Liverpool vs Bayern Munich 4-3

Liverpool’s pre-season trip to Singapore comes to an end with a defeat to Bayern Munich at the National Stadium. The Reds took an early lead through Cody Gakpo who booted home a lovely finish as Liverpool broke on the counter two minutes into the game. Virgil van Dijk added a second with a set piece header and the Reds looked in control.

Bayern responded brilliantly. The exploited some iffy decisions from the officials and rode the line between on and offside expertly. Serge Gnabry drifted in behind to get the Bundesliga champions on the board. Bayern’s second was a more regulation mistake with Trent Alexander-Arnold pushing too high and leaving Gnabry space. He took to ball into the box, Joel Matip failed to close down and a simple pass was knocked in by Leroy Sane.

Diogo Jota, before Virgil van Dijk, confirmed as the club’s new permanent captain this week, rose highest to head home from a corner. That lead did not make it to half-time though, Serge Gnabry, halving the deficit after a brilliant ball from Kim Min-jae, before Gnabry then squared for Leroy Sane to equalise just under ten minutes later.

Plenty of changes were made in the second-half and one of those was the introduction of Luiz Diaz, who restored Liverpool’s lead after getting on the end of Mohamed Salah’s pass inside and finishing well. Again Liverpool were pegged back though, their defending costing them. Matthijs de Ligt’s header from a free-kick was parried out by Alisson, but straight into the path of Josip Stanisic who had a simple task with the rebound. The match looked to be heading towards a penalty shootout, before Kratzig’s lashed a strike into the top corner beyond a stunned Alisson.

This will be the third time that the two teams have met in a pre-season friendly, with Liverpool winning both of the previous encounters. In 2010, Liverpool won 2-0 in Munich, and in 2019, they won 3-1 in Singapore. This is a match that both teams will be looking to win, as it will give them a good measure of their strength ahead of the start of the new season. Liverpool will be hoping to continu

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Sarah H

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