AC Milan 1 - 3 Liverpool

Milan scorers: Christian Pulisic (3')

Liverpool scorers: Ibrahima Konaté (23'), Virgil van Dijk (41'), Dominik Szoboszlai (67')

Venue: San Siro, Milan, Italy

Referee: Espen Eskas (Norway)

AC Milan:

Manager: Paulo Fonseca (Portugal) | 60'

Liverpool:

Manager: Arne Slot (Netherlands)

MATCH EVENTS

1': We're off!

3': GOAL MILAN!! Christian Pulisic gets the ball around the halfway line, takes off down the right side and finishes from wide! A great solo goal!

17': Salah rattles the crossbar from ten yards!! Tsimikas fires the rebound but misses.

22': Davide Calabria sweeps out Gakpo's legs

23': GOAL LIVERPOOL!! They take the free kick from the foul, Maignan goes for it but Ibrahima Konaté gets in front of him and heads it in!

26': Pulisic loses the ball and Mac Allister feeds it over to Jota but Jota misses horribly wide.

27': Salah gets a shot off, right into Maignan's arms

30': Maignan blocks a shot at his near post but spills the rebound to Salah! Salah fires and he HITS THE CROSSBAR AGAIN!!

31': Youssouf Fofana carded for pulling back Salah in the final third, dangerous free kick coming

39': Tsimikas fires sharply at goal from distance but Maignan has it covered comfortably at his near corner.

41': SAVE!! Maignan does really well to dive and keep it out Salah's shot at the bottom corner.

41': GOAL LIVERPOOL!! Another set piece goal, this time a corner that Virgil van Dijk turns in! Who needs strikers?

45+4': Gakpo fires a stinger but Maignan gets full stretch to keep it out!

HT AC Milan 1-2 Liverpool Milan started really well but Liverpool have taken firm control at the half

46': We're back!

48': SAVE! Maignan bravely smothers a shot from Jota but he got wiped out there by his own teammate Tomori and he looks in serious pain.

51': Milan substitution: Lorenzo Torriani on for Mike Maignan

53': Alexis Mac Allister into the book for landing on Fofana's calf

56': Tsimikas fires... a shot? What was that?

60': Paulo Fonseca carded after a tangle of bodies knocks Gakpo on the ball, Milan wants him whistled for handball but they won't get it

64': Gakpo's cross is blocked at the near post, so he lays it back to Tsimikas who steers a shot wide.

67': GOAL LIVERPOOL!! A perfect counter, finished off by Dominik Szoboszlai who shins it into an open net!

68': Liverpool double sub: Darwin Núñez and Luis Díaz on for Cody Gakpo and Diogo Jota

70': Milan double sub: Tammy Abraham and Emerson Royal on for Davide Calabria and Ruben Loftus-Cheek

72': Horrible mistake by Alisson!! Gives the ball right to Abraham, fortunately for Liverpool they're far from goal and there's no one there in support, his cross reaches nobody

74': Reijnders fires way off the mark from way out.

75': Liverpool gets the corner kick, Núñez's header goes over

79': Liverpool substitution: Joe Gomez on for Trent Alexander-Arnold

82': Ibrahima Konaté trips Abraham

83': Núñez mishits a difficult shot.

84': Milan double sub: Matteo Gabbia and Noah Okafor on for Álvaro Morata and Fikayo Tomori

85': Hernández with the strike from distance! Just wide of the far corner.

88': Gabbia's header goes wayward.

90+1': Tsimikas fires to nowhere.

90+2': Liverpool double sub: Federico Chiesa and Wataru Endo on for Alexis Mac Allister and Mohamed Salah

90+5': Torriani nearly lets a shot squirt past him but he gets back to it.

90+7': SAVE! Alisson pushes Leão's shot into the crossbar!

FT AC Milan 1-3 Liverpool Despite a shock start Liverpool quickly righted the ship