Liverpool player ratings, winners and losers vs Atletico Madrid as Van Dijk and one more excellent

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Against Atletico Madrid, Alexander Isak made his debut and Mohamed Salah impressed, with Virgil van Dijk the hero.

Inside six minutes, Liverpool had a two-goal lead and looked to be cruising.

Liverpool looked to be edging towards seeing the result out, before the Spaniard got his second, setting up Van Dijk to power home.



Winners

Robertson did reasonably well and staked a claim for the weekend's game with Everton, while this was Salah's best performance of the season to date.

Liverpool looked fluid and flowing in attack in the first half and didn't give much away in defense either.

Nothing can be decided at this stage of the group phase, but this was a good start for the Swede in a Liverpool jersey.

Losers

With the game at 2-2, no one would have really lost out here, though Liverpool made harder work of it in the second half than it looked like would be the case just a few minutes into the game.

Both teams still have another seven matches in which to pick up more points, and Diego Simeone's side didn't do too badly considering it was missing star man Julian Alvarez.

Making a first competitive start in 115 days, the Swede looked relatively sharp in the circumstances.

At 17, he was trusted to play 20 minutes or more off the bench in the second half