💫 Bundesliga stars Wirtz and Ekitiké dazzle for Liverpool | OneFootball

One couldn't possibly imagine a better competitive debut: In the FA Community Shield between Liverpool FC and Crystal Palace, it took just four minutes for the Reds' new dream duo to strike for the first time.

The Bundesliga exports Hugo Ekitiké and Florian Wirtz, who together cost around 240 million euros in transfer fees, showed their full class in just one action and impressively proved why they were worth so much money to the English champions.

After a clever pass from Wirtz, the former Frankfurt player Ekitiké brilliantly controlled the ball and scored with an absolute world-class finish for the early lead. That's one way to do it!

It seems like Liverpool has managed to bring in quite a lot of quality from the so-called Farmers League...

For the sake of completeness: Jean-Philippe Mateta, also a former Bundesliga player, scored a penalty in the 17th minute for a quick 1:1 equalizer. Jeremie Frimpong, another ex-Buli star, put the Reds back in the lead, before the Eagles were able to equalize to 2:2 in the 77th minute.

In the end, Liverpool lost in a penalty shootout. Wirtz and Ekitiké were meanwhile already on the bench.

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