Fabio Carvalho loved a productive night time in solely his second begin since leaving Liverpool for Brentford in a £27.5 million switch, scoring an overhead kick.

Carvalho left Anfield in pursuit of standard first-team soccer over the summer time and appears to have discovered that at Brentford.

Nevertheless, coach Thomas Frank has taken a affected person method to easing the 22-year-old into his beginning lineup – which may change now following harm to striker Yoane Wissa.

Tuesday night time noticed Carvalho make his second begin for the Bees, each of which have come within the Carabao Cup, together with his newest outing coming towards League One aspect Leyton Orient.

It was a tough begin for Brentford as their defence – together with Sepp van den Berg – was caught sleeping when a deep cross discovered Brandon Cooper to transform for 1-0 after simply 11 minutes.

However Carvalho was available to equalise quickly after, doing so with an excellent overhead kick after Kevin Schade’s solo run and shot was saved into hazard.

9 minutes later the Portuguese, who was deployed on the wing, drifted in a really perfect cross for Mikkel Damsgaard to go in for 2-1.

Carvalho then made it two assists as he received to the ball first on the sting of the field for a contact into the trail of Christian Norgaard, who blasted in to safe a 3-1 victory.

Brentford have been anticipated to win their third-round tie, however Frank was delighted nonetheless with Carvalho’s contribution.

“He’s taking steps in the correct course previously 5 – 6 weeks,” he advised BBC Sport after the sport.

“I used to be very happy with what I noticed from him; an important objective, an important help. He’s rising into what I believed he would carry to us.”

The previous Liverpool ahead may now come into rivalry to start out towards Tottenham within the Premier League on Saturday, with Van den Berg already a part of Frank’s first-choice XI.