"The better team won" - Rob Edwards reacts after Wolves' FA Cup defeat
Rob Edwards believes the better side won as Wolves' FA Cup campaign came to an end at the hands of Liverpool.
Hwang Hee-chan's injury time finish proved to be nothing but a consolation as goals from Andy Robertson, Mohamed Salah and Curtis Jones knocked Wolves out of the competition.
Edwards was particularly annoyed at the manner in which Wolves allowed Salah's strike, which came just four minutes after Robertson's opener, but he also felt the Reds deserved the result.
"It's not a tough one to take, the better team won," Edwards said.
"They were really good tonight and it was hard for us. I've got no qualms or excuses.
"I thought their level was excellent and I thought they deserved to win.
"We tried to stay in it as long as possible at half-time. We were relatively happy, even though I felt like they were clearly going to have a lot of the ball.
"We had to defend a lot of set-pieces, but we were limiting them to long-range shots and not too many efforts.
"The most frustrating thing for me tonight was the timing of the second goal and how we dealt with the kick-off, that was the killer.
"Even at 1-0, we're still in the game and anything can happen, like we saw right at the end, we still get a goal and at that moment the game was done.
"But we needed to remain in it longer and that second one was really frustrating, that's the thing I'm most disappointed about tonight."
Wolves came into the game on a high after beating Liverpool 2-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday night.
When asked if the cup defeat was harder to take because of that Tuesday victory, Edwards added: "No, I don't think so.
"You have a doubleheader against Liverpool and for any team in Europe it's hard.
"So even for us to win one of those games, we have to be seeing that as a big, big positive.
"We tried tonight, but I thought their level went up. I don't think we really dropped, but it was just they made it very, very difficult.
"They were better (than on Tuesday). I thought their counter-pressing was better, I thought their intensity was better, I thought they won the ball back quicker.
"There were moments on Tuesday where we got through them with the ball. We weren't quite able to penetrate their last line, but we got through them a few times and we fought.
"We changed some of our positioning but we thought we might be able to do that again if they press in the same way, but I thought their intensity was better.
"I felt like it was really hard for us to be able to get through them around or behind them tonight."
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