Europa League: Ryan Gravenberch Stars As Liverpool Thrash Toulouse 5-1

Liverpool on Thursday thrashed Toulouse 5-1 to move one step closer to the Europa League knockout phase.

Gravenberch was the star of the show at Anfield as Liverpool won their third straight game in the competition to create a five-point gap at the top of Group E. The midfielder bagged Liverpool’s fourth goal with 25 minutes to go after Darwin Nunez’s comical miss.

Diogo Jota scored the opening goal nine minutes in after a superb run but Toulouse fired back five minutes later through Thijs Dallinga. Endo headed in his first Liverpool goal on the half-hour to put them back in the lead before Nunez scored their third ahead of the break. Mohamed Salah added a fifth off the bench in stoppage time.

Klopp was also impressed by Endo who, if trusted in bigger games, could solve Liverpool’s problems at the base of midfield. “He was really strong,” Klopp added. “He played a really good game, he broke the lines with his passing. [The goal is] a nice next step for him.”

Liverpool, who play Toulouse in France next in the Europa League on November 9, would confirm their progression to the next round with another victory. If second-place Union SG, the Belgian club part-owned by Brighton chairman Tony Bloom, were to also drop points then the top spot would be confirmed.