AC Milan used their counter-attacking menace to undo Liverpool as they earned a 4-2 pleasant win in Hong Kong on Saturday.
Milan began brightly, and Rafael Leao discovered the breakthrough on the counter 12 minutes in, shifting it previous Virgil van Dijk earlier than firing previous Alisson.
Liverpool grew into the sport and equalised within the twenty sixth minute as Rio Ngumoha teed up Dominik Szoboszlai on the nook of the field to bend his shot into the highest nook.
Nonetheless, Milan struck a double blow within the first quarter-hour of the second half. Ruben Loftus-Cheek offered Milos Kerkez a dummy within the field earlier than coolly slotting into the underside nook previous Giorgi Mamardashvili.
Noah Okafor then added Milan’s third within the 59th minute from one other lightning break. Alexis Saelemaekers performed it low to the Switzerland worldwide, who calmly completed.
Ryan Gravenberch, the one Liverpool participant to not be substituted at half-time, got here inside inches of pulling one again as he smacked the woodwork with a long-range strike moments later.
Cody Gakpo, who had seen a tight-angled effort tipped over, despatched a looping header over Pietro Terracciano to make it 3-2 in stoppage time, however as a substitute of getting an equaliser, Liverpool ended on a disappointing word.
Kostas Tsimikas tried to play the ball again to Mamardashvili, who was out of his field, and solely succeeded in teeing up Okafor, who raced previous the goalkeeper to knock a tap-in into the empty internet.
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Information Debrief: Liverpool’s assault falters
New signing Hugo Ekitike was not in Liverpool’s squad, and so they had been additionally lacking Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz, who’ve each been linked with strikes away.
Liverpool weren’t wanting possibilities, having 18 makes an attempt, seven of which had been heading in the right direction, although they solely generated 1.17 anticipated targets (xG).
They struggled towards Milan’s counter-attack, although they had been additionally down a defender after Joe Gomez was pressured to fly residence injured.
Milan had 10 photographs and eight heading in the right direction, from which they scored 4. Additionally they bettered the Reds’ xG, accumulating 2.12.