Liverpool vs Monaco LIVE: Latest score and goal updates in pre-season friendly at Anfield

Mika Biereth breaks in behind and while Giorgi Mamardashvili makes a smart stop to deny the striker’s first effort, it falls right back to him and makes no mistake with the second shot.

Monaco are level. Deja vu from Soldier Field?

53 mins: Liverpool want a penalty after Alexander Isak hits the deck in the box, feeling he’s been tripped up – but the referee says Pape Cabral got the ball.

Nevertheless, good link up play with Ryan Gravenberch again.

50 mins: Quieter start to the second half than we got in the first.

Giorgi Mamardashvili has a bit of a scare on the ball and has to hoof it out for a throw to avoid getting closed down.

46 mins: Wataru Endo IMMEDIATELY into the action with two big flying headers – love to see it.

There are indeed a couple of changes. Alisson is replaced by Giorgi Mamardashvili in between the sticks, while Wataru Endo – who missed the World Cup due to injury – comes on for Ifeanyi Ndukwe.

Monaco, meanwhile, bring on Jordan Teze for Vanderson.

Second half coming up – doesn’t look like we’re getting wholesale changes from Andoni Iraola, but there might be a couple.

Liverpool new boy Victor Munoz started on the bench – will the second half bring his debut in a Reds shirt?

Liverpool have been far and away the better team in that first half, and Monaco will be grateful their one-goal deficit is not more.

However, the capitulation of last time out against Leeds will surely be weighing on the minds of Liverpool fans, even more so now after Aleksandr Golovin’s penalty.

For those who missed it, Liverpool surrendered a two-goal lead in the second half to lose 4-2 to their Premier League rivals in the final match of their USA tour.

Andoni Iraola will not want that becoming a trend as the new season approaches.

Andoni Iraola’s Anfield bow is going to plan so far!