Liverpool vs Bayern Munich LIVE: Latest score and updates after Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk goals

The new football season is nearly upon us and it’s just over a week before the Premier League returns. After a poor season last year, which saw Liverpool miss out on Champions League football this term, the Reds have been undergoing a midfield rebuild this summer. Ageing players like Jordan Henderson and Fabinho have moved to the Saudi Pro League with manager Jurgen Klopp bringing in replacements in the forms of Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister . Liverpool have done there business early in this transfer window and will hope their new signings can hit the ground running. Szoboszlai and Mac Allister will form the basis of Liverpool’s starting XI this season and start alongside each for the first time in pre-season today. The Reds face their toughest test as they take on the Bundesliga champions and have named a strong line-up. Follow all the action as Liverpool take on Bayern Munich in Singapore: Liverpool vs Bayern Munich Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai start in midfield Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Jonas, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister; Salah, Jota, Gakpo Bayern XI: Sommer; Upamecano, Pavard, Kim, Davies; Kimmich, Laimer; Sane, Gnabry, Musiala; Tel 42′ GOAL! – Leroy Sane nets the equaliser before half-time (LIV 2-2 BAY) 33′ GOAL! – Serge Gnabry pulls one back for Bayern (LIV 2-1 BAY) 28′ GOAL! – Virgil van Dijk powers a header into the net from a corner (LIV 2-0 BAY) 2′ GOAL! – Cody Gakpo fires Liverpool ahead instead the opening two minutes (LIV 1-0 BAY) Liverpool 2-2 Bayern Munich 13:18 , Mike Jones Half-time! 45+2 mins: Both teams have been decent in attack and both teams have looked shaky in defence. It’s a typical pre-season performance but that doesn’t mean that game hasn’t been interesting. There are questions that Jurgen Klopp will want answering before the season starts. Alexis Mac Allister takes a knock on the jnee as the first half comes to a close. Liverpool 2-2 Bayern Munich 13:15 , Mike Jones 44 mins: Liverpool lost their shape completely in that counter from Bayern. It was way too easy for Gnabry to carry the ball into the box and there was no urgency to get back and defend. GOAL! Liverpool 2-2 Bayern Munich (Sane. 42′)⚽️ 13:13 , Mike Jones 42 mins: Serge Gnabry is played into space on the left wing. He carries the ball into the box and slots a lovely pass over to Leroy Sane who turns it wonderfully into the back of the net. Bayern are level. Liverpool 2-1 Bayern Munich 13:12 , Mike Jones 39 mins: Joshua Kimmich floats another pass over the top and find Serge Gnabry who seems offside again. Liverpool get back quicker this time though and allow him to get into the box. Joel Matip closes Gnabry down and knocks the ball out of play – off the attacker – to win Liverpool a goal kick. Liverpool 2-1 Bayern Munich 13:08 , Mike Jones 36 mins: Cody Gakpo is knocked off the ball by Dayot Upamecano and Liverpool win a free kick inside Bayern’s final third. It’s a long way out for Trent Alexander-Arnold to think about shooting. Instead he flicks the ball into the box for Gakpo but Upamecano nods it away and Bayern clear their lines. GOAL! Liverpool 2-1 Bayern Munich (Gnabry, 33′)⚽️ 13:05 , Mike Jones 33 mins: Liverpool concede! A simple forward ball from Kim Ming-jae sees the defender knock it up to Serge Gnabry who’s drifting in from the left. He looks offside as the ball drops to him but the flag stays down. Gnabry dips into the box, cuts inside of Joel Matip then slots it past Alisson to bring Bayern back into this game. Liverpool 2-0 Bayern Munich 13:01 , Mike Jones 31 mins: Liverpool have a comfortable lead now. Bayern had just started to impsose themselves on the Reds but that goal will give Jurgen Klopp’s men some confidence. It wasn’t the best defending from Bayern but as it’s pre-season they may not want to put their bodies on the line against a fully flying Virgil van Dijk. GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Bayern Munich (Van Dijk, 28′) 12:59 , Mike Jones 28 mins: Liverpool score again! They win themselves a corner that Andy Robertson comes across to take. He curls the ball into the middle of the box where Virgil van Dijk sprints onto the ball and powers a header into the box of the net. Yann Sommer didn’t even move to stop that one. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:58 , Mike Jones 27 mins: The corner ball is whipped into the middle of the box and gets cleared out by the Liverpool defenders. The ball comes out to Diogo Jota who storms across the halfway line. He slides the ball up to Mo Salah who needs to sprint across the pitch to recover it. Alphonso Davies puts his head down and takes on Salah in a race with the Bayern defender pipping the Egyptian to the ball. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:55 , Mike Jones 24 mins: Jamal Musiala darts past Trent Alexander-Arnold on the left wing but he runs the ball out of play. Bayern recover it quickly and slip Serge Gnabry into the left side of the box. He lifts a cross into the middle and wins a corner. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:53 , Mike Jones 21 mins: There’s a water break happening now as it’s very warm in Singapore. The big screen is showing a replay of Cody Gakpo’s goal which is a cracker. He had the option of passing to Mo Salah but went for goal himself and finished it off beautifully. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:50 , Mike Jones 18 mins: Trent Alexander-Arnold flings a throw in into the box where it bounces to Mo Salah. Salah tries to find Dominik Szoboszlai but he’s crowded out and Bayern come away with the ball. Szoboszlai looks to recover the ball immediately but he gives away a free kick with a simple foul. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:49 , Mike Jones 15 mins: Bayern Munich have responded well since the opening goal. Leroy Sane brings the ball across the face of the box before sending it out wide. Serge Gnabry threads the ball in behind for Jamal Musiala but he’s beaten to the byline by Virgil van Dijk who pokes it behind for a corner. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:43 , Mike Jones 12 mins: Close! Bayern Munich swing the ball deep into the box. Diogo Jota is beaten to the ball over near the far post and the initial header is nodded across the six-yard area. Benjamin Pavard is free and meets the ball. He nods it onto the left-hand post, gets to the rebound and head a second effort over the crossbar! Liverpool survive but they’re were torn apart from that set piece. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:41 , Mike Jones 11 mins: Jamal Musiala and Serge Gnabry bring the ball through the middle of the pitch and sweep past Curtis Jones in his new holding midfield role. Bayern slip the ball into the box hoping to find Mathys Tel but Virgil van Dijk boots it out for a corner. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:39 , Mike Jones 8 mins: Alphonso Davies bombs forward on the left wing and brings the ball to the edge of Liverpool’s penalty area. There’s not many options on for the left-back so he tries to send the ball inside. Liverpool intercept the pass, take over possession and win a throw in over on the right wing. Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich 12:36 , Mike Jones 5 mins: Close! Bayern Munich are playing with a high line meaning Liverpool are able to get in behind easily enough. This time it’s Mo Salah who receives the ball on the right side. He cuts into the box and shoots but Kim Min-jae is there to get the block in. GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Bayern Munich (Gakpo, 2′)⚽️ 12:34 , Mike Jones 2 mins: What a start! A throw in comes to Cody Gakpo in the middle of the pitch. He turns off the nearest defender then storms down the left channel. Diogo Jota drifts out wide and is given the ball before slotting it back to Gakpo to get him in behind. Gakpo carries the ball into the box then belts it past Yann Sommer to opening the scoring! Liverpool 0-0 Bayern Munich 12:32 , Mike Jones Kick off! The game gets underway and the ball is booted long up the pitch. It’s skip into Bayern Munich’s box and comes through to Yann Sommer who scoops it up. Bayern take possession early on and look to attack down the right side but run the ball out for a throw in. Liverpool vs Bayern Munich 12:28 , Mike Jones Here come the players. Virgil van Dijk leads out the Reds as they make their way out onto the pitch at the National Stadium in Singapore. It’s a packed house for this one. 12:24 , Mike Jones Liverpool have made two bids for Romeo Lavia but are considering other options if Southampton do not drop their asking price. The relegated club are thought to want £50m for the Belgium international while Liverpool have a valuation of the 19-year-old based on his age and experience. Lavia has played 29 Premier League games for Saints while Liverpool bought the 24-year-old World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton for £35m and the Hungary captain Dominik Szoboszlai for £60m this summer. 12:20 , Mike Jones Jurgen Klopp has laughed off the idea Liverpool will sign Kylian Mbappe this summer. The France captain has been the subject of a world-record £259 million bid from Al-Hilal, which Paris Saint-Germain accepted as they risk losing the forward on a free transfer this summer. Liverpool could not make a similar offer but had been touted as a possible destination for Mbappe on a season-long loan but Klopp was quick to rule them out of the reckoning. Fans arrive in Singapore 12:16 , Mike Jones One of the best things about pre-season is that fans from other parts of the world get to see their team play in person. There’ll be a lot of happy people arriving at the National Stadium in Singapore today. Alexander-Arnold on being named Liverpool vice-captain 12:12 , Mike Jones Trent Alexander-Arnold says he is ready for the responsibility of being named Liverpool’s vice-captain. ‘Yeah, of course I feel ready, I feel like without being put in this position, I felt like I’ve been a leader and I lead by example with the things I do on a daily basis in training and in and around the lads,’ he said ahead of today’s clash with Bayern Munich. ‘I think the lads see me as someone in a leadership role, and I’m happy the manager and staff see that too. That’s my mentality: I want to lead by example, I want to make sure that I take responsibility for what I do and how the team performs as well. ‘It’s an amazing position to be in but there’s more responsibility on me to make sure that we succeed and we achieve the things we want to this season.’ 12:08 , Mike Jones It transpires there are different kinds of problems involving the Liverpool midfield. Last season was a tale of the aged, the injured, the inconsistent and the incoherent, the malfunctioning midfield that meant a champion team suddenly looked disjointed and disappointing. If it was an exaggeration to say Liverpool didn’t have a midfield last season, in a sense they don’t have one now. Or not their old midfield, anyway. An exodus was partly planned, partly thrust upon Jurgen Klopp by Saudi Arabia’s injection of money and unexpected wish to acquire defensive midfielders . Perhaps Jordan Henderson and Fabinho will not be able to gegenpress in 45-degree heat, but it is not Klopp’s immediate concern; if the plan was for two new faces to feature in his first-choice midfield, a complete overhaul has become necessary. He wanted change and got a revolution instead. Bayern Munich line-up 12:03 , Mike Jones Here’s how Bayern Munich line up for this match. Thomas Tuchel has named a strong team too so this one should be a belter – as far as pre-season friendlies are concerned anyway. Bayern XI: Sommer; Upamecano, Pavard, Kim, Davies; Kimmich, Laimer; Sane, Gnabry, Musiala; Tel Szoboszlai on moving to Liverpool 11:58 , Mike Jones Dominik Szoboszlai was eager to find out if his move to Liverpool was going to get over the line and followed all the online rumours while waiting to hear from his agent. Speaking to Liverpoolfc.com he spoke about how his transfer to Anfield came about. ‘We have my agent, my father and me – I never decide alone or my agent never decides alone or my dad never decides alone, it doesn’t matter what’s going on. We always decide as three,’ Szoboszlai said. ‘My agent wrote in our WhatsApp group [about Liverpool’s interest]; I was on holiday, my father was doing something else and my agent was also somewhere else. We had a group call. ‘My agent doesn’t want to say before anything is fixed, so he doesn’t come to me and say, ‘It may be possible.’ He only comes to me when he says it’s close and he needs me now to decide. So then we had a call and everything. ‘But of course I saw the rumours and I wrote to him every day… ‘Anything happening? Anything happening?’ I wanted to know. He said, ‘Just don’t worry, wait.” Curtis Jones speaking about Liverpool’s new signings and playing deeper in midfield 11:54 , Mike Jones Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones has played a couple of pre-season matches in a deeper midfield role usual