The Nigerian, who has been consigned to the bench for most of his loan period with the Reds, replaced Brazilian match winner Coutinho in the 89th minute.
Coutinho had scored the winning goal a few minutes earlier in the 78th and Brendan Rodgers' introduction of Moses was able to help the hosts shore up the midfield after Liverpool were reduced to 10 men following the sending off of Henderson in added time.
Moses had two touches of the ball, one where he ran at the City defence but was undone by a heavy touch on the ball underlining his low confidence having been done a lot of harm with his length of time on the bench.
The 23-year-old is expected to play a big part in Nigeria's World Cup challenge in Brazil in June.
Sone Aluko looked good and in fine form when he came on as a 46th minute substitute as Hull City got a 5-3 victory over Sheffield United to secure passage into the final of the FA Cup on Sunday.
Hull will play Arsenal in the final on May 17 at Wembley.
The Tigers twice came from behind to win the high scoring encounter. Jose Baxter opened scoring for Sheffield in the 19th minute before Yannick Sagbo equalized three minutes before half time.
The League One side retook the lead two minutes later via Steven Scougall and went into the break with the advantage.
Hull came back firing soon after Aluko came on and equalized four minutes after the restart via Matt Fryatt and Tom Huddlestone gave them their first lead of the game on 54 minutes.
Stephen Quinn scored to make it 4-2 on 67 minutes in what seemed like the game was beyond Sheffield but Jamie Murphy's strike on 90 minutes meant that the Premier League side would endure a nervy finish as their opponents searched for the equalizer.
David Meyler put the game beyond reach for Hull in the third minute of added-on time for 5-3 as Steve Bruce's side marched on to the final where Arsenal awaits. The Gunners triumphed over Wigan on Saturday via penalties after regulation ended 1-1.
Aluko would hope to enter into the history books among the illustrious Nigerian players to have won the FA Cup. He would follow in the footsteps of such names like Daniel Amokachi, Nwankwo Kanu, Celestine Babayaro, John Utaka and John Obi Mikel.
It could also underline his push to be part of the Nigeria squad to the World Cup as Stephen Keshi continues to mull over his final team.
Mikel Obi also made an appearance for Chelsea after being on bench for more than seven days. The Nigerian replaced Chelsea's inform scoring striker Demba Ba who scored the only goal of the match against Swansea.
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