Lewis Koumas ‘has a future’ with Liverpool as starlet equals Steven Gerrard Champions League record

By Oliver Thomas | 15 Oct 2026 08:11, Last updated: 15 Oct 2026 08:12

Lewis Koumas has matched a Champions League grounds acceptable by Liverpool fable Steven Gerrard aft helping the Reds unafraid a thrilling 6-3 distant triumph implicit LASK Linz connected Wednesday.

The 21-year-old academy postgraduate marked conscionable his 4th elder commencement for Liverpool with a first-half assistance for hat-trick leader Bradley Barcola, earlier scoring their sixth extremity of the nighttime successful a 2nd fractional that saw LASK combat backmost with 3 goals.

His assistance required neat feet wrong the punishment container to tee-up Barcola for a sweeping strike, earlier the young guardant got his sanction connected the scoresheet with a first-time changeable from astir 8 yards retired that fired done the legs of the goalkeeper.

Koumas is conscionable the 2nd Liverpool subordinate successful past aged 21 oregon younger to people and assistance a extremity successful a Champions League lucifer aft erstwhile skipper Gerrard against Dynamo Kyiv backmost successful October 2001 (also 21).

Reflecting connected a memorable nighttime successful Austria, Koumas told reporters: “It's a bully triumph but yet [it was about] the absorption from the past crippled (3-0 Premier League nonaccomplishment to Man City) to effort to bounce back. I thought we did that good and we request to effort to instrumentality that into the play now.

“[My goal] sums everything up, to beryllium honest! It's bully to get a extremity successful this contention - the highest level of football. I'm truly happy.

Koumas makes his people for Liverpool arsenic Gerrard heaps praise connected forward

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“Jeremie (Frimpong) has got it retired of his feet and crossed and it's taken a bounce. I've conscionable focused connected the interaction and getting it connected target. I've done that and it's gone done [the goalkeeper's] legs.”

Koumas, who besides had 2 goals ruled retired for offside, added: “I deliberation it's important arsenic a striker... you can't dwell connected the misses oregon the chances that you get and don't take.

“The 2 were offside and I was conscionable waiting for the adjacent 1 to travel - and it came truly precocious on. That's wherefore it's important to support level-headed.”

Koumas enjoyed his 2nd successive commencement nether caput manager Andoni Iraola aft making his afloat Premier League debut arsenic a centre-forward successful past weekend’s three-goal decision to Man City.

Although helium was incapable to assistance the Reds people connected that occasion, Gerrard was impressed by the youngster's efforts successful onslaught and believes helium deserves a spot successful the first-team squad.

Speaking connected The Overlap Daily, Gerrard said: “I came done Liverpool's academy with his dad. His dada was an awesome player, two-footed, antithetic benignant of midfielder, Jason Koumas.

“I had immoderate large days with him erstwhile we were young kids, erstwhile shot was fun, earlier it becomes serious. Unbelievable player, large family. Delighted for him, and I'm an academy boy. Roots.

Gerrard: ‘There's a aboriginal for Koumas astatine Liverpool’

“I emotion seeing young kids get opportunities and instrumentality them, and helium was thrown successful astatine the heavy end. I cognize he's had a mates of pockets of minutes, but yesterday was Man City astatine home.

“What a crippled for your archetypal Premier League start, and you cognize what, he'd done himself proud, he'd done the academy proud.

“He was a small spot escaped astatine times, truthful there's a batch to enactment on, a batch of imaginable there. But successful presumption of rolling your sleeves up, being up for it, warring for your team, representing the supporters, representing the academy. He didn't look similar an academy subordinate retired there, helium played similar a man.

“I'm arrogant of him. I truly am. I'm delighted that helium took his chance, and what helium showed maine arsenic a Liverpool instrumentality yesterday is helium tin beryllium portion of this radical moving forward, due to the fact that helium volition improve.

"And if you get the close coaching astir him and they don't conscionable let him to beryllium portion of a team, amended him individually and fto him beryllium portion of our squad. I deliberation there's a aboriginal for him."

With Alexander Isak, Cody Gakpo and Hugo Ekitike each nursing injuries astatine present, Koumas could beryllium handed different commencement successful onslaught for Liverpool erstwhile they question to West London to look Brentford successful the Premier League connected Saturday.