N\u00fa\u00f1ez, who has been linked with a move away from Anfield this summer, had Liverpool 3-0 up within 20 minutes of kick off.<\/p>\n
Rio Ngumoha<\/a> and Federico Chiesa<\/a> also scored as Arne Slot’s side impressed in the game at Liverpool’s AXA Training Centre.<\/p>\n Florian Wirtz<\/a>, who joined Liverpool in a club-record transfer from Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> earlier this summer, featured in a strong first-half XI that also included Virgil van Dijk<\/a>, Andy Robertson<\/a>, Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> and Mohamed Salah<\/a>.<\/p>\n Liverpool made 10 changes at the break with Ibrahima Konat\u00e9<\/a>, Cody Gakpo<\/a>, Kostas Tsimikas<\/a>, and Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> featuring as well as new signings Milos Kerkez<\/a> and Jeremie Frimpong<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alisson Becker<\/a> didn’t feature for Liverpool with Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/a> starting in goal before being replaced by \u00c1rmin P\u00e9csi<\/a> shortly before the hour mark.<\/p>\n – Premier League preseason: Club-by-club fixtures, kick-off times<\/a> Meanwhile, sources told ESPN that Liverpool are yet to reach an agreement with Frankfurt regarding the transfer of Hugo Ekitike<\/a>. The clubs remain in talks about a move that would see Liverpool strengthen their attacking options.<\/p>\n Another Liverpool target, Alexander Isak<\/a>, missed Newcastle United<\/a>‘s 4-0<\/a> preseason defeat to Celtic<\/a> on Saturday with manager Eddie Howe saying<\/a> his absence was due to speculation about his future. However, Howe also expressed confidence that Isak would remain at Newcastle amid interest from Liverpool.<\/p>\n Liverpool later named the 29 players<\/a> that departed for their preseason tour of Asia on Sunday evening. There was no place for Chiesa, though Luis D\u00edaz<\/a> was included after missing Sunday’s friendly. ESPN reported last week<\/a> that Liverpool had rejected a \u20ac67.5 million (\u00a358.6m) bid from Bayern Munich<\/a> to sign the forward.<\/p>\n Liverpool first-half team: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Van Dijk, Szoboszlai, Nunez, Salah, Jones, Robertson, Wirtz, Ngumoha, Nyoni.<\/p>\n Liverpool second-half team: Mamardashvili (Pecsi, 59), Endo, Konate, Chiesa, Gakpo, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Doak (Stephenson, 74), Kerkez, Frimpong, Bradley.<\/p>\n Information from ESPN’s Mark Ogden contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 20, 2025, 03:20 PM ET Darwin N\u00fa\u00f1ez scored three goals in 14 first-half minutes for Liverpool as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Darwin N\u00fa\u00f1ez was on form for Liverpool in their preseason win against Stoke City.\u00a0Catherine Ivill – AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
– Isak missed Newcastle game due to transfer speculation – Howe<\/a>
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