Liverpool 4-3 Villarreal: Mac Allister double as Liverpool come from 2-0 down at Anfield

Final score: Liverpool 4-3 Villarreal (half-time 2-2), UEFA Champions League league phase, matchday 3, at Anfield on Tuesday night.

Goals (times per Sky Sports):

• 4’ Georges Mikautadze (Villarreal), 0-1
• 29’ Sergi Cardona (Villarreal), 0-2
• 36’ Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool), 1-2
• 45+2’ Ronald Araújo (Liverpool), 2-2
• 65’ Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool), 3-2
• 68’ Florian Wirtz (Liverpool), 4-2
• 87’ Tani Oluwaseyi (Villarreal), 4-3

Key moments: Liverpool FC said Mikautadze scored after Virgil van Dijk’s header back to goalkeeper Alisson Becker fell short. Mac Allister headed in Kostas Tsimikas’s corner, and Araújo headed in Rio Ngumoha’s cross at the back post, the club said. Ngumoha also set up Mac Allister’s second, and Wirtz, a half-time substitute, scored from Cody Gakpo’s pass three minutes later, according to Liverpool FC and Sky Sports. Liverpool FC reported that Ayoze Pérez hit the post before Oluwaseyi’s late volley. UEFA named Ngumoha player of the match. Sky Sports said it was the earliest Liverpool had fallen behind at Anfield in a major European tie for 25 years. Attendance was 59,610, the club said.

What it means: Andoni Iraola’s side have nine points from three games, level with PSG at the top of the league phase, according to UEFA.

See also: Champions League matchday 3 round-up.