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Liverpool get their Europa League campaign underway on Thursday evening with a trip to Austria to take on LASK Linz, and they’ll be hoping to maintain a strong track record against clubs from the central European country. The Reds have faced Austrian opposition on eight previous occasions in Europe, with six wins, one draw and just one defeat to their name from those meetings.

Ahead of Thursday’s clash at the Raiffeisen Arena, in which Liverpool to this season’s purple third kit, we look at the club’s previous clashes against teams from Austria. Liverpool were still in the running for a fifth European Cup triumph in nine years when they met the Viennese outfit in the 1985 quarter-finals, with the Reds on the road for the first leg.



The Reds made light work of the second leg at Anfield, breezing to a 4-0 victory in the run-up to Christmas.



Two goals from Steven Gerrard at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadion clinched victory in Rafael Benitez’s first competitive game in charge of Liverpool.



Red Bull Salzburg (2019/20 Champions League group stage)