Liverpool showed high confidence when entering the confrontation with Darmstadt. Strength was shown by coach Klopp’s army in the 5th minute when Salah opened the scoring. The Egyptian striker took a quick chance with a close-range shot.
Just 3 minutes later, Liverpool continued to punish the Darmstadt defence. Salah played the hero again with a situation of stealing the ball right in the opponent’s penalty area, then passing it to Jota to double the lead for “The Kop”.
Early on, Darmstadt had a goal conceded, but they maintained their composure. The German team launched an outstanding counterattack in the tenth minute of the game. With a perfect finish, Honsak entered his name on the computerized scoreboard, stopping Alisson’s hand.
Three goals were scored in the game’s opening ten minutes. Later in the first half, despite the numerous chances they had produced, neither team was able to make the other team’s net tremble.
In the second half, the openness of the game continued to be Liverpool and Darmstadt. However, only Liverpool took advantage of the opportunity. In the 59th minute, it was the turn of another player in Liverpool’s attack, Diaz, to raise the score to 3-1 for “The Kop”.
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This South American player always shows creativity in scoring. In front of a dense array of Darmstadt’s defensive players, he still jumped up and unleashed an extremely skillful heel loop to make it 3-1..
If Liverpool had saved in the second half, they could have scored more than 3 goals against Darmstadt. However, that was not a big problem when Klopp’s army still got the final victory with a score of 3-1.
Scroll through our pick of the photos of Monday evening’s action below:
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