00:00Let's have a look at the Liverpool side for this second game at Anfield with Athletic Club.
00:06Giorgi Mamadashvili, of course, is in the goal.
00:10Alisson is due to rejoin with the rest of the squad later in the week.
00:15Wattaro Endo will again play at the heart of the defence.
00:19Still, of course, Virgil van Dijk is absent from this fixture.
00:23Joe Gomez is getting back towards fitness, but ahead of them,
00:26that is a really potent and positive-looking Liverpool attacking line-up.
00:31Yeah, look, there's plenty of players there with real pace.
00:33We've got an attacking purpose about them.
00:36Really looking forward to seeing Kirk.
00:37Obviously, we've seen a lot of them when he played for Bournemouth last season.
00:39We know the qualities that he's got.
00:41Fringfong's been around numerous clubs over the last few years.
00:46I really like what I've seen of him in the recent friendly that he played in
00:50where he was so positive.
00:52You know, I don't have to see him do a lot of defending.
00:54He might have a bit of that today.
00:56But going forward, in that advanced position,
00:59some of the crosses to deliver were absolutely fair.
01:02And for Athletic Club, well, they bring out their big guns for the second game.
01:06The Williams brothers, Ojan Sanse as well.
01:09They've got Spain's number one Unai Simon in goal,
01:12though, well-situated in defence as well,
01:14with Baciche and Dani Vivian.
01:17And then Nico Williams, Sanse and Iñaki Williams
01:19providing the ammunition for Marouane Sanadi,
01:23who lead the line for the second game.
01:26Right, time to get down to business.
01:28Athletic Club will get us underway.
01:30Darren England is the referee for the second game.
01:33The first ball lifted towards Sanadi,
01:36but the header won by Wattaro Endo.
01:38And in steps Ibrahim Okunate.
01:41Away from here as well, just curling into the far corner.
01:44he'll be disappointed with that finish.
01:46I think Jesus Arezzo was expecting the pass that we were expecting,
01:49and Salah just did something out of this world.
01:51That's a good ball by Sobos Lai.
01:54Ekotike.
01:56Salah!
02:00Inevitable.
02:02Absolutely inevitable.
02:04Mohamed Salah strikes Liverpool in front.
02:07He just said to Gakko, that's how you do it.
02:09Absolutely brilliant from Ekotike, though.
02:13Lovely play over on this left-hand side.
02:15A little step over.
02:17Nothing that Vivian could do.
02:19You know, you sort of guess where he's going to go,
02:22but you haven't got the pace to go with him.
02:25And look where it's came from once again.
02:27You know, Salah was involved in that deep in Liverpool half.
02:31And then they broke forward.
02:32He's certainly onside from the ball from Sobos Lai.
02:34Now you're 1v1.
02:35How can you affect the game?
02:36Now watch that little step over.
02:37He's away from him, pulls it back.
02:39Touch from Salah.
02:40Gives the goalkeeper the eyes if he's going to go to the far post
02:43and just whoops it into the near post
02:46to give Liverpool a 1-0 advantage.
02:48Excellent finish from him.
02:50Look at that.
02:50That's glass.
02:56Delivery is deep round the back
02:58and it's a real chance in front of goal.
03:01And Ojan Sancet has a really good knack
03:04of popping up with goals for Athletic Club.
03:07And he's got himself one there with the coolest of takes.
03:11Yeah, really cool finish from Sancet.
03:13Liverpool will be disappointed whether they defended it.
03:16It's one thing, you know, you've got to get your set positions.
03:20But when the ball's played across the box in the manner that it was,
03:22someone's got to react to the ball.
03:24I mean, he's had so much time to bring the ball down.
03:26I thought they were too high up initially,
03:29which allowed the space to play the ball empty.
03:31But when it comes back here,
03:31look at the numbers of the Liverpool players just watching
03:34Sancet get into the position to finish it off.
03:37And he was cool in his persona.
03:38If I touch his left foot and then fires into the far corner
03:41to get Athletic Club back on level terms.
03:45The nudge not supported by the referee.
03:47Here's Gravenberg!
03:52And it's in now!
03:54Liverpool have their second!
04:00Gravenberg's shot was too hot to handle.
04:05And they were battling to turn the ball home.
04:08Cody Gancro got the touch.
04:10When I say to take the short corner,
04:11I might prove more dividends doing that way in here.
04:14You can see where they've got the reward.
04:16Gravenberg with a strike.
04:17I think the track claimed it was offside
04:18when the strike comes in.
04:22Certainly, Hekateke
04:24was just offside.
04:28I don't think he had the last touch.
04:29I think it was Gakpo that just might have
04:31just clipped it over the top of Unai Simon.
04:33They don't well just to react to that shot initially
04:37because you can see it comes from a crowd of players.
04:39Tries to get to it.
04:40And there was Gakpo with just a little
04:42minus of touches over the top of the keeper.
04:44So the corner for Athletic Club,
04:47and it's met at the near post
04:49quite brilliantly
04:50by Marouane Sanardi.
04:54That's an outstanding take.
04:57It was all about the quality of the delivery
04:59from the corner kick.
05:00I think it was Kyrkic,
05:01who was Liverpool's player,
05:04just outside the near post there.
05:06And Sanardi came in with a great purpose.
05:08He got a lot of purchase on it.
05:10which gave the goalkeeper,
05:11Amir Dashvili,
05:12no chance whatsoever.
05:13Just see what Kirk is,
05:14what Sanardi's run
05:15just goes over the top of Kirk.
05:17He might have just took a deflection
05:19en route through,
05:20off of Cody Gakpo.
05:22Just see when he gets a header here.
05:25There's a clicked header,
05:26yeah,
05:27and it just came off Gakpo.
05:28Nothing he could do about it.
05:30Goalkeeper was routed to the spot.
05:34He certainly wasn't going in.
05:35Cunate.
05:41I just feel that they've just got on top of Liverpool a little bit.
05:44That's going to change now.
05:46Gravenberg for Gakpo.
05:49Still got it.
05:50Still got it!
05:54He's got himself two now,
05:56has Cody Gakpo.
05:58And what a way to put things right
06:00after putting through his own net.
06:01Yeah, absolutely.
06:03He'll be delighted with that,
06:04and he'll be disappointed
06:05if they gave away the equaliser.
06:07I've got to tell you,
06:08you and I, Simone,
06:09won't be quite to see this again
06:11because it was straight at him.
06:12I mean,
06:13this is a bread and butter save for the goalkeeper.
06:15It looked like,
06:16initially,
06:16that Liverpool had overindulged,
06:20but Gravenberg done really well.
06:22You can see how long it took
06:23Gakpo to get his strike away,
06:25but straight at the keeper.
06:26He's got to save that.
06:28It doesn't matter
06:28if it comes through
06:29quite a few players or not.
06:30It's right at him.
06:32He'll make the initial save.
06:33Gakpo's done well.
06:36He's hit it with a bit of pace,
06:37but the keeper will be disappointed
06:39that it's gone straight through him
06:40and into the back of the net.
06:41Well,
06:41he had no right to keep the ball
06:43to start with Cody Gakpo.
06:46And his persistence pays off.
06:48Unai Simone with one that
06:49he'll want to get out of the way
06:51in pre-season.
06:53And that should be that.
06:55One more kick downfield
06:56from Mamadashvili.
06:59What a day we've had
07:00at Anfield.
07:02It ends with two victories
07:04for Arna Slaught
07:05against Ernesto Valverde's side.
07:08It was a thumping in the first game,
07:09much closer in the second.
07:11But Liverpool,
07:12ultimately,
07:13thanks to Cody Gakpo,
07:15have themselves
07:15another win.
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