A brace from Diogo Jota at the discount saves Liverpool

Liverpool started the season with an emphatic 4-2 win over Karlsruher, a team from the German Second Division. Although Darwin Núñez opened the scoring very quickly, the ‘reds’ had to come back from 2-1 down thanks to a goal from Cody Gakpo and especially the two, both at a discount, from Diogo Jota.

Jürgen Klopp lined up Trent Alexander-Arnold as the pivot in midfield and debuted his two summer signings so far: the Hungarian Dominik Szoboszlai in the starting eleven and the Argentine Alexis MacAllisterwho, with 10 on his back, assisted Diogo Jota in the final 2-4.

At minute 2, Darwin Núñez opened the scoring with a mild assist from Mohamed Salah at the turn that left him alone to define with aplomb.

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before the break Lars Stindl equalized (39′) and full-back Sebastian Jung rounded off the score (50′) after Klopp completely changed his line-up taking advantage of his time in the changing rooms.

Liverpool’s reaction came twenty minutes from the end, when Cody Gakpo, in turn, nailed the net a ball that Diogo Jota dropped head first.

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2-2 remained until half-time, when the roles were swapped. Gakpo put a good ball on the first touch to Digo Jota, who scored after leaving two defenses in a span of ground. It was minute 91 and the Portuguese still had time, two later, to make it 2-4 afterwards a steal from MacAllister before leaving him alone against goalkeeper Patrick Drewes.

Klopp’s first eleven

Klopp’s first line-up in the preseason it was formed by Kelleher; Conor Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Alexander-Arnold, Bobby Clark, Szoboszlai; Salah, Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz.

Jordan Henderson was the great absentee of the game as he is close to completing his move to Al Ettifaq from Saudi Arabia.