Bradley Barcola wasn't the only Liverpool player to score a hat-trick against LASK on Wednesday.

With Liverpool's under-19s two goals down to LASK's youngsters in the Uefa Youth League, skipper Will Wright led from the front and scored his first hat-trick for the club as they came from behind to win 4-2 in Austria.

The 18-year-old now has nine goals in eight games this season at academy level, and he hopes that such numbers won't go unnoticed by Andoni Iraola.

"I have to just keeping working hard like Lewis [Koumas] has, and some of the other lads like Chambo [Luke Chambers] and James McConnell," said Wright.

"They keep working hard and are with them every day, then they come back and you ask 'what's it like?' and they say everyone works hard.

"That's the level us under-21's have to aim for and hopefully I can make my debut this season."

On whether his hat-trick sent a message to the first team, Wright added: "I hope so, and if the opportunity comes, I hope I can take it like all the other lads who have gone over to the first team as well.

"I just need to keep progressing. I'm obviously a goalscorer but I want to be a more complete player as well, and wearing the armband, I need to be vocal on the pitch also. It's about keeping contributing.

"My motivation is purely to get into the first team, to get in and around training and learn off some of the likes of [Alexander] Isak and Hugo [Ekitike]."

The teenager, who joined from Salford in 2025, praised his team-mates after Liverpool scored four goals in 32 second-half minutes to complete a remarkable comeback.

"My second goal, the cross lands right on my head so it's an easy finish, but the quality of the cross from Finn [Inglethorpe] is there," he said.

"And the first one, what a ball from Luca [Eden] and what a player as well, he's just 15 and what a player. We have so much quality in the group.

"Not just to me, but the whole [academy] squad, it's about energy and pressing. Jurgen [Klopp] had that philosophy of pressing at the right moments. The gaffer is the exact same as that and he loves an energetic side.

"In pre-season, it was a new system and I took a bit of time to adjust to it. But watching the games and speaking to a few of the lads as well, you get to grips with it. It gives you more tools to do well in the first team."

Rob Page, Liverpool's U21s head coach, added: "He [Wright] is in a good place. He is scoring, he takes responsibility and his work-rate is phenomenal.

"He's very appealing to the eye, to our gaffer, and to managers out there. The way he represents the football club, it's quite apt at the minute that he's captain in this competition.

"You see Koumas with the first team and the energy he brings to the front line, that's from being brought up in the academy, and Will has a similar identity.

"If you add his ability to all that, then you have the makings of a very good player."