A late Mohamed Salah purpose spared Liverpool‘s blushes in an thrilling 4-4 preseason draw towards German facet SpVgg Greuther Fürth in Bavaria on Monday.
The end result capped a chaotic couple of days in south-east Germany for Jurgen Klopp’s facet after new €70 million ($76.3m) million signing Dominik Szoboszlai suffered an ankle harm in coaching on the eve of the sport and a thunderstorm brought on kick-off to be delayed by quarter-hour.
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A robust-looking Liverpool facet that included Alexis Mac Allister in midfield received themselves forward within the twenty second minute when Luis Diaz, who missed 31 video games with a knee harm final season, obtained the ball on the sting of the penalty space earlier than bursting previous two Greuther Fürth defenders and arrowing a shot past goalkeeper Jonas Urbig.
Klopp modified all 11 gamers on the interval however a goalkeeping error from Adrian gifted Greuther Furth an equaliser only a minute after the restart.
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Two quickfire objectives from Nunez put Liverpool again in entrance earlier than a defensive collapse allowed Armando Sieb to attain twice in simply three minutes.
Simply because it appeared as if the second-tier German membership would full their unlikely comeback towards the six instances European Cup winners, Salah popped up on the again publish to nudge Nunez’ cross over the road to make sure the scores ended stage.
