Champions League Matchday 2: LASK vs Liverpool facts

LASK and Liverpool were on opposing ends of one-goal margins in their league phase openers with the Austrian champions looking to bounce back from a narrow defeat on Matchday 2, when their English visitors will be out to make it two wins from two in this season's UEFA Champions League.

Previous meetings

The teams' only previous fixtures came in the 2023/24 UEFA Europa League group stage, Liverpool winning 3-1 in Austria on Matchday 1 – Florian Flecker scoring LASK's consolation – and 4-0 at Anfield on Matchday 5, Cody Gakpo getting two goals.

That made LASK's record in their six games against English opponents D1 L5; at home it is D1 L2 with four goals scored and 11 conceded.

Those games against LASK are also Liverpool's last fixtures versus Austrian opponents and made it eight wins in their ten fixtures (D1 L1). Their away record is W4 D1 with wins in the last four visits, three of them with a clean sheet.

Form guide

LASK

This is only LASK's third European Cup campaign. They lost 2-5 on aggregate against Górnik Zabrze in the 1965/66 preliminary round and beat Basel 5-2 on aggregate in the 2019/20 third qualifying round before going down 1-3 to Club Brugge in the play-off round (0-1 h, 1-2 a).

LASK are the fifth Austrian club to feature in the Champions League proper, after Salzburg, Sturm Graz, Rapid Wien and Austria Wien.

Liverpool

This is Liverpool's 18th Champions League campaign and a ninth in ten seasons; they have reached the final five times, lifting the trophy in 2005 and at Atleti's Metropolitano stadium in 2019.

The Merseysiders were third in last season's league phase (W6 L2), beating Galatasaray 4-1 on aggregate in the round of 16 before going out to eventual champions Paris Saint-Germain in the last eight (0-4) – the second successive season they had been eliminated by the French side.

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Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai faced LASK five times with Salzburg, winning four and losing once. In the first three of those games, he contributed two goals and four assists.

Beaten 1-0 at AEK Athens on Matchday 1, LASK reached this stage for the first time with a remarkable comeback victory against Celtic in the play-off round(0-3 a, 5-1 h aet).

That second-leg success is LASK's only win in 13 European games (D4 L8).

LASK are also without a win in their last nine group stage/league phase fixtures in UEFA competition.

However, the Austrian club have lost only two of their last 16 home European matches (W7 D7).

Liverpool have won 19 of their last 22 Champions League group stage/league phase games (L3), beating Atlético de Madrid 2-1 at Anfield on Matchday 1.

The Merseysiders have also won their last three away league phase matches.

None of Liverpool's last 82 Champions League group stage/league phase matches have finished goalless, since a 0-0 draw at PSV Eindhoven on Matchday 1 in 2006/07.

Liverpool have finished in the top three of the league phase in each of the last two seasons, coming first in 2024/25 and third in 2025/26.