Barcola’s Hat-Trick Can’t Paper Over Liverpool’s Fragile Forward Line

Souness Is Right to Worry About Isak and Ekitike’s Durability Bradley Barcola’s hat-trick against LASK was the kind of night Liverpool needed from one of their expensive attacking additions.

Three goals, a genuine European headline, and proof that the money spent in that part of the pitch can still produce moments of real quality.

It does not, however, erase the deeper issue Graeme Souness flagged this week, and on this one the old Liverpool captain has a point worth taking seriously.