Reds back to winning ways with demolition: Frankfurt 1-5 Liverpool

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Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike both started for the first time as a pairing for the reds in an amended Slot line up. Frankfurt had both won and lost 5-1 in their opening two games of this tournament and it was they who fired early.

This had the effect of shocking Liverpool's players into action and it was Robertson who started a quick counter attack - firing the ball upfield and Ekitike, the former Frankfurt striker, was on to it. Two unlikely goal sources but it gave the reds a cushion.

Frimpong too had been lost in the first half to yet another hamstring injury with Bradley replacing him. But Bradley was providing thrust and Chiesa was providing work-rate that perhaps Isak has yet to fully understand.