UEFA Champions League, League Stage 2Lask LinzLAS 14/10/2026 17:45 LiverpoolLIV Venue Raiffeisen ArenaWhere to Watch LASK Linz v Liverpool: TV and online streamsLASK Linz v Liverpool kicks off at5:45pm BST (6:45pm local time) on Wednesday, October 14 at the Raiffeisen Arena in Linz. The match is live onTNT Sportsin the UK and can be streamed via the HBO Max app.If you live outside the UK, click theLINK HEREto find out where to watch it in your region.Preview for LASK Linz v LiverpoolLiverpool need a reaction, and fast. Three days after their unbeaten start to the season came to a crashing end at Anfield, Andoni Iraola takes his depleted squad to Linz for a Champions League clash against Austrian champions LASK on Wednesday evening.Sundays 3-0 defeat to Manchester City will sting for a while. For an hour, Liverpool were the better side, but everything changed when Ryan Gravenberch was sent off for a second yellow card in the 62nd minute. Erling Haaland, Jrmy Doku and Rayan Cherki then scored in a devastating 13-minute spell, and Iraola was left fuming at referee Chris Kavanagh, insisting the first booking was never a yellow card.The positive for Liverpool is that Europe has gone well so far. They opened their campaign with a 2-1 win over Atltico Madrid at Anfield, with Alexis Mac Allister scoring the winner, and a win in Austria would put them in a strong position in the race for the top eight.LASK are living the dream just by being here. Dietmar Khbauers side clinched a historic first appearance in the Champions League league phase with an incredible play-off comeback against Celtic, coming back from 4-0 down in the tie to win 5-4 on aggregate. Their league-phase debut was less memorable, though, ending in a 1-0 defeat at AEK Athens.The Austrian double winners are in a sticky patch. Sundays 2-0 home defeat to Rapid Vienna made it four competitive games without a win, and Khbauer was blunt afterwards, admitting his side had been far away from a win and that Liverpool play well above Rapid.Liverpool will have fond memories of this fixture. They beat LASK 3-1 in Linz and 4-0 at Anfield in the Europa League group stage in 2023-24.The Champions League Table UEFA Champions League 2026 World #TeamPlayedWonDrawnLostGFGAGDPtsLast 1 1 Paris Saint Germain11006153 W 2 Bayern Mnchen11005053 W 3 Barcelona11005143 W 4 Manchester United11004043 W 5 Como11004133 W 6 VfB Stuttgart11003123 W 7 Sporting CP11003123 W 8 Manchester City11002023 W 9 Aston Villa11003213 W 10 Lens11003213 W 11 Real Betis11003213 W 12 Borussia Dortmund11003213 W 13 Liverpool11002113 W 14 Real Madrid11002113 W 15 Arsenal11001013 W 16 AEK Athens FC11001013 W 17 AS Roma10101101 D 18 Shakhtar Donetsk10101101 D 19 PSV Eindhoven10101101 D 20 Fenerbahe10101101 D 21 Villarreal100123-10 L 22 Lille100123-10 L 23 Slavia Praha100123-10 L 24 Club Brugge KV100123-10 L 25 Inter100112-10 L 26 Atletico Madrid100112-10 L 27 Napoli100101-10 L 28 Lask Linz100101-10 L 29 Viking100113-20 L 30 Galatasaray100113-20 L 31 FC Porto100102-20 L 32 RB Leipzig100114-30 L 33 Feyenoord100115-40 L 34 Sabah FA100104-40 L 35 Slovan Bratislava100116-50 L 36 Bodo/Glimt100105-50 L Position 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 : Promotion Champions League (Play Offs: 1/8-finals) Position 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 : Promotion Champions League (Play Offs: 1/16-finals) Team News for LASK Linz v LiverpoolIraola admitted after the City defeat that it will be difficult to get any of his injured players back for this one. It is something very small but now we play four games in 10 days, so its going to be difficult because now we fly to Austria in two days, he said. I think its going to be difficult to recover any of the injured players.That means Alexander Isak (thigh) and Cody Gakpo (ankle) are unlikely to feature, and Dominik Szoboszlai is also a major doubt. The Hungarian was a surprise absentee against City after coming back from international duty with what Iraola described as tightness, an overload in his hamstring. Hugo Ekitike remains out and Conor Bradley is not close to training with the team.There is some good news. Gravenberch is available because his suspension only applies to domestic matches, Jeremy Jacquet came through the City game after his hamstring scare, and Federico Chiesa made his first appearance of the season as a late substitute on Sunday.LASK have fresh injury problems of their own. Left wing-back George Bello limped off with a muscle injury against Rapid, and Khbauer confirmed: For Wednesday he is definitely out. Moses Usor, last seasons top scorer, also came off with a shoulder injury just 12 minutes after coming on, and his involvement is in serious doubt. Sascha Horvath is expected to be fit.Expected line-ups for LASK Linz v LiverpoolLASK: Jungwirth; Ciss, Tornich, Andrade; Jrgensen, Bogarde, Horvath, Flecker; Dank; Adeniran, KalajdzicLiverpool: Alisson; Araujo, Jacquet, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Barcola, Wirtz, Munoz; KoumasStats for LASK Linz v LiverpoolThe teams only previous fixtures came in the 2023/24 Europa League group stage, Liverpool winning3-1 in Austria on Matchday 1 Florian Flecker scoring LASKs consolation and4-0 at Anfield on Matchday 5, Cody Gakpo getting two goals.That made LASKs 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 Liverpools 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.This is only LASKs third European Cup campaign. Theylost 2-5 on aggregate against Grnik Zabrze in the 1965/66 preliminary roundandbeat Basel 5-2 on aggregate in the 2019/20 third qualifying roundbefore 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 Vienna and Austria Vienna.Prediction for LASK Linz v LiverpoolThis is a nasty fixture for Liverpool, although LASK are not in great form themselves. We fancy the visitors to edge it but it ought to be fairly close. Match PredictionLask Linz 0 1 Liverpool Topics LASK Liverpool F.C. 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