Andoni Iraola ya fara mulkin sa a matsayin babban kocin Liverpool da nasara mai kwanciyar hankali ta 2-0 kan Ipswich Town a filin wasa Portman Road ranar Juma'a dare, inda Alexander Isak ya ci kwallaye biyu a cikin mintina tara na farko don rufe wasan da wuri.

Isak ya nuna zalunci tun daga farko, yana amfani da kuskuren mai tsaron gidan Ipswich Kjell Scherpen a duka lokutan biyu. Kwallonsa ta farko ta zo ne a minti na 6, bayan Cody Gakpo ya aiko masa wucewa daidai cikin sarari, sai ya buga mai ƙarfi wanda ya gangara cikin hannuwan Scherpen. Mintina uku bayan haka, Scherpen ya fita daga layinsa cikin sauri don bin wata dogon kwallon da ya bar kansa a buɗe, sai Isak ya azabtarshi da ƙarshen ƙasa mai nutsuwa a cikin ragar komai.

Gakpo ne ya ƙirƙiri kwallaye biyu, yana ci gaba da nuna ƙwazo mai ban sha'awa a karkashin sabon koci — ɗaya daga cikin alamu mafi kyau na zamanin Iraola a Anfield.

Barcola ya fara wasansa na farko

Rabin na biyu ya kawo muhimmin lokaci yayin da Bradley Barcola, sabon ɗan wasan da Liverpool ta sayo daga PSG da £123m, ya shiga filin wasa a minti na 66 don yin wasansa na farko a Premier League. Liverpool, tare da kwanciyar hankali a cikin wasa, suka zauna cikin tsari da horo don samun shafewar farko a karkashin Iraola.

Cece-kuce na ƙila ta nuna saɓani

Yammacin bai yi ba tare da tashin hankali. Yan kallo na Ipswich sun yi fushi sosai lokacin da Jérémy Jacquet, wanda ya riga ya samu katin rawaya saboda laifi a kan Emersonn, ya bayyana ya kai hari daga baya a wani lamari na biyu — ba tare da ƙila Darren England ya ba da foul kwata-kwata, balle katin rawaya na biyu ba.

Liverpool kuma sun sami lokacinsu na VAR yayin da Dominik Szoboszlai ya fadi a cikin yankin horo daga Leif Davis a minti na 70, wanda ya sa England ya duba allon a gefen filin. Duk da haka, Stockley Park ta tabbatar cewa Szoboszlai ya kasance a matsayin offside a lokacin shirya kai hari, kuma an soke hukuncin fanariti.

A baya, Isak ya ga kwallonsa ta uku an soke ta jim kaɗan kafin hutu bayan an daga tutar offside bayan ingantaccen jigilar Florian Wirtz — wanda ya hana shi sake yin hat-trick da ya zura a ziyararsa ta ƙarshe Portman Road yana wakiltar Newcastle United.

Ga Iraola, sakamakon — ko ta yaya ya zo — farko ne mai kyau. Liverpool ya bayyana yana da tsari, yana da kwazo, kuma yana shirye don gogayya yayin da kakar wasan Premier League ke ci gaba da samuwa.