The good thing about losing the early Champions League game is that broadcasters are so busy with the later games they can’t really dwell on it. As a result I’ve got nothing to tell you about, so will be on my way. Bye!

Andy Hunter has filed his match report from the Sukru Saracoglu:

Andoni Iraola arrived in Istanbul hoping to plug Liverpool’s flaws in attack only for holes to appear at the opposite end of the pitch. Fenerbahce capitalised on a late defensive collapse to launch Dirk Kuyt’s interim spell with a tumultuous victory and end Liverpool’s 100% run in the Champions League.

Liverpool’s second successive defeat will infuriate Iraola as much as the manner of Sunday’s loss to Arsenal. It was careless and easily avoidable. The visitors led twice, through Trey Nyoni’s first senior goal and a header from substitute Alexander Isak, only for Fenerbahce to level swiftly on both occasions and snatch a late winner when Vedat Muriqi punished weak defending from several in red. Bradley Barcola’s anonymous display up front was an added headache for the Liverpool head coach.

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“As this season goes on, Liverpool will regret more and more not investing in their defence,” writes Rupak Pramanik. “Alisson and Van Dijk are in the twilight of their careers, and there isn’t enough to help them out. Putting Szoboszlai in at right-back really exposes their defensive frailty.”

There’s still lots of Champions League football to come tonight, including Manchester City at RB Leipzig and Arsenal at Slavia Prague, and Dominic Booth is watching those here:

“Some of it was like, ‘Have they ever played together before?’” says Karen Carney. “They were very flat-footed. I don’t know if the Arsenal performance, it was too much, the fatigue. I don’t think Fenerbahce were all that.”

“The goals they conceded were awful,” says Steve McManaman. “That’s poor for a Champions League performance.”

90+3 mins: The ball doesn’t reach the keeper, and he scurries back in time to get on the ball and swing it into the area from just inside the Fenerbahce half. When it dips Gakpo taps back to Van Dijk, whose isn’t standing anywhere near the kind of spot from which he might score with a left-foot shot, and duly doesn’t score with his left-foot shot. And that is most likely that..

90+2 mins: Another Liverpool corner. Alisson comes up for it!

90+1 mins: Wide! Alisson comes out to deal with a long clearance, but his header towards Kerkez is intercepted by Guendouzi, and though the keeper reaches his pass first he sends it back to the former Arsenal midfielder, who shoots first-time from tight on the byline, about 60 yards out, but misses.

90+1 mins: Three minutes of stoppage time are signalled.

89 mins: For the first time the game has dipped a bit in intensity. Odd time for it.

87 mins: Boos and whistles as Liverpool have the ball. They appear to be playing with a front four, with the substitute Koumas joining Gakpo, Isak and Barcola.

86 mins: His shot hits only a spectator.

85 mins: Mac Allister is booked for bringing down Akturkoglu, and Fenerbahce have a decent chance to shoot from the resulting free-kick, which Akturkoglu himself appears to fancy.

84 mins: The commentator wonders what this result could do for Kuyt, “right at the start of his time as manager of Fenerbahce”. Um, I think you’ll find it’s the end.

82 mins: Now Van Dijk at the other end heads goalwards, but from far enough away that Ederson can fall on it.

81 mins: Ally McCoist on co-commentary wants to know why Alisson didn’t come for the cross as it arced slowly into the area, and really he is the one who might have prevented the goal.

76 mins: More substitutions: Kahveci and Semedo go off for Fenerbahce, and Muldur and Akturkoglu come on. Meanwhile in like-for-like news Liverpool bring Kerkez on for Tsimikas.

75 mins: It’s a Kante cross chipped in from outside the area. Alisson comes for it but Gakpo, in front of him, gets his eyebrows to the ball and flicks it past his goalkeeper, leaving Brown with a tap-in!

71 mins: Nearly a lovely break from Liverpool let by Barcola, who eventually plays in Gakpo but the pass is fractionally overhit, the Dutchman decides that Ederson is going to get there first, and instead the ball rolls out of play.

66 mins: Liverpool make a triple substitution: Gomes, Munoz and Ngumoha come off, Wirtz, Isak and Gakpo come on, and Barcola is shunted over to the right flank.

65 mins: Another save! It’s Muriqi, the freshly-arrived substitute, from away to the right of goal, with a shot that’s well struck but from too wide to beat Alisson.

64 mins: Archie Brown gets away from Gomez with absurd ease, skips merrily areawards and shoots wide.

63 mins: A substitution! Vedat Muriqi comes on for Lukaku.

62 mins: Munoz’s shot is well cleared by Skriniar, though it was going wide anyway, and Liverpool’s 10th corner comes and goes without incident.

61 mins: Gomez gets the ball in the Fenerbahce half and nobody closes him down, so he runs towards the penalty area, and then a bit further towards it, and at some point he decides he should probably have a shot now he’s this close, which inevitably he scuffs well wide.

59 mins: Munoz covers Brown’s run well enough, but he hits his clearance into the Fenerbace left-back’s chest and the rebound falls kindly for Brown to hammer a shot at goal, which is saved.

57 mins: Saved! And again saved! The first is Barcola’s shot towards the near post but turned around it, and the second is Van Dijk’s header from the resulting corner, which he should probably have buried but goes straight into Ederson’s gloves.

56 mins: Fenerbahce boot the ball out of defence pretty aimlessly, but when you’ve got Lukaku around these things can be useful, and he heads it on to Kahveci who’s suddenly scurrying into Liverpool’s half. But Nyoni does well to track him, and dispossess.

55 mins: Another better spell for Liverpool, though it would be a stretch to describe anything about this game as control. “Wondering about a Greek yoghurt conglomerate sponsoring a Turkish team,” wonders Tim Smith. “Would not appear to be the most natural of fits.” The (yoghurt) culture wars.

52 mins: A Liverpool corner isn’t quite cleared, and when eventually it’s sent back in Mac Allister heads feebly at goal, and Ederson catches.

50 mins: The corner dips towards Van Dijk, but as it does so he gives his marker, Kahveci, a bit of a push and the referee sees it.

49 mins: The second half is continuing in much the same pell-mell vein as the first. Ngumoha goes on a nice run, which ends with a shot from a very acute angle, deflected wide for a corner.

46 mins: We’re back under way, with no halftimely changes from either side.

It was a half of two halves for Liverpool, one encouraging, the other concerning, as the out-of-form sixth-best side in Turkey made them really uncomfortable. It wasn’t just the atmosphere they were struggling with. Still, they have parity, and their nominal striker – Barcola in the first half – can’t be any less influential in half two.

45+1 mins: There’ll be one minute of stoppage time.

45 mins: Save! Lukaku plays Greenwood into space beyond Greenwood on the Fenerbahce left, and he stings Alisson’s palms with a shot.

43 mins: Lukaku beautifully sets up a teammate for a shooting chance at the edge of the D. Sadly the player he sets up is Kante, who isn’t much of a goalscorer.

41 mins: … and it’s headed to Yuksek, 30 yards out, whose shot misses the target by at least that distance.

41 mins: Fenerbahce win themselves a corner for the first time. Liverpool have had and wasted six.

39 mins: Fenerbahce are really troubling Liverpool at the moment. They zip the ball around the edge of the visitors’ box for a while before working it to Greenwood, whose shot goes just wide of the near post.

37 mins: Barcola’s header from Munoz’s left-wing cross bounces a foot or so wide.

35 mins: This is all very frantic. Iraola spoke yesterday about how his team needed “to try to kill the confidence and momentum they can have with the supporters”. They have not done that.

32 mins: Another chance for the Turks! This time Lukaku gets into the right side of the area but what follows is neither cross nor shot, and duly is a goal kick.

31 mins: It was not good defending from Jacquet, who jumped in the wall as if his priority was not preventing a goal but preventing himself getting hit, twisting to get himself side-on. The ball then skidded off his thigh, and past Alisson.

28 mins: The Fenerbahce bench have not been greatly amused by the last few minutes, and Kuyt is booked for expressing his dissatisfaction.

27 mins: Now Fenerbahce hit the bar! A cross from the left, an outstretched leg in the centre, and the ball smashes into the woodwork!

25 mins: It was a long, crossfield diagonal from the left. Greenwood took it under control really nicely, but Tsimikas got to him before he could shoot. Meanwhile …

24 mins: Willy Delajod, the VAR, appears not to have taken a closer look, and play continues.

23 mins: Nearly a goal for Fenerbahce! But Greenwood, as he swings his right foot, gets pushed from behind by Tsimikas and goes down! The referee waves play on, but the VAR might want to take a closer look.

21 mins: Close! Gomez crosses low from the right flank, but just too far in front of Barcola at the near post and the ball runs across goal and away to safety.

20 mins: Nearly a quarter of the way through the game and Liverpool have had 100% of the shots and 100% of the corners, as well as 75% of the passes. They’ve just had another corner, but not another shot.

17 mins: There is a whiff of away goal in the air here. Munoz gets into the area now, but his cross deflects behind off Yuksek.

16 mins: Save! Tsimikas underhits a backpass and Kante gets there before Alisson, but a) he shoots straight into the goalkeeper, and b) the referee had anyway given Liverpool a free-kick for a foul on Van Dijk by Lukaku.

15 mins: Liverpool, amid the whistles and boos, work the ball through midfield really well, but it ends up with Tsimikas who overhits his cross. Then moments later Tsimikas gets another chance, and this one is hit limply at Ederson.

13 mins: … from which he hits Victor Munoz, who was standing alongside the defensive wall.

12 mins: Ngumoha is brought down by Kante, not far outside the penalty area, and Szoboszlai will have a shot from the resulting free-kick.

9 mins: And barely a minute later Guendouzi gets lectured by the referee for having the cheek to question a free-kick decision, after Mac Allister went over in midfield (also not a free kick, mind).

7 mins: Nothing comes from the corner, and Munoz is sent running down the right for Liverpool. Guendouzi gets in front of him, and when Munoz briefly brushes a hand against him the Frenchman flings himself to the ground, and wins a free kick.

6 mins: Fenerbahce win an attacking throw-in, and out comes a towel so Brown can get a proper grip on it.

5 mins: And another one! From the corner Szoboszlai eventually sends in a good cross from the right, and Jacquet miscues a header from six yards! Goal kick.

4 mins: Chances! Tsimikas’s cross from the left bounces through to Munoz, who has an excellent shooting chance but his effort is mishit and therefore runs to Barcola, whose effort is even more miskicked, and the ball goes back to Munoz, who finally forces a save out of Ederson.

3 mins: They keep booing for another minute or so while Liverpool continue keeping that ball, but eventually Szoboszlai hits a pass out of play, and they stop for a bit.

2 mins: Whistles and boos as Liverpool play keep-ball for a bit.

1 min: Peeeeeep! Liverpool get the match under way.

Before kick-off, a minute’s silence in memory of Jesús de Miguel, the Tenerife striker who died after an on-pitch collision over the weekend.

The players are on the pitch! And while the tournament anthem rings out, the Fenerbahce midfielder Yuksek gives his mascot a fairly intense cheek massage.

The players are gathering in the tunnel, while outside rain continues to fall, and Gala’s Freed from Desire rings out.

Classic football image here.

Dirk Kuyt has also had a pre-match chat:

I’m feeling well, looking forward to the game. It’s a bit of English weather, but for football it’s amazing. I feel the atmosphere is going to be amazing, so let’s go for it. Of course when you work very intensively for four months together with the head coach and his staff it’s never easy when there are changes. You’re always looking for stability. The main thing is to be united, to stay working hard and to be tied together. Liverpool have some pretty good memories about Liverpool and if you believe in yourself and the magic is in the air you never know what you can do. The first thing is we need to show energy on the pitch, we have to play physical. The main thing is if we show the energy on the pitch the crowd will get behind us and they will lift us up.

Andoni Iraola has a pre-match chat about his team changes:

I think we’ve been doing it all season. If you play every three four days you need to refresh the legs. In defensive positions we don’t have so many options, but in attacking positions we can see other options. I think Bradley, even Victor, are wingers but have played sometimes up front and I think we should be mobile, able to attack spaces if they are there, have good combinations also outside. I think Bradley can do this job very well.

And on the atmosphere they’re set to face:

We’ve tried to do all the mentality stuff. You are playing something different when you are playing a Turkish team. I hope we can be at the level because the beginning of their last Champions League game they scored two goals straight away. It would be a very important win, because it would put us in a very good position for the second half of this league phase.

The Liverpool players have arrived at the catchily-named Şükrü Saracoğlu Spor Kompleksi, where it is apparently very wet. Şükrü Saracoğlu, since you ask, was Turkish prime minister between 1942 and 1946, and also president of Fenerbahce from 1934 to 1950.

Earlier today Liverpool’s Under-19s beat their Fenerbahce counterparts 5-3, with Will Wright scoring a hat-trick. They were 3-1 up after just 20 minutes, and 4-2 up after half an hour, while Fenerbahce finished with 10 men after Ali Demirbilek was sent off in stoppage time. Also on the scoresheet was Finn Inglethorpe, son of Liverpool’s long-time academy director, Alex.

Here’s Andy Hunter’s pre-match missive from Istanbul:

Andoni Iraola has said Liverpool must improve their attacking play but dismissed concerns over the contrast between his team’s output in the Premier League and Champions League.

Liverpool boast a 100% record in Europe this season and can take a significant step towards qualification for the knockout phase with victory away at Fenerbahce on Wednesday.

Iraola’s side failed to register a shot on target, according to Opta, during Sunday’s defeat by Arsenal, the first time Liverpool have drawn a blank in a Premier League home game since their records began in 2003-04. The Liverpool head coach believes the statistic did not reflect his team’s performance but admitted there is room for improvement.

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