Much-changed Liverpool placed by Midtjylland
A much-changed Liverpool were kept hanging to deny Midtjylland a first ever Champions Little league group stage gain as the Reds escaped with a 1-1 attract Denmark on Wednesday.
Mohamed Salah opened up the scoring within the first minute to be Liverpool's all-time leading scorer in the Champions Group.
Alexander Scholz's penalty levelled for the Danish champions soon after the hour mark before Scholz had a winner eliminated for offside and rookie Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher saved Erik Sviatchenko's powerful header.
Liverpool were already guaranteed major spot in Group D, even though Midtjylland bow out of European competition as they finish bottom level of the group within their first Champions Group apparance.
Jurgen Klopp manufactured eight improvements from Sunday's 4-0 thrashing of Wolves.
However, surprisingly given the German's numerous issues about his players' workload and a busy December program, he retained Fabinho at centre-back and Salah in advance.
The Egyptian made an instantaneous impact as he seized after an attempted backpass by Scholz and raced clear to trickle a go past the goalkeeper.
Salah was twice denied a second by Jesper Hansen and Divock Origi likewise missed a big prospect to double Liverpool's lead.
Nevertheless, the substitution of Fabinho at half-time to provide the Brazilian a rest created lots of disruption in a youthful Liverpool defence.
Klopp handed a good debut to 18-year-old Billy Koumetio, who exactly became Liverpool's youngest participant in the Champions Group, alongside 19-year-good old Rhys Williams in central defence.
Sory Kaba smashed a shot against the crossbar just after hesitation from Koumetio early on in the second-half.
Midtjylland's pressure was eventually rewarded with the penalty but only following the first of a series of lengthy VAR reviews.
Anders Dreyer was first brought down by Kelleher due to he bore straight down on goal, but had formerly been ruled offside.
After reviewing the incident on the pitchside screen French referee Francois Letexier pointed to the location and Scholz drilled the spot-kick low beyond Kelleher.
The next VAR review went against the home side when Scholz's okay finish from a narrow angle was eliminated for offside.
Kelleher was first the hero in a good 1-0 make an impression on Ajax which secured qualification the other day and was first needed again when he parried Sviatchenko's header from a corner.
Klopp turned to the knowledge of Andy Robertson, Jordan Henderson, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane following the break to revive some control and Henderson produced a good last-ditch challenge to prevent Evander securing a good famous gain for Midtjylland.
But Liverpool could even have won the overall game later on when Takumi Minamino swept residence from Mane's knock straight down.
Minamino was at first given offside, but on review the target was instead controversially eliminated for a good handball by Mane.
Eight minutes of stoppage time were then added on to make up for the lost amount of time in reviews, but Midtjylland didn't repeat their famous make an impression on Manchester United in the Europa League in 2016 because they had to stay for a point against the English champions.
