Premier League leaders Liverpool reportedly sent scouts to watch Benfica’s Champions League clash against RB Leipzig at the Estadio da Luz.
There was no shortage of exciting young talents on the pitch as Benfica hosted RB Leipzig in their Champions League opener at the Estadio da Luz on Tuesday night.
But with Liverpool just one of the clubs who sent scouts to the Portuguese capital to take in an intriguing Group G clash, one name simply leaps off the page.
And it just so happens that Timo Werner produced a goalscoring masterclass under the watching eyes of a club who have been linked with him relentlessly for the best part of two years
The Echo reported as recently as April that Leipzig’s irrepressible goal-machine was on Liverpool’s radar with Jurgen Klopp a big fan of a player who has been transformed from a sprightly winger into something resembling Germany’s answer to Jamie Vardy over the last few seasons.
Werner is in the form of his life right now. The jet-heeled centre-forward took his tally to seven goals in six games in 2019/20 with the most clinical of braces on Lisbon soil, fizzing home a brilliant opener on the angle before tapping home a Marcel Sabitzer cross to seal an impressive 2-1 away win for Leipzig.
With a tantalising £26 million release clause in the former Stuttgart starlet’s new five-year contract, according to Kicker, expect speculation to go through the roof in next few months.
And, after another match-winning display from a striker at the top of his game, Klopp should find a glowing scouting report on his desk once he returns to Melwood from a trip to Naples.
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