Team<\/p>\n
Alisson Becker made his first appearance of pre-season as Arne Slot once again fielded almost entirely different teams in each half.<\/p>\n
Liverpool first half: Alisson, Stephenson, Gravenberch, Van Dijk, Robertson, Morton (Nyoni, 32), Szoboszlai, Salah, Elliott, Wirtz, Ngumoha.<\/p>\n
Liverpool second half: Mamardashvili, Bradley, Konate, Tsimikas, Kerkez, Jones, Gravenberch (Morton, 62), Nyoni, Gakpo, Doak, Frimpong.<\/p>\n
First half<\/p>\n
Respects were paid to Diogo Jota and Andre Silva before kick-off, with Liverpool players wearing black armbands and jerseys etched with Jota\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
One side of Kai Tak Stadium formed a mosaic reading \u2018DJ 20\u2019 and Sir Kenny Dalglish laid a wreath beside those supporters.<\/p>\n
When the match began, there were early efforts at both ends. First, Alisson got down low to thwart Christian Pulisic after the Reds had squandered possession in their own half.<\/p>\n
Szoboszlai and Leao drew routine saves with strikes from distance before the Serie A outfit took the lead on 10 minutes, courtesy of the latter.<\/p>\n
Leao was sent into space down the left flank on a Milan counter-attack and was able to move into a shooting position with Liverpool exposed. The forward thumped a finish into the roof of the net from an angle.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Salah and Florian Wirtz almost combined fruitfully but their series of short passes around the box were cut out as the former tried to set up the latter.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Liverpool soon levelled in style. Rio Ngumoha troubled Milan down the left and sent the ball back to Szoboszlai, who arced a fine curler over Mike Maignan into the top corner.<\/p>\n
The Milan goalkeeper had to react quickly within moments, repelling a low hit from the lively Ngumoha after more slick footwork created space.<\/p>\n
The Reds were enjoying the upper hand and Salah went close to recreating Szoboszlai\u2019s goal from the other side of the area, only to place the finish too high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Alisson Becker made his first appearance of pre-season as Arne Slot once again fielded almost entirely different…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[607,608,49,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,50,599,604,600,51,47,52,48,605],"class_list":["post-25241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-headlines","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-news","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}