Frankfurt vs Liverpool live: Latest score and goal updates in Champions League clash

1 min: Frankfurt look to start quickly as they move down the right and win a corner.

Liverpool’s defending of set pieces has had something to be desired as of late – but they deal with this one.

We are underway in Frankfurt! It’s absolutely buzzing inside the stadium.

Virgil van Dijk leads out Liverpool, Robin Koch leads out Frankfurt.

Deutsche Bank Park is ready. This has the capacity for goals, goals, goals.

We’re T-minus 10 minutes until kick off at Deutsche Bank Park!

With Liverpool on the verge of a low that hasn’t been reached in over 70 years, can Arne Slot’s side stop the rut? Or will Frankfurt be the fifth side to serve the Premier League champions defeat?

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Liverpool’s vulnerable position is uncharted territory for Dominik Szoboszlai, who said the players had discussions among themselves about how to turn around a season which began with seven successive wins.

“We have to stick together. We had a lot of meetings, we spoke with each other and the most important thing is we stay together when it is a hard time,” said the Hungary captain.

“This will turn. If you work hard and keep going the luck will go on your side.

“We have to take the three points for sure but most important we have to show the character we have, what Liverpool can do and what we are able to do.”

“They can play together, they showed it against Manchester United – although that was in the second half,” he said. “It just means our midfield will be structured a little differently.

“What we need to try again today is create as much chances as we did the last few weeks. Then it is very helpful that we have two players in the team who can score a goal.”

Liverpool are currently on a four-game losing streak:

• Crystal Palace 2-1 Liverpool
• Galatasaray 1-0 Liverpool
• Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
• Liverpool 1-2 Manchester United

Defeat tonight would be the first time they have lost five on the trot since 1953.

An unenviable record and a new low may just await Arne Slot’s side…

Jamie Carragher has issued a warning to Florian Wirtz after the German’s inauspicious start to life in the Premier League by claiming that great players ‘hit the ground running’ when they arrive in England.

“How long do you give foreign players when they first come to the league? You don’t write the first year off but you say the second year they’ll improve and get better,” Carragher explained on Sky Sports following Liverpool’s loss to Man United.

“But, if I’m being honest, if I think of the great foreign signings – Sami Hyppia, Mo Salah, Sadio Mane, Luis Suarez, Didi Hamann – they all hit the ground running.

“I can’t think of many, who had an average, poor start – I’m not talking seven games by the way but if you’re getting to Christmas and January and being like ‘oh’. History doesn’t tell me that foreign signings coming into England take a year.”

Ryan Gravenberch was not included in the travelling squad for tonight’s Liverpool game due to an ankle injury.

“Yeah, I had to take him off during the weekend because he limped a little bit, as we could all see. So, unfortunately, he’s not ready to play,” Arne Slot confirmed.

“Ryan is not available for the Frankfurt game, hopefully he will be available at the weekend. But it’s an ankle injury, we have to wait and see, give him a bit of time and see where he is when we come back from Frankfurt.”