Eintracht Frankfurt 1-5 Liverpool: Champions League – as it happened

10.29pm BST Andy Hunter was at the Waldstadion tonight. Here’s his report. Thanks for reading this MBM. Related: Liverpool end losing run in style as Szoboszlai caps 5-1 fightback win in Frankfurt Related: Arne Slot left to ‘hope for the best’ after injured Isak forced off against Frankfurt Updated at 11.49pm BST 10.27pm BST Slot: Isak has groin problem Arne Slot talks to TNT Sports. “We needed to win … what we needed more was another performance that created a load of chances but also the players get their reward … and that’s what happened today … I saw a lot of similarities to our other games … the first chance they got was a goal … maybe their only chance … but it is easier to control a game when you are 3-1 up rather than 1-0 down … the main difference between this game and the four before was in most of them, the other team scored a set piece but now we were able to score two … [Hugo Ekitiké] has done well every time he plays … I saw players working really hard.” He also reports that Alexander Isak “had to go off at half-time because he felt his groin a little bit … that’s a pity … it’s such a difficult balance to find with a player who has missed three months … you bring him slowly … people argue to play him longer … now we play him for the second time in three days and he has to go off … let’s hope for the best.” 10.13pm BST Hugo Ekitiké, a study in mellow contentment, speaks to TNT Sports. “I had to [score] … it was a great feeling … something special to come back … I know everybody here … a win was important … also my first goal in the Champions League … I am really happy … I just kept cool, calm … I have so much respect for [Eintracht] … they made me the player I am now … I am just respectful and grateful for what they gave to me … I will keep the values they gave me all the time in the future … me and [Alexander Isak] can improve together … in time we need to work together and find a good association … the links will come and it will work … I feel good … I love my life … I hope to keep going … consistency … I am calm and just doing my thing.” 10.06pm BST Virgil van Dijk speaks to TNT Sports. “I don’t know if it’s a statement but it’s a win … something to build on … obviously we were all disappointed with losing games … that’s something you have to deal with as a group … stick together … ignore the outside noise … now we have to be ready for Brentford … we try to keep clean sheets … it’s about how you react … try to be better than the day before … don’t get dragged into all the negative things going around at the moment … for me it’s quite easy! … but I have been in the business longer than some others … we have the individual quality but we have to do it together to be successful.” 10.03pm BST Post-match postbag. “I think tonight proves Ekitiké is our best striker right now. I think Slot needs to stop feeling the weight of Isak’s transfer fee, although I do appreciate he is still searching for his new best formation to make all the signings work. But Isak has not had a full pre-season and Ekitiké just looks so sharp. This also feels like our best defensive line-up, I’ll admit I was questioning Robertson after last season but it is so much more reassuring to have him back on the left side. And can someone please clone Gravenbach so he can play every game?” – Phil Sawyer “Liverpool are playing in the old fashioned 4-4-2 formation. It works perfectly against the 3-4-3 we’ve had so many problems against. Masterful again by Slot. In the year of the long throw, watch 4-4-2 come back into fashion too” – Neil Waters “Mark Errett can rest assured that with this performance Liverpool are in the black not the red tonight. At least metaphorically speaking” – Justin Kavanagh 10.01pm BST When Rasmus Kristensen’s 26th-minute shot pinged off the post and nestled in Giorgi Mamardashvili’s net, a fifth defeat on the bounce for Liverpool was a live prospect. Bear in mind that hadn’t happened since 1953, so the weight of history was bearing down on Arne Slot and his men. But how Liverpool responded! A huge result that gets their Champions League campaign back on an even keel: having started the day in 17th place, they’re back in the top-ten comfort zone. A good evening for Hugo Ekitiké, Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo, Florian Wirtz and Liverpool’s under-fire central defenders … but perhaps not such a good one for the underwhelming Alexander Isak, or Mohamed Salah, whose decision-making and finishing during his brief cameo once again raised eyebrows. Fair to say Liverpool are still a work in progress, with big decisions to be made, but at least they’ve turned the corner tonight in style. Pos Team P GD Pts 1 PSG 3 10 9 2 Bayern Munich 3 10 9 3 Inter Milan 3 9 9 4 Arsenal 3 8 9 5 Real Madrid 3 7 9 6 Borussia Dortmund 3 5 7 7 Man City 3 4 7 8 Newcastle 3 6 6 9 Barcelona 3 5 6 10 Liverpool 3 4 6 11 Chelsea 3 3 6 12 Sporting 3 3 6 13 Qarabag FK 3 1 6 14 Galatasaray 3 -1 6 15 Tottenham Hotspur 3 1 5 16 PSV 3 2 4 17 Atalanta 3 -3 4 18 Marseille 3 2 3 19 Atletico Madrid 3 -1 3 20 Club Brugge 3 -2 3 21 Athletic Bilbao 3 -3 3 22 Eintracht Frankfurt 3 -4 3 23 Napoli 3 -5 3 24 Union Saint Gilloise 3 -6 3 25 Juventus 3 -1 2 26 Bodo/Glimt 3 -2 2 27 Monaco 3 -3 2 28 Slavia Prague 3 -3 2 29 AE Pafos 3 -4 2 30 Bayer Leverkusen 3 -5 2 31 Villarreal 3 -3 1 32 Copenhagen 3 -4 1 33 Olympiacos 3 -7 1 34 FC Kairat 3 -8 1 35 Benfica 3 -5 0 36 Ajax 3 -10 0 Updated at 10.02pm BST 9.55pm BST FULL TIME: Eintracht Frankfurt 1-5 Liverpool Liverpool snap their losing streak. But another streak continues: this is the third consecutive Champions League game involving Eintracht that’s ended 5-1! Updated at 10.32pm BST 9.52pm BST 90 min +1: Salah cuts in from the right and balloons over the bar. He’s desperate for a goal but not particularly doing himself any favours. Wirtz is certainly within his rights to have a word. Updated at 10.01pm BST 9.51pm BST 90 min: Salah is released into the box down the right. He’s got Wirtz in the middle, waiting to tap his first Liverpool goal home, but opts to shoot from a tight angle instead. Saved. Dreadful decision. Updated at 9.55pm BST 9.51pm BST 89 min: Szoboszlai, Chiesa and Wirtz combine crisply down the middle. Szoboszlai nearly tees up Salah to his right, but the ball clanks between his feet. 9.48pm BST 87 min: Mamardashvili batters long. Amenda misjudges the flight of the ball, allowing Chiesa to tear off with it down the left. Chiesa looks for Salah in the middle, but can’t quite get the cross right. 9.47pm BST 86 min: A sense now that both teams would be more than happy to call it a day, for wildly different reasons. Updated at 9.47pm BST 9.45pm BST 84 min: Theate pings a pass down the left touchline for Chaibi, who sails away from the flailing Szoboszlai and comes infield, whip-curling a shot across Mamardashvili and inches wide of the bottom right. The keeper probably had that covered, but it was mighty close, and you wouldn’t bet the farm on that being so. 9.44pm BST 83 min: Now it’s Eintracht’s turn for a little keep-ball, but Liverpool don’t mind too much. The home fans entertain themselves with a rendition of Hey Jude. 9.42pm BST 81 min: Liverpool run the clock down with some keep-ball. 9.40pm BST 79 min: Liverpool stroke it around in the relaxed, job-done fashion. “Hands across the interweb to Mark Errett,” writes Phil Sawyer, “red/green colour deficiency the bane of my life supporting the Mighty perhaps Reds.” 9.39pm BST 77 min: Salah has already put himself in a couple of promising positions, nearly teeing up Mac Allister with a cross from the right, then prodding a weak shot goalwards from the inside-left channel, the flag then going up for offside. Updated at 9.57pm BST 9.38pm BST 76 min: Skhiri comes on for Knauff. “What’s the German for ‘Doctor Eintracht’?” wonders Tim Woods. 9.36pm BST 75 min: With Liverpool home and hosed, they can wrap some people up in cotton wool – off come Konate, Gakpo and Ekitike – and hope to play some others back into form. On come Salah, Mac Allister and Gomez. 9.34pm BST 73 min: Chiesa wedges a lovely ball down the left and nearly releases Gakpo into the area. Only some very steely, determined defending from Koch stops Gakpo getting a shot away. 9.33pm BST 72 min: Eintracht’s best hope now is for Liverpool to declare. “I never thought I’d see a kit clash worse than Wales vs Ireland in the Six Nations,” writes Ryan Price. “But this is horrendous, utterly confusing and unwatchable!” 9.31pm BST GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 1-5 Liverpool (Szoboszlai 70) Liverpool ping the ball this way and that. Patient probing. Wirtz tees up Szoboszlai, 25 yards out. He takes a touch to the right, before fizzing a low shot across Zetterer and into the bottom right. What a finish! Updated at 9.43pm BST 9.30pm BST 68 min: Liverpool are rampant. Chiesa releases Szoboszlai into the box down the right. Szoboszlai could shoot, but looks for Ekitike in the middle instead. Koch breaks up the move, just in time. This could get messy for the hosts. 9.28pm BST 67 min: Just before the goal, Eintracht had made another double change, replacing Doan and Götze with Burkardt and Uzun. 9.28pm BST GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 1-4 Liverpool (Gakpo 66) Szoboszlai rolls a pass down the right for Wirtz, who delivers a sitter into the centre for Gakpo, who opens his body and slams into the bottom left. Simple as that. Two perfectly weighted passes and bang. Updated at 9.33pm BST 9.26pm BST 65 min: Bradley has a whack from the right-hand edge of the D. The keeper turns the ball onto the right-hand post and away. Liverpool searching for a fourth. 9.24pm BST 63 min: Gakpo plays Ekitike in down the left with a forensic pass. Ekitike has options in the middle, but tries to beat Zetterer from a tight angle. The keeper wins the battle. Not a good decision. 9.23pm BST 61 min: Szoboszlai rolls a fine pass down the inside-right channel to release Wirtz, who runs past the ball, ruining the chance. But Liverpool recycle possession, and Wirtz comes again down the right, cutting back from the byline for Szoboszlai, who swipes a weak shot across the face of goal and wide left. 9.20pm BST 59 min: Frankfurt make their first changes of the night. Kristensen and Bahoya are replaced by Burkardt and Collins. 9.19pm BST 58 min: Götze channels his early 2010s self by rolling a pass down the right to release Doan, who wins a corner off Szoboszlai. The set piece is worked back to Theate, who balloons a long-range shot high and wide. 9.17pm BST 56 min: Eintracht deal with this one pretty well, and soon enough the ball’s back at the feet of Mamardashvili. 9.16pm BST 55 min: Wirtz fancies the resulting free kick, just to the left of the D. With little backlift, he whips it up and over the wall, then back down towards the top-left corner. Zetterer is behind it all the way, and palms behind for a corner, which Gakpo will take. 9.15pm BST 54 min: Eintracht can’t keep hold of the ball and the crowd, so boisterous earlier on, has gone very quiet. And there’s more frustration as Amenda allows Gakpo to get goalside down the inside-left channel. He wrestles his man to the ground and goes into the book. “On colour-blindness, the NFL have it right,” begins Andy Flintoff. “One team is always in white with the other in colours, but the choice between white and colour is with the home team. It shouldn’t be beyond Uefa to mandate that in European competitions.” 9.13pm BST 52 min: Doan cynically yanks back the in-flight Jones and goes into the book. 9.13pm BST 51 min: Jones rolls a pass down the right. Ekitike spins and would be clear on goal but slips over. Eintracht then gift Liverpool another corner, Larsson with a loose backpass. Nothing comes of this one, but the hosts can’t keep inviting pressure like this. That opening goal feels like an awfully long time ago. 9.11pm BST 49 min: The corner comes in. Ekitike’s header is blocked. Wirtz steers a header back into the box down the inside-right channel. Chiesa swivels and whips an overhead kick inches wide of the left-hand post. Had that been on target, it was number four, because Zetterer was out of position. What an introduction that would have been! 9.09pm BST 48 min: Szoboszlai wins the ball out on the right and combines crisply with Wirtz, forcing Knauff into the concession of another corner. Szoboszlai to take. 9.08pm BST 47 min: Liverpool are instantly on the front foot again. Robertson whips a cross in from the left, looking for Chiesa. Zetterer reads the danger, nipping in ahead of the substitute to punch confidently clear. 9.06pm BST Liverpool get the second half underway. They’ve made a change, sending on Chiesa in place of Isak. Whether that’s fitness-related or a tactical decision nobody’s sure. 9.04pm BST The following Half-time Postbag is brought to you in living color on NBC Guardian Sport. “These dark red Liverpool kits are playing havoc with my red/green colour blindness. They both look black to me. Who do I put a complaint in to at Uefa?!” – Mark Errett “This has to be one of the worst kit clash for the colourblind (that’s one in 12 males, one in 50 females). It’s completely unwatchable. Dark short and dark shorts vs dark shorts and dark shorts! There are supposed to Uefa rules to stop this happening, and yet it keeps on happening, time and time again. It’s not that hard to sort out, FFS. On average there will be around two to three players on the pitch who will struggle to identify team mates correctly in their peripheral vision” – Pat O’Brien Yes, this does seem a totally avoidable problem. The FA’s Colour Blindness In Football document picks black v red as one of the combinations that causes the greatest problem for colour-blind people. The other most troublesome combos are: red v green v orange; bright green v yellow; white v pastel colours; and blue v deep purple or pink. Flick further through the pamphlet, and one of the combos listed under Best Practice is white v black. Liverpool’s second kit this season is technically ecru, a very light brown, but it would surely be close enough to white to make a huge difference to colour-blind viewers this evening. 8.51pm BST HALF TIME: Eintracht Frankfurt 1-3 Liverpool A selection of results involving Eintracht so far this season: 5-0, 4-1, 5-1, 3-4, 6-4, 1-5. Feels like one way or another, we’re heading for something similar tonight. 8.47pm BST 45 min +2: For a second, it looks as though Bradley is going to get past Gotze down the right, and deliver a cross for Isak in the middle. But he over-elaborates, allowing Theate to come across and help his pal. The pair team up to hustle Bradley off the ball. All of a sudden, Eintracht desperately need to hear the half-time whistle. 8.46pm BST 45 min: There will be four additional first-half minutes. 8.45pm BST GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 1-3 Liverpool (Konate 44) … and Konate, unmarked, six yards out, slams a header that Zetterer simply has no time to react to. Two corners, two headers, simple as that. Updated at 9.02pm BST 8.44pm BST 44 min: Isak tries to release Wirtz with a scooped pass down the right. Larsson should cushion a header back to his keeper, but panics and concedes a corner instead. Szoboszlai to take. 8.43pm BST 43 min: Koch is fine to continue. 8.42pm BST 42 min: Koch is down after being accidentally caught by Konate. On comes the physio. 8.41pm BST 40 min: Doan dribbles down the right and passes low through the box for Bahoya, who is free on the penalty spot! Or so he thinks. As he shapes a sidefooted shot towards the bottom left, Bradley appears from nowhere to slide-block. Great play all round. There is no way whatsoever this game is going to end 1-2. Both defences are an on-the-edge shambles. 8.39pm BST GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 1-2 Liverpool (van Dijk 39) … and headed home from close range by Van Dijk! Gakpo’s whippy delivery to the near post was on the money, and Van Dijk beat Koch all ends up to power goalwards from close range. What a turnaround! Updated at 8.48pm BST 8.38pm BST 38 min: Liverpool’s tails are up now. They win a couple of corners in quick succession. The second, coming in from the left, will be delivered by Gakpo. 8.37pm BST 36 min: The former Eintracht player Ekitike doesn’t celebrate the goal. But it was beautifully taken. 8.36pm BST GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 1-1 Liverpool (Ekitike 35) Doan and Brown combine cutely down the left but the latter’s pullback is nowhere near anyone in a black top. Robertson pings the ball immediately upfield, and Ekitike is clear on goal! Simple as that, because Eintracht had committed everyone upfield. He cuts across Koch, the only man anywhere near him, ensuring no challenge can be made, and drives a confident low shot under Zetterer and in! Updated at 8.44pm BST 8.34pm BST 33 min: This is better from Liverpool, as Gakpo delivers an inswinger from a deep position on the left. Bradley gets in ahead of Brown, and should score from six yards, but his downward header is too close to Zetterer, who is able to parry around the post for a corner, from which nothing comes. 8.32pm BST 31 min: We’re back to Liverpool dominating possession, but doing nothing in the final third. A cross comes in from the left, and Ekitike claims a penalty for handball when the ball rears up near Koch, but the referee immediately waves away the appeal. 8.30pm BST 29 min: Robertson – whose legs Kristensen’s shot whistled through – tries to find Ekitike with a low cross from the left. He’s forced to settle for a corner. Before it can be taken, Szoboszlai is given the what-for by the referee for his over-eager positioning. Then the set piece is dealt with easily by the hosts. 8.28pm BST 28 min: That was a lovely sweeping team goal. Liverpool concede first yet again. That’s five matches in a row now. 8.27pm BST GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 Liverpool (Kristensen 26) Eintracht’s patience pays off! Having sat back soaking up pressure for a few minutes, Brown steals the ball off Wirtz and sets a pitch-length passing move in motion. Bahoya and Gotze shuttle the ball up the left wing and across to the right, where Kristensen enters the box and whistles a low shot across Mamardashvili, off the base of the left-hand post, and in! Updated at 8.36pm BST 8.25pm BST 25 min: It’s all Liverpool in terms of possession and territory, but the final ball is lacking, so it’s a bit of a stand-off right now. 8.24pm BST 23 min: The rain’s coming down in Frankfurt. It’s not expected to stop. 8.22pm BST 22 min: Robertson dinks a ball around the corner for Gakpo, who advances down the left and wins a corner he takes himself. The ball comes in and the whistle goes when Koch trips over his own man. 8.20pm BST 20 min: Gakpo floats in a cross from the left. Easy pickings for Zetterer. 8.19pm BST 19 min: Frimpong limps off, a picture of misery, and is replaced by Bradley. 8.18pm BST 18 min: Frimpong, who recently turned on the jets in an unsuccessful attempt to buzz his way past Brown, goes down with nobody around him. Looks as though his hamstring has gone again. He wears the look of a man who knows the jig is up. 8.17pm BST 17 min: Kristensen looks for Knauff down the right, but Van Dijk is wise to the run this time, and comes over to snuff it out. 8.16pm BST 15 min: Jones is buzzing around a lot. He nearly releases Isak down the left with a sliderule pass, but the striker is forced to turn tail as the hosts just about keep their shape. 8.13pm BST 13 min: Liverpool have rediscovered a little of their poise, and have started to assert themselves on the game. After a strong start by Eintracht, it’s now the visitors who are hogging the ball. 8.12pm BST 11 min: Brown is fine to continue. The atmosphere in the Waldstadion is rocking. 8.11pm BST 10 min: The corner leads to nothing … although Brown takes an elbow in the ear from his own man Koch, and will require some treatment. 8.10pm BST 9 min: Gakpo slips a pass for Isak down the inside-right. Isak powers a low shot towards the bottom-right corner, forcing Zetterer to turn around the post. Szoboszlai to take the corner. 8.09pm BST 8 min: … and then up the other end, Szoboszlai wedges Isak free down the inside right! Isak tries to deftly dink over Zetterer, but the keeper spreads and blocks. The early signs suggest goalfest. 8.08pm BST 7 min: Jones goes in for a 50-50 in the centre circle, but only succeeds in deflecting the ball down the Eintracht inside-right channel, releasing Bahoya on goal! Mamardashvili parries a low drive. Then the flag goes up for offside. Had Bahoya scored, VAR might have had something to say about that offside decision, seeing the ball came off Jones earlier in the move. Updated at 8.19pm BST 8.06pm BST 6 min: … so having said that, they address it with some sterile domination in the midfield. Instantly calmer. Jones then advances down the left and curls infield, but Isak can’t get on the end of the high cross. Zetterer in the Eintracht goal claims. 8.05pm BST 5 min: Frimpong knocks Bahoya to the ground, just to the left of the Liverpool D. He’s fortunate the referee looks kindly on the challenge and waves play on. That should have been a free kick in a dangerous position. Liverpool already look what they are: a team devoid of confidence. 8.04pm BST 3 min: Knauff barrels down the right again, forcing Konate to come across and do some sterling work. The ball eventually goes out for a goal kick, but the hosts have wasted no time in flinging the gauntlet down. 8.02pm BST 1 min: Konate heads the corner clear easily. What a start that would have been, especially in the context of how Manchester United did a number on Liverpool within 60 seconds last weekend. 8.02pm BST 20 secs: … and so Knauff immediately races down the right and wins a corner off Van Dijk! 8.01pm BST To the strains of a ballad set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, the hosts get the ball rolling. Eintracht have left out their leading scorers, Jonathan Burkardt and Can Uzun, for Dino Toppmöller’s aforementioned pacy duo of Jean-Matteo Bahoya and Ansgar Knauff. Let’s see how that pans out, then. 7.58pm BST The teams are out! Eintracht wear black tops with white pinstripe, a special kit for Europe, while Liverpool are in their storied red. A big black-and-white-striped tifo flutters across one end of the Waldstadion, which is a cauldron of glorious noise. We’ll be off once Zadok the Priest gets his usual aural working-over. Updated at 8.05pm BST 7.50pm BST Eintracht coach Dino Toppmöller talks to TNT Sports. “The stadium is packed … everyone is looking forward to this game … the champions of England … a big club … the whole group of Liverpool is full of amazing players … we have to be very good in collective defending … transitions … a big challenge … we feel ready … we need to be good in counter-attacks so we put [Jean-Matteo] Bahoya and [Ansgar] Knauff up front because they have incredible speed.” 7.45pm BST Eintracht Frankfurt have had mixed success against British clubs. They were knocked out of last year’s Europa League by Spurs in the quarter-finals, but beat West Ham in the semis three seasons previously en route to winning the trophy. (Oliver Glasner the mastermind behind that triumph. Whatever happened to him?) Eintracht’s forays into Scotland have also produced varied results: a 12-4 aggregate win over Rangers in the 1960 European Cup semis, that 7-3 loss to Real Madrid at Hampden Park in the subsequent final, and an astonishing capitulation in Ayrshire four years later. That’s detailed in this old Joy of Six. Go on, there’s just enough time between now and kick-off. We’ll see you back here in a few minutes. Related: The Joy of Six: great football comebacks | Scott Murray 7.24pm BST Back to that run of five consecutive defeats in 1953. There are some similarities to Liverpool’s current sticky patch: the concession of last-minute winners (Palace’s Eddie Nketiah and Chelsea’s Estêvão now, Peter Broadbent for Wolves back then); unlucky woodwork-based shenanigans (Cody Gakpo hitting the frame three times against United, Tottenham’s Charlie Withers heading against his own post); the opposition scoring worldies (Moisés Caicedo’s long-range ping into the top left, Alf Ramsey netting from 45 yards at White Hart Lane). All of which is a long-winded way of pointing out that when things aren’t going well, it never rains but it pours. 7.15pm BST Arne Slot talks to TNT Sports. “We were here in time to have proper sleep [after last night’s plane delay] … not ideal but not something to complain about … every time I select a team it is always difficult because I have so many good players … I liked the way [the subs against United] added to to the game in the second half … created a lot of chances … also Ryan [Gravenberch] is out so we have to restructure our midfield … so we decided to start like this … I have players to start and to impact the game coming off the bench … we need to create chances … we are hoping and expecting Jeremie [Frimpong] to create something for [Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike] … [Cody] Gakpo to do the same on the left … with Florian Wirtz’s creativity in and around our two number nines … where we usually play with one six, now we play with Curtis [Jones] and Dom [Szoboszlai] … if you are in a situation like we are, nine out of ten is not enough, you have to be ten out of ten.” 6.53pm BST Arne Slot finally ditches the starting XI sent out to face both Chelsea and Manchester United in Liverpool’s two previous matches. He’s made five changes after the 2-1 defeat to United at Anfield on Sunday. Mohamed Salah dropping to the bench is one piece of big news; the return to the starting line-up of Florian Wirtz is another. Hugo Ekitike, Curtis Jones and Jeremie Frimpong, all of whom, along with Wirtz, added energy to Liverpool’s play when coming on against United, are also back in, as is Andy Robertson; Milos Kerkez, Conor Bradley and the out-of-sorts Alexis Mac Allister drop to the bench alongside Salah, while Ryan Gravenberch is at home having picked up an ankle problem against United. 6.45pm BST The teams: Salah benched Eintracht Frankfurt: Zetterer, Kristensen, Amenda, Koch, Theate, Gotze, Larsson, Knauff, Doan, Brown, Bahoya.Subs: Grahl, Santos, Chaibi, Burkardt, Skhiri, Wahi, Dahoud, Chandler, Buta, Batshuayi, Collins, Uzun. Liverpool: Mamardashvili, Szoboszlai, Konate, van Dijk, Robertson, Frimpong, Wirtz, Jones, Gakpo, Ekitike, Isak.Subs: Woodman, Gomez, Endo, Kerkez, Mac Allister, Salah, Bradley, Chiesa, Ngumoha, Misciur. Referee: Francois Letexier (France). Updated at 7.04pm BST 6.30pm BST Preamble After losing four matches in a row, Liverpool aren’t quite heading towards uncharted waters. But the map they’re referring to is old, yellow and fraying at the sides. Here’s a sequence Don Welsh’s side put together in the autumn of 1953 … Bolton Wanderers 2-0 LiverpoolNewcastle United 4-0 LiverpoolLiverpool 1-5 Preston North EndWolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 LiverpoolTottenham Hotspur 2-1 Liverpool … and that’s the last time the Redmen (still wearing white shorts back then, mind) lost five on the bounce. They ended up being relegated from the old First Division in last place. Now, nobody’s seriously suggesting Liverpool are going down this season. But that sequence is a 72-year-old bit of history Arne Slot won’t fancy repeating. Plus his side need to get their Premier League and Champions League campaigns back on track quicksmart … though exactly what to expect tonight is anyone’s guess: Eintracht Frankfurt’s first two matches in this year’s competition both ended 5-1 – a home win over Galatasaray and an away defeat at Atletico Madrid – while Liverpool have beaten the team Eintracht lost to, and lost to the one Eintracht beat. So the rules of the playground are of no use whatsoever here. The unpredictable fun begins at 8pm UK time. It’s on!