Jurgen Klopp’s side played two entirely different XIs in the first and second halves, and got off to a superb start when Darwin Nunez slotted the opening goal into the net with less than three minutes gone.
Liverpool handed debuts to new signings Domink Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister but conceded when ex-Germany midfielder Lars Stindl crashed a stunning volley off the crossbar and in.
