DARWIN NUNEZ and Luis Diaz pulled Jurgen Klopp’s men out of a purple haze to set up another comeback victory.
Boss Klopp looked bemused – just as he had done last Saturday in the clash with Wolves – as his defence fragility once again left them struggling.
Florian Flecker opened the scoring
Darwin Nunez levelled the score from the penalty spot in the second half
Just as Molineux they again headed for a tough talking – to at the break a goal down.
Yet the German hailed his team’s resilience then and that guts to battle against the odds showed through once more.
Liverpool had controlled the ball up until Robet Zujl was allowed a neat turn and shot that was deflected for a corner.
Luis Diaz fired the Reds into the lead just seven minutes after their equaliser
And Mohamed Salah poked the ball into the net after coming off the bench
Klopp brought in six of his shadow squad for the clash including 17 year old flying machine Ben Doak while midfielder Stefan Bajcetic found himself at right back.
That line – up, clad in all-purple and with £38.5M arrival Ryan Gravenberch starting for the first time, looked good going forward, too.
Yet what Klopp’s “new” Liverpool still has the same familiar problems at the back, as seen during that nightmare first 45 minutes at Molineux before a 3-1 comeback win.
Doak, with Bajcetic, 18, behind him, were being bullied by older more experienced opponents.
Harvey Elliott, another new midfielder who cost £16.2 million, struggled against LASKs on the same right flank, while Wataru Endo appeared overloaded.
In that challenging first half, Virgil van Dijk was mostly responsible for Liverpool’s best attacking threat at set pieces.
Following a beautiful play begun by Nunez and finished with a cross from Gravenberch in the 63rd minute, Diaz quickly took the lead.
And Mo Salah got it all sorted a couple of minutes from the end, nut – megging the goalkeepe after replacing Gravenberch.
The score line, once again, looked impressive but once again it told nothing like the whole story, only showed another version of the old one.
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Jurgen Klopp looked far from impressed when his side went 1-0 down