Koumas announces himself on the biggest stage as Liverpool score six

A Night In Austria That Could Define Lewis Koumas’s Season Six goals away from home in the Champions League will always grab the headlines, and rightly so, but the story we keep coming back to from Liverpool’s trip to LASK is a smaller one tucked inside that scoreline.

Lewis Koumas has spent much of this season on the fringes of the squad, the kind of player whose minutes have mostly come in cup ties or the closing stages of games already settled.

On Wednesday night he finally got a proper opportunity in Europe, starting from the first whistle, and he made sure he did not let it slip through his fingers.