Slot guided Liverpool to a resounding 3-1 victory over Fonseca’s Milan at San Siro, as his team remained easy after a shaky birth, storming support after conceding a plot within the opening three minutes.
Reuters
18 September, 2024, 05:30 am
Remaining modified: 18 September, 2024, 05:42 am
On a evening that seen Liverpool’s Arne Slot and AC Milan’s Paulo Fonseca every seize the managerial reins in a Champions League game with their unusual groups for the first time, their experiences would maybe well not had been extra assorted.
Slot guided Liverpool to a resounding 3-1 victory over Fonseca’s Milan at San Siro, as his team remained easy after a shaky birth, storming support after conceding a plot within the opening three minutes.
“To attain support so stable and dominant, it used to be a deserved victory,” talked about Slot, who changed retired supervisor Juergen Klopp at the Merseyside club. “Right here’s an evening I will keep in mind within the long speed. Confidently many extra instances like this is in a position to attain as Liverpool supervisor.”
Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Dominik Szoboszlai scored for Liverpool after Christian Pulisic capitalised on some disorganised defending by the Reds for Milan’s lone plot.
“When minute print are missing we are in a position to comprise complications doing what we put collectively in training, Liverpool are extra of a team than us, we need to work to play with out complications for 70/80 minutes.”
Requested about conceding nearly the same targets from two centre backs — Konate and Van Dijk — Fonseca talked about: “For the first plot we had a man on Van Dijk, we had ready this. He used to be free, it be gorgeous, but the central defenders had to be curious about particular person marking.”
The two managers comprise had wildly assorted starts to their respective leagues this season as nicely, with Slot’s men a hit their first three video games earlier than a shock 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest on Saturday to sit down down fourth within the Premier League.
AC Milan sit tenth within the Serie A desk with one net in four video games.
