LASK 3-6 Liverpool: result and report

Report

Liverpool won 6-3 away at LASK, with Bradley Barcola scoring a hat-trick. LASK's late goals made the scoreline look closer than the game was for most of the match.

Liverpool scored twice in two minutes to take hold of the game. Ronald Araujo opened the scoring on 22 minutes from a Konstantinos Tsimikas assist. Barcola added the second on 24 minutes from Lewis Koumas's pass. He struck again on 37 minutes, set up by Florian Wirtz, so Liverpool went in 3-0 up.

Jeremie Frimpong made it 4-0 on 51 minutes, again from a Tsimikas assist. Robert Ljubicic pulled one back for LASK on 63 minutes, but Barcola completed his hat-trick three minutes later from Frimpong's pass. Koumas then made it 6-1 on 72 minutes, also set up by Frimpong.

LASK's late response

LASK still finished the stronger. Florian Flecker scored on 74 and 77 minutes. Yvan Dibango set up all three LASK goals. Ljubicic and Flecker both started on the bench, so every LASK goal came from a substitute.

Chances against the scoreline

Liverpool were clearly the better side, but six goals overstates the gap in chance quality. They finished with 2.73 xG to LASK's 1.50 and had nine shots on target to four. They also hit the woodwork once. Yet big chances were level at five each, and Liverpool scored six times from those nine shots on target.

The wider picture still favoured Liverpool. They had 64% of the ball and 20 key passes to LASK's 11. They also sustained far more attacking pressure across the match, while LASK's threat came mostly in short bursts.