Liverpool will be looking to bounce back from Sunday's disappointing 3-0 defeat to Manchester City when they travel to Austria to face LASK in the Champions League on Wednesday evening.

Andoni Iraola lost his unbeaten start to the campaign at Liverpool as Ryan Gravenberch's red card changed the game, with City scoring all three of their goals after the Dutchman's red card in the 62nd minute.

The Netherlands international had found starts hard to come by under the Spaniard this term and was one of the Reds' best players on the afternoon, but his dismissal proved costly as Enzo Maresca's men maintained their 100% start to the season despite the cloud hanging over them.

Liverpool will now be determined to pick up three points when they face LASK, who knocked Celtic out of the qualifying stages in dramatic circumstances, before they travel to fourth-placed Brentford on Saturday.

Gravenberch isn't the only Liverpool player who is struggling this term, with a lot of pressure on the shoulders of both Florian Wirtz and Bradley Barcola.

The £115m+ duo needed to step up with Alexander Isak and Cody Gakpo absent against City due to injury, but both players were pretty anonymous at Anfield, with Lewis Koumas and Victor Munoz outshining them.

Barcola has now gone 10 matches this season for club and country without providing a goal or assist, while Wirtz has one assist in seven appearances for the Reds this term.

That clearly isn't good enough for two players who cost as much as they did and while there will be some understanding around Barcola given he may need some time to bed into Liverpool and the Premier League following his summer move, Wirtz is running out of excuses.

Still, there is a bigger flop than the duo currently at Anfield who isn't doing enough to show he deserves to be starting matches.

Frimpong Fighting to Save Liverpool Career

It was never going to be an easy task to replace Trent Alexander-Arnold at Anfield following his departure to Real Madrid in the summer of 2025.

Liverpool signed Jeremie Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen but even when he joined, there were question marks over his defensive abilities and whether he was actually more suited to playing further forward on the right-hand side.

The 25-year-old's start to his career on Merseyside didn't get off to the best of starts when he was suffering from a hamstring injury in the opening weeks of last season, and things haven't improved since.

The Dutchman made 35 appearances in all competitions for the Reds last term, but that only included 12 Premier League stats as Arne Slot sometimes preferred to play Dominik Szoboszlai there out of position instead of starting Frimpong.

It has been a similar story this term under Iraola, despite the fact he started their opening two Premier League matches against Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest.

They conceded two goals in each fixture and since then the former Bournemouth boss has preferred to play natural centre-back Ronald Araujo there instead, with Frimpong playing just 33 minutes of the club's last four top flight games.

The Netherlands international's only other start came against Tottenham in the EFL Cup, but he isn't showing that he is worthy of a spot in the starting XI as things stand.

The £30m man needs to show a lot more and quickly if he wants to salvage a Liverpool career that is unquestionably floundering, especially with another right-back Conor Bradley on his way back to fitness after injury.

Following Sunday's disappointment and with the club needing a result, Iraola needs to stick with Araujo again in the Champions League on Wednesday night.