Three Big Absences and One Simple Job for Liverpool in Austria

What Iraola’s Injury Picture in Linz Really Tells Us Liverpool travel to Austria needing a straightforward result against LASK, and Andoni Iraola has been upfront about the fact his hand is partly forced on team selection.

Three key players remain unavailable. Cody Gakpo, Alexander Isak and Dominik Szoboszlai all sat out the 3-0 league defeat to Manchester City, and none of the trio has returned to full training with the group.

With this the second fixture in a run of nine matches across 28 days, the margin for error on squad management is thin, and getting the rotation right matters as much as the result itself.