Bradley Barcola’s clinical hat-trick inspires Liverpool to 6-3 rout of Lask

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A rampant performance in Austria, where Bradley Barcola opened his account for Andoni Iraola’s side with a hat-trick, maintained Liverpool’s 100% start to the Champions League and shattered Lask’s big night on the elite European stage.Iraola defended the majority of Liverpool’s display against City, the club’s £123m signing from Paris Saint-Germain and the effectiveness of Florian Wirtz before the return to European action. Barcola hit his stride in a Liverpool shirt with Ronald Araújo also scoring his first goal for the club on a restorative evening in Linz.The home end was full and in strong voice over an hour before kick-off as Lask supporters came to savour their club’s first home game in the Champions League proper.

He would find his range from the stand-in captain’s next set piece.Bradley Barcola slides the ball into the bottom corner to score his second in the first half. From the second corner, conceded by Alemão’s headed clearance, Araújo towered above his marker to head home Tsimikas’s delivery.Merely 96 seconds later it was 2-0 as Barcola also opened his account for Liverpool.

Wirtz picked out his fellow big-money signing’s run into the Lask area and Barcola rolled a cool finish beyond the exposed keeper.Lask could have been seriously embarrassed before half-time. Liverpool’s 19 attempts on goal were the most by an away side in the first half of a Champions League game since records began in 2003-04.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionLiverpool’s Lewis Koumas jumps for joy after opening his Champions League account.