for the club four and half years after joining, and Divock Origi wrapped things up with his ninth goal in 12 League Cup ties late on.<\/p>\n
However, Tayo Edun and Montsma gave a somewhat significant Lincoln contingent in the stands for a behind-closed-doors game at the LNER Stadium something to cheer by briefly making it 5-1 and 6-2.<\/p>\n
Jurgen Klopp made 10 changes, with only Virgil Van Dijk surviving from Sunday\u2019s win at Chelsea, with summer signing Kostas Tsimikas and 19-year-old academy graduate Rhys Williams making their debuts.<\/p>\n
The team selection offered the likes of Shaqiri, Origi and Grujic the chance to put themselves in the shop window as all are surplus to requirements, but only the former \u2013 on his first start since December \u2013 put in the sort of performance which suggested he wants to fight for his squad place.<\/p>\n
During Origi\u2019s time at the club his main contributions have come in high-profile matches \u2013 the Merseyside derby, the Champions League semi-final comeback against Barcelona and subsequent final \u2013 but he regularly fails to impose himself on lesser opponents.<\/p>\n
This was one of those occasions as his main contribution before his 89th-minute breakaway goal was the cushioned header for Jones\u2019 first and a fierce shot parried by Alex Palmer.<\/p>\n
Jota, too, had a quite introduction to life with the Premier League champions but that was somewhat understandable as he finds his feet.<\/p>\n
The Portugal international is likely to get another opportunity against Arsenal next week, if not in Monday\u2019s Premier League match then in Thursday\u2019s Carabao Cup fourth-round meeting at Anfield against the Gunners.<\/p>\n
When the pair met last season in this competition it finished 5-5, Liverpool winning on penalties, and on this evidence it would seem goals are guaranteed again.<\/p>\n