Liverpool vs Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Europa League result and final score as Diogo Jota goal seals win
Liverpool 2-0 Union Saint-Gilloise: Jurgen Klopp’s side made it two wins from two in Group E thanks to Jota and Ryan Gravenberch goals at Anfield
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Your support makes all the difference.Ryan Gravenberch benefited from an error by Union Saint-Gilloise goalkeeper Anthony Moris to score his first goal for the club as Liverpool laboured to a 2-0 Europa League victory to maintain their 100 per cent record in Group E.
For all the attacking firepower at their disposal - and it was considerable with Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota boasting 248 goals between them - it was a 21-year-old former Ajax and Bayern Munich midfielder who had scored just nine in five years who popped up with the breakthrough at a crucial moment a minute before half-time.
That two of the front three were replaced at the interval was more down to a prepared plan rather than a reflection of their first-half contributions but if either had been anywhere close to their sharpest the game would have been out of sight before Gravenberch’s intervention.
Jota remained on for the whole game and scored the second with a breakaway in added time to ease any late nerves.
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Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
78 mins: Szoboszlai is on and it’s the goalscorer who makes way: a good night for Ryan Gravenberch in his young Liverpool career.
Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
75 mins: Union’s Alessio Castro-Montes takes an optimistic blast from distance and puts it into the stands. The Belgian leaders have lacked just a touch of quality so far tonight. Dominik Szoboszlai is about to come on - looks like Jurgen Klopp wants a final push of energy to get his side over the line here.
Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
71 mins: That Union chance has unsettled Liverpool slightly and the past five minute spell has been a scrappy one from both teams. Jarell Quansah has been asked to do some real defending tonight and has stood up the task well - another assured display so far from the 20-year-old centre-back.
Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
65 mins: Liverpool have been completely on top since half time but Union offer a little reminder of their threat as Mohamed Amoura flies forward. His cross is deflected behind by Konate. but that could have looped in. Liverpool’s lead remains a slender one.
Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
61 mins: SAVE! If the first was a gift, Gravenberch goes close to a spectacular second for Liverpool! The midfielder aims for the top corner with a curling shot from the left edge of the area, but Moris produces an excellent stop as he leaps back to keep it out.
Alexander-Arnold is indeed replaced. His final intervention was to deny a Union counter-attack. That was a good outing for the right back.
Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
60 mins: Joe Gomez is getting ready on the Liverpool bench - which is perhaps a sign that the plan was to only give Trent Alexander-Arnold an hour tonight.
Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
57 mins: Liverpool are doing well to keep the pressure up. The ball is fed wide to Curtis Jones and his deflected shot loops up and down, landing on the roof of the net. Union are able to clear following a succession of corners after Konate gives a foul away.
Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
51 mins: SAVE! Good stop this from Moris, who denies Jota’s header with a flying leap. Mac Allister picked out a quality cross to find Jota, whose header was too central and left Moris with a chance.
Liverpool 1-0 Union Saint-Gilloise LIVE: Latest Europa League updates
48 mins: CLOSE! Alisson gets away with this! The Liverpool goalkeeper spills a corner from the left but gets away with it as Quansah is on hand to hack away. Alisson is much more like himself as he comes out to claim the next corner.
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