Christian Pulisic Paulo Fonseca Virgil Van-Dijk Inter Milan Dominik Szoboszlai Mike Maignan France Italy Liverpool Christian Pulisic Paulo Fonseca Virgil Van-Dijk Inter Milan Dominik Szoboszlai Mike Maignan France Italy Liverpool

Stylish Liverpool strut past Milan in confident Champions league opener

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Liverpool strutted to a 3-1 win at AC Milan on Tuesday as the Reds got their campaign in the revamped Champions League off to a stylish start.Arne Slot’s team reacted superbly to going behind to an early Christian Pulisic goal and ended up cruising to the three points thanks to strikes from Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Dominik Szoboszlai.Fashion Week got underway in Milan on Tuesday and it was the away team who made all of the slick moves at the San Siro in a clash of European football royalty.Liverpool and Milan have been crowned continental kings 13 times and have beaten each other in Champions League finals but the Reds were a class above and could easily have won by more had the woodwork not twice denied Mohamed Salah in the first half.For Liverpool it was a return to perfect form after falling to a shock home defeat to Nottingham Forest at the weekend while Milan again struggled under new coach Paulo Fonseca ahead of Sunday’s Milan derby.Fonseca has failed to convince Milan supporters, a large number of whom stayed away on Tuesday night with fewer than 60,000 turning up for their team’s highest profile fixture of the new league phase of Europe’s top club competition.And Milan will likely have to face Italian champions Inter Milan, who take on Manchester City on Wednesday, without France goalkeeper Mike Maignan who limped off with a knee injury early in the second half.Milan fans put up a giant display which read “fearless” before kick-off and the hosts tore straight into Liverpool, Virgil van Dijk desperately clearing Tijjani Reijnders low cross.And Pulisic quickly had Milan ahead with his super low finish, punishing Liverpool’s dawdling defence after being brilliantly sent scurrying towards goal by Alvaro

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