Rio Ngumoha Is Turning Heads Again, and Iraola Knows It

Ngumoha’s Linz Night Shows Exactly Why Liverpool Are Patient With Him Bradley Barcola’s hat-trick will get the headlines from Liverpool’s 6-3 win over LASK, and fair enough, three goals in Europe deserve the spotlight.

But our take after watching the game back is that Rio Ngumoha’s night in Linz might matter just as much for where this Liverpool side is heading.

The teenager is eighteen years old and still finding his feet at this level, yet nothing about his performance against LASK looked tentative. He took the ball in tight spaces, backed himself against defenders who had no answer for him, and kept doing it until the final whistle.