Jota on the double as Liverpool start pre-season schedule
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iverpool acquired their pre-season marketing campaign underway with a 4-2 win away to Bundesliga 2 facet Karlsruher.
In a packed stadium on the BBBild Wildpark, Jurgen Klopp’s facet performed two fully totally different XIs within the first and second halves, and the primary acquired off to an excellent begin as Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez mixed for the opening objective, with Nunez tucking previous the goalkeeper lower than three minutes into the match.
Liverpool, who handed debuts to new signings Dominik Szoboszlai (from the beginning) and Alexis Mac Allister (off the bench), have been then pegged again when ex-Germany midfielder Lars Stindl levelled the scores with a surprising volley, which got here from a nook and crashed off the crossbar and in.
After a brand new lineup got here out for the second half, Liverpool struggled to settle and Karlsruher took the lead when Stindl performed a sensible go and located right-back Sebastian Jung, who hammered the ball previous Liverpool goalkeeper Vítězslav Jaroš to place the hosts into an unlikely lead.
Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo and Diogo Jota galvanised the children round them halfway by means of the second half as Liverpool pushed laborious for an equaliser.
They discovered it when Joe Gomez’s cross into the field was headed down by Jota to Gakpo, who swivelled and slammed house for 2-2.
In the second minute of stoppage time, Jota acquired the ball from Gakpo and weaved his means by means of the Karlsruher defence earlier than knocking the ball coolly into the online. Within a minute he had scored once more — Mac Allister successful the ball, enjoying him in, and Jota scoring once more with a slotted end.
Klopp’s facet face one other German outfit in Greuther Furth on Monday, earlier than finishing their pre-season marketing campaign with matches in opposition to Leicester City, Bayern Munich and at last Darmstadt.