LASK Linz 3-6 Liverpool: Barcola hat-trick buries the hosts
AI-written review based on match data · How we make it
Key numbers
- 6 goals, Liverpool's most in eight matches this season
- Goals at 22', 24' and 37' made it 0-3 at half-time
- Dibango set up all three LASK Linz goals
Three first-half goals shaped the night
Liverpool had a three-goal cushion before half-time. Ronald Araújo opened the scoring in the 22nd minute, and that goal was worth +0.6 FN xPts to Liverpool while costing LASK Linz −0.6, the largest combined change of the match. Bradley Barcola added two more before the interval.
Well above Liverpool's season norm
Liverpool's six goals were the most in eight matches this season, and shots on target and corners also reached season highs in that sample. The changes to the starting XI paid off at full-back, where Jeremie Frimpong and Kostas Tsimikas combined for four assists. With only eight matches to compare, it is an outlier rather than an established pattern.
Volume rather than quality
Liverpool outperformed their xG of 3.36 by 2.64, and they did it with 26 shots at a modest xG per shot, lower than LASK Linz's. That suggests a side winning through high volume and sharp finishing rather than through a stream of clear-cut chances. Barcola and Frimpong were the main beneficiaries in front of goal.
Dibango's assists fuelled a late rally
LASK Linz pulled three back through Robert Ljubičić in the 63rd minute and Florian Flecker in the 74th and 77th, all set up by Yvan Dibango, one of the hosts' new starters. He created five chances in all. It came too late, though: Liverpool were already four clear before the first of them.
FN MOM
Highest FN Score · our own pick by a published formula, not the official Player of the Match
Bradley Barcola 9.4Dominant
Three goals from five shots, four on target, gave him the biggest attacking return on the pitch.
Barcola's goals in the 24th and 37th minutes put Liverpool 3-0 up before half-time, which meant LASK Linz were chasing the match from early on. He struck again in the 66th minute, three minutes after the hosts had made it 1-4. He also completed five of 10 dribbles and won five of 11 duels.
Game state
0-10-20-30-41-41-51-62-63-6
Lask Linz ahead 0 min · level 22 min · Liverpool ahead 68 min
FN xPts — what each moment was worth
How much each moment changed that team's expected points (win 3, draw 1). A goal's value is credited 70% to the scorer and 30% to the assist. The value next to a team code is what the same moment did to the other side's expected points; the decisive moment is the one with the largest combined change for both teams.
22'
Ronald Araújo
Goal · scorer +0.4 · assist Kostas Tsimikas +0.2 · LSK −0.6
+0.6
24'
Bradley Barcola
Goal · scorer +0.3 · assist Lewis Koumas +0.1 · LSK −0.3
+0.4
37'
Bradley Barcola
Goal · assist Florian Wirtz · LSK −0.1
+0.2
51'
Jeremie Frimpong
Goal · assist Kostas Tsimikas · LSK 0.0
0.0
63'
Robert Ljubičić
Goal · assist Yvan Dibango · LIV 0.0
0.0
66'
Bradley Barcola
Goal · assist Jeremie Frimpong · LSK 0.0
0.0
72'
Lewis Koumas
Goal · assist Jeremie Frimpong · LSK 0.0
0.0
74'
Florian Flecker
Goal · assist Yvan Dibango · LIV 0.0
0.0
77'
Florian Flecker
Goal · assist Yvan Dibango · LIV 0.0
0.0
Lask Linz
Expected (no record yet, starting estimate) 1.1Own moments 0.0Opponent moments −1.0Time effect −0.1→ League points won 0
Liverpool
Expected (last two seasons) 1.7Own moments +1.2Opponent moments 0.0Time effect +0.1→ League points won 3
Expected points don't add up to a fixed total (a draw is 1 + 1), so an opponent's moment isn't simply the mirror of your loss. "Time effect" is the change as the clock runs down on a lead or a chase, and isn't credited to any player.
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Match stats
Lask LinzLiverpool
2.06Expected goals (xG)3.36
Compared with usual
Liverpool
8 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 6 | 1.5 | high |
| Conceded | 3 | 1.1 | |
| xG | 3.36 | 1.6 | |
| xG against | 2.06 | 1.2 | |
| Shots | 26 | 14.4 | |
| On target | 9 | 5 | high |
| Shots faced | 12 | 12.4 | |
| xG per shot | 0.13 | 0.1 | |
| Possession | 64% | 53.8% | |
| Passes | 576 | 457.1 | |
| Corners | 11 | 4.6 | high |
| Fouls | 4 | 13.8 | low |
Timeline
- 22'
Goal
Ronald Araújo competition goal #1 assist Kostas Tsimikas
- 24'
Goal
Bradley Barcola competition goal #1 assist Lewis Koumas
- 37'
Goal
Bradley Barcola competition goal #2 assist Florian Wirtz
- 45'
Sub
Kasper Jørgensen → Florian Flecker
- 51'
Goal
Jeremie Frimpong competition goal #1 assist Kostas Tsimikas
- 62'
Sub
Jérémy Jacquet → Virgil van Dijk
- 62'
Sub
Ronald Araújo → Joe Gomez
- 62'
Sub
Melayro Bogarde → Robert Ljubičić
- 63'
Goal
Robert Ljubičić assist Yvan Dibango
- 66'
Goal
Bradley Barcola competition goal #3 assist Jeremie Frimpong
- 71'
Sub
S. Adeniran → Saša Kalajdžić
- 71'
Sub
Alessandro Schöpf → Daniel Elfadli
- 72'
Goal
Lewis Koumas competition goal #1 assist Jeremie Frimpong
- 73'
Sub
Bradley Barcola → Víctor Muñoz
- 74'
Goal
Florian Flecker assist Yvan Dibango
- 77'
Goal
Florian Flecker assist Yvan Dibango
- 80'
Yellow
Daniel Elfadli
- 82'
Sub
Christoph Lang → Nael Kane
- 85'
Sub
Trey Nyoni → Alexis Mac Allister
- 85'
Sub
Rio Ngumoha → Luke Chambers
Category leaders
- Key passesKostas Tsimikas6
- Duels wonRio Ngumoha8/12
- DribblesRio Ngumoha6/8
- Defensive actionsKrystof Daněk5
- ShotsFlorian Wirtz6 (on target 2)
- Fouls wonKostas Tsimikas3
#Bradley Barcola#Liverpool#LASK Linz#Champions League#Jeremie Frimpong#Kostas Tsimikas
This review was written by AI from match data (API-Football). FN Score and FN xPts are calculated by Fulltime Note using a published formula.