LASK Linz Vs Liverpool Preview: Test For The Reds In Europe

Liverpool will play their first match in the Europa League against LASK Linz. (Photo: Twitter/@LFC)

JAKARTA Liverpool played caste in the European League in the 2023/2024 season. Their journey in the event began against Austrian representative LASK Linz.

The Reds will play as a visiting team to LASK headquarters at the Raiffeisen Arena, Thursday, September 21, 2023 evening WIB. Jurgen Klopp's troops arrived after starting a campaign in an impressive league.

A total of five matches in the English Premier League have been played by Liverpool before going to Europe. Of the number of matches they have never tasted defeat.

The details they won four times and drew one time. The result put them in third place in the standings, two points apart from Manchester City at the top.

However, LASK is one of the few European teams Liverpool has never faced in their long history. Therefore, the Reds need to be careful of their potential opponents.

This Austrian club has enjoyed their pretty good journey in the European League in recent years. They even reached the last 16 of the European League in the 2019/2020 season.

The team, coached by Thomas Sager, is in third place in the league standings this season and will certainly try to qualify from the group stage of the European League again this year.

In the league competition, they have competed seven times. Of that number, they managed to win four times, drew twice, and lost once.

Liverpool will most likely make a rotation for their game. Meanwhile, from the opposing side, all their players are okay and ready to appear.

Predictions of the line-up:

Liverpool (4-3-3): Alisson Becker; Joe Gomez, Joel Matip, Virgil van Dijk, Kostas Tsimikas; Stefan Bajcetic, Ryan Gravenberch, Harvey Elliott; Ben Doak, Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz

LASK Linz (3-4-3): Tobias Lawel; Felix Luckeneder, Andres Cedeno, Philipp Ziereis; George Bello, Sascha Horvath, Branko Jovicic, Florian Flecker; Elias Havel, Robert Zulj, Marin Ljubicic