Liverpool, A.C. Milan and Florian Wirtz
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Max Allegri’s Milan emerged 4-2 winners against Liverpool in a pre-season friendly, with Rafael Leao, Noah Okafor and Ruben Loftus-Cheek clinical on the counter-attack.The Rossoneri lost 1-0 to
AC Milan beat Liverpool 4-2 in a pre-season friendly in Hong Kong on Saturday as the Premier League club's record signing Florian Wirtz made his first start for them. Former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish laid a wreath before the game and the players had "Diogo J 20" on their shirts in honour of their former teammate Diogo Jota,
LIVERPOOL suffered their first defeat of pre-season as they were run ragged by AC Milan in Hong Kong. To make matters worse, Arne Slot’s side conceded a comical 94th-minute goal to compound
Midfielder Ryan Gravenberch was pressed into duty there alongside captain Virgil van Dijk during the opening 45 minutes against Milan. Then in the second half, after Slot made nine changes at the break, left-back Kostas Tsimikas was the makeshift centre-back with Ibrahima Konate for company.
Liverpool slipped to a 4-2 defeat to AC Milan in the first friendly of their two-game tour of Asia on Saturday. The Reds fell behind to a Rafa Leao goal before Dominik Szoboszlai clipped home a sublime leveller to send the teams in even at the break at the Kai Tak Stadium.
Liverpool's record signing Florian Wirtz makes his first start for his new club in a 4-2 pre-season defeat against AC Milan in Hong Kong.
Liverpool were dealt a lesson in the art of the counter-attack as they were beaten 4-2 by AC Milan in Hong Kong. The Reds, playing the first game of their pre-season tour of Asia, arrived at the Kai Tak Sports Park in good spirits after morale-bolstering wins over Preston and Stoke City in their first friendlies of the new campaign.
Milos Kerkez has been with his new Liverpool team-mates as they prepare for their first game on the Far East tour against AC Milan on Saturday.