Liverpool vs Bayern Munich LIVE: Latest score and updates after Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk goals
Liverpool 2-2 Bayern Munich
Half-time!
45+2 mins: Both teams have been decent in attack and both teams have looked shaky in defence. It’s a typical pre-season performance but that doesn’t mean that game hasn’t been interesting.
There are questions that Jurgen Klopp will want answering before the season starts. Alexis Mac Allister takes a knock on the jnee as the first half comes to a close.
Liverpool 2-2 Bayern Munich
44 mins: Liverpool lost their shape completely in that counter from Bayern. It was way too easy for Gnabry to carry the ball into the box and there was no urgency to get back and defend.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-2 Bayern Munich (Sane. 42’)⚽️
42 mins: Serge Gnabry is played into space on the left wing. He carries the ball into the box and slots a lovely pass over to Leroy Sane who turns it wonderfully into the back of the net.
Bayern are level.
Liverpool 2-1 Bayern Munich
39 mins: Joshua Kimmich floats another pass over the top and find Serge Gnabry who seems offside again. Liverpool get back quicker this time though and allow him to get into the box.
Joel Matip closes Gnabry down and knocks the ball out of play – off the attacker – to win Liverpool a goal kick.
Liverpool 2-1 Bayern Munich
36 mins: Cody Gakpo is knocked off the ball by Dayot Upamecano and Liverpool win a free kick inside Bayern’s final third. It’s a long way out for Trent Alexander-Arnold to think about shooting.
Instead he flicks the ball into the box for Gakpo but Upamecano nods it away and Bayern clear their lines.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-1 Bayern Munich (Gnabry, 33’)⚽️
33 mins: Liverpool concede!
A simple forward ball from Kim Ming-jae sees the defender knock it up to Serge Gnabry who’s drifting in from the left. He looks offside as the ball drops to him but the flag stays down.
Gnabry dips into the box, cuts inside of Joel Matip then slots it past Alisson to bring Bayern back into this game.
Liverpool 2-0 Bayern Munich
31 mins: Liverpool have a comfortable lead now. Bayern had just started to impsose themselves on the Reds but that goal will give Jurgen Klopp’s men some confidence.
It wasn’t the best defending from Bayern but as it’s pre-season they may not want to put their bodies on the line against a fully flying Virgil van Dijk.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Bayern Munich (Van Dijk, 28’)
28 mins: Liverpool score again!
They win themselves a corner that Andy Robertson comes across to take. He curls the ball into the middle of the box where Virgil van Dijk sprints onto the ball and powers a header into the box of the net.
Yann Sommer didn’t even move to stop that one.
Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich
27 mins: The corner ball is whipped into the middle of the box and gets cleared out by the Liverpool defenders. The ball comes out to Diogo Jota who storms across the halfway line.
He slides the ball up to Mo Salah who needs to sprint across the pitch to recover it. Alphonso Davies puts his head down and takes on Salah in a race with the Bayern defender pipping the Egyptian to the ball.
Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich
24 mins: Jamal Musiala darts past Trent Alexander-Arnold on the left wing but he runs the ball out of play. Bayern recover it quickly and slip Serge Gnabry into the left side of the box.
He lifts a cross into the middle and wins a corner.
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