Liverpool are again in unfamiliar territory on Thursday night as they tackle LASK in Austria to start their 2023/24 Europa League journey.
A disappointing Premier League marketing campaign for the Reds final day trip noticed them end fifth which suggests they’re going to be competing within the Europa League for the primary time since Jurgen Klopp’s debut season on Merseyside.
Klopp’s males have began the brand new marketing campaign in tremendous fettle and so they rattled off their fourth-straight win at Molineux on Saturday forward of their continental enterprise.
LASK, who confronted Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham on this competitors three years in the past, have additionally began the season brightly, though they’re very a lot anticipated to compete with Sturm Gruz for ‘better of the remaining’ standing behind RB Salzburg within the Austrian Bundesliga. A play-off victory over Bosnian outfit Zrinjski Mostar ensured LASK progressed into the Europa League group levels.
Here is 90min’s preview of Liverpool’s upcoming Austrian journey.
LASK vs Liverpool H2H Report (Final 5 Video games)
Present Kind (all competitions)
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Nation |
TV channel/dwell stream |
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United Kingdom |
TNT Sports activities 1, discovery+, discovery+ App |
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United States |
Paramount+, fuboTV, TUDN USA, UniMás, TUDN.com, Univision NOW, TUDN App, ViX |
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Canada |
DAZN |
The Austrian aspect have not precisely had a lot luck with accidents as of late, with Tobias Anselm, Yannis Letard and Adil Taoui all absent as a consequence of ACL issues. None of those gamers have been included in Thomas Sageder’s group-stage squad.
Ebrima Darboe, who joined the membership on mortgage from Roma in the summertime, might earn minutes off the bench, however he isn’t but prepared for a begin, whereas a muscular concern is ready to maintain winger Lenny Pintor on the sidelines.
LASK predicted lineup (3-4-3): Lawal; Luckeneder, Ziereis, Andrade; Flecker, Jovicic, Horvath, Bello; Ljubicic, Zulj, Havel
Strict UEFA guidelines imply Jurgen Klopp has named a powerful 23-man squad for Liverpool’s group-stage matches, though the German boss will probably be anticipated to rotate closely on Thursday.
Trent Alexander-Arnold stays sidelined which suggests Joe Gomez ought to as soon as once more proceed at right-back with Jarrell Quansah incomes one other begin at centre-back. He might be joined by Ibrahima Konate, who earned minutes off the bench at Molineux.
Ryan Gravenberch is a certain guess to make his first Reds begin, whereas fellow new arrival Wataru Endo needs to be utilised on the base of Klopp’s midfield. There is also a primary aggressive begin for younger Ben Doak out huge.
Liverpool predicted lineup (4-3-3): Kelleher; Gomez, Konate, Quansah, Tsimikas; Endo, Gravenberch, Elliott; Doak, Nunez, Diaz
Whereas Klopp will make wholesale adjustments to his beginning XI, Liverpool will nonetheless boast a powerful beginning XI in Austria on Thursday. There are a number of gamers, together with a few new faces, with factors to show and impressions to make.
LASK are hardly constructed to compete in opposition to a aspect of the Reds’ calibre and whereas these kinds of journeys may be difficult, it is laborious to envisage even a rotated Liverpool outfit having many points. Klopp’s males ought to get their marketing campaign up and operating with a snug away victory.
Prediction: LASK 0-3 Liverpool
