{"id":1548,"date":"2024-09-18T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2024-09-18T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T03:41:14","slug":"phoenix-rampage-liverpool-complete-easy-comeback-with-dominant-performance-as-three-times-more-shots-over-ac-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"PHOENIX RAMPAGE: Liverpool complete easy comeback with \u2018dominant\u2019 performance as three times more shots over AC Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOBODY could have blamed boss Arne Slot for thinking \u201csuits you, sir\u201d after this scintillating comeback triumph.<\/p>\n

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Early disaster turned into a San Siro stroll, Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk powering in headers to turn the game around \u2014 the first time two Liverpool central defenders have scored in a Champions League game.<\/p>\n

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Liverpool beat AC Milan with an impressive Champions League display<\/em><\/p>\n

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Liverpool won their first Champions League match under Arne Slot<\/em><\/p>\n

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Liverpool ace Ibrahima Konate equalised after AC Milan\u2019s opener<\/em><\/p>\n

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Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk turned the game around with a header<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dominik Szoboszlai sealed Liverpool\u2019s first three points in the Champions League<\/em><\/p>\n

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Liverpool have 23 shots while AC Milan just 8 shots<\/em><\/p>\n

Dominik Szoboszlai added an elegant third to help turn his manager\u2019s 46th birthday into a back-slapping celebration.<\/p>\n

It is Milan fashion week with models strutting their stuff on catwalks across the city.<\/p>\n

Slot arrived amid sudden doubts about whether he is right to be trying to give his players a makeover after succeeding Jurgen Klopp.<\/p>\n

\"Tr\u1ef1c<\/p>\n

After three straight wins without conceding a goal to start his reign the Kop \u2014 yet to fully throw its voice behind him \u2014 were asking serious questions.<\/p>\n

Yet while Slot wants less of the attacking chaos of Klopp\u2019s regime and more control, this was more like a throwback to the German\u2019s heavy metal vibes<\/p>\n

Although the night could hardly have got off to a worse start for him<\/p>\n

He made two changes following the Forest defeat, Cody Gakpo in for Luis Diaz and Kostas Tsimikas replacing Andy Robertson. By the third minute the Greek left-back will have wished his boss had not bothered as Milan took the lead.<\/p>\n

He was left stranded by a lighting raid down his flank, ignited by Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan.<\/p>\n

His quick clearance was pounced up by Christian Pulisic, with two team-mates powering alongside him.<\/p>\n

Konate panicked and was drawn out of position while Pulisic, one of four former Chelsea players in Paulo Fonseca\u2019s line-up charged inside.<\/p>\n

Before Alisson knew what had hit him the American attacker had fired across the goal and into the far corner.<\/p>\n

Pulisic was joined in celebration by his ex\u2013 Stamford Bridge team-mates Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Alvaro Morata and Fikayo Tomori while the stadium\u2019s famous Curva Sud went wild.<\/p>\n

Slot and his team had the blues at the point for they were all over the place and their near-4,400 travelling fans, stuck high up in the gods, were fretting once again.<\/p>\n

But gradually Liverpool gained a foothold in the game, encouraged by centre-half Strahinja Pavlovic who made a pig\u2019s ear of playing out from the back.<\/p>\n

His side survived as Slot\u2019s men swarmed but they were still level by the 23rd minute and the equaliser could not have been simpler either.<\/p>\n

Trent Alexander-Arnold clipped in a free-kick from the left, up leapt Konate and completely unguarded headed home. Suddenly Slot\u2019s men were in business again, the kind that had produced that stunning three-game start to the season.<\/p>\n

Diogo Jota tore into the box and sent a right footer wide when he should at least have tested Maignan.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah hit the woodwork with a reflex strike and soon after, slightly off balance, another effort cracked off the junction of bar and post.<\/p>\n

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Seven-time Champions League winners Liverpool faced six, but it was the Reds who were regaining their rhythm and, most importantly, their confidence.<\/p>\n

Jota moved away to look for Salah. This time, Anfield\u2019s Egyptian King displayed even more grandeur, causing Maignan to tremble. However, Tsimikas cut the corner in from the right, and Van Dijk nodded in to give Liverpool the lead at 41 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Seconds before the break it would have been three but for Maignan brilliantly turning aside a real bullet from Gakpo.<\/p>\n

Frenchman Maignan was forced off after a nasty collision with Tomori as Jota swooped in for the kill.<\/p>\n

Liverpool finished the showdown with 23 shots \u2014 11 on target \u2014 and two of those against the woodwork.<\/p>\n

And just to underline their superiority, Szoboszlai contributed a gliding finish in the 67th minute in the victory that was first about substance but in the end was about real style, Slot\u2019s or not.<\/p>\n

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