{"id":293493,"date":"2025-07-26T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293493\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:28:08","slug":"match-report-liverpool-beaten-by-ac-milan-in-hong-kong-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293493\/","title":{"rendered":"Match report: Liverpool beaten by AC Milan in Hong Kong friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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":293494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1050,1051,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,79,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-293493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-the-reds","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114920010893065982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}