On Thursday, September 21, at 19:45 at the Raiffeisen Arena, the match of the 1st stage of the Europa League Group E “LASK Linz” – “Liverpool” will take place live at the Pro Arena.

Liverpool, one of the favorites to win the trophy, start with the first chance against LASK Linz (the two teams meet for the first time), in a group that also includes Union St. Gillois and Toulouse.

LASK Linz returns to the Europa League groups after a three-year hiatus (two seasons ago it played in the Conference League, where it reached the round of 16), but despite some notable results in the last period, does not say much in continental football (never did not even reach the 1/8 finals of any competition).

The team, coached by Thomas Sageder this summer, are in 3rd place in the Bundesliga with 14 points after seven stages (five points behind the leaders RB Salzburg), and in the last stage of the championship they won at Klagenfurt, the score was 3-1 .

LASK Linz finished the previous season in 3rd place and has the league title and the Austrian Cup, both won in 1965.

At team level, there have been several signings this summer out of contract or returning from loan, none of them far-reaching, but Japan international Keito Nakamura, the team’s top scorer (14 goals last season), left for Reims, for 12 millions of euros.

Liverpool are back in the Europa League after six years, the last time they were finalists (1-3 with Sevilla in Basel), but they have won the competition three times (including the UEFA Cup), most recently in 2001 ( with six more trophies to their credit Champions Leagues, four European Super Cups and the Club World Cup).

Liverpool only finished 5th in the last Premier League draw, missing out on the Champions League, where they played for six consecutive seasons, winning the trophy once and losing two more finals.

In this championship, Jurgen Klopp’s team is in 3rd place with 13 points after five matches, two points behind leaders Manchester City, and in the last stage of the championship they won at Wolverhampton with 3-1.

This summer they brought in Dominik Soboschlaj from RB Leipzig for €70m, Alexis McAllister from Brighton for €42m, Watara Endo from Stuttgart for €19m and Ryan Gravenberch from Bayern Munich for €40m, but Fabinho, Roberto Firmino, Naby Pischli Keita, Jordan Henderson, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and James Milner.

Superbet offers odds of 1.22 on the PsF2 prediction: the visitors lead at half-time or dominate at the end of the match LASK Linz – Liverpool.

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