Milan 1-3 Liverpool: Slot proves point, Trent locks down Leao

Liverpool kicked off their Champions League campaign in impressive fashion as they won in Italy.

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Liverpool kicked off their Champions League campaign with an impressive 3-1 victory over Milan in Italy.

The Reds were left shell-shocked when they fell behind to an excellent Christian Pulisic finish after just three minutes.

But they scored twice from set-pieces to level things up before the half-time break, Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk heading home.

And, after Mohamed Salah had twice hit the woodwork, an important win was secured by Dominik Szoboszlai’s strike on the counter.

Read on for the major talking points from the game…

Important victory for Slot

Until a new manager wins in different ways, the nagging doubt that they might be incapable of doing so will always exist among supporters.

And so for Arne Slot, this evening’s match provided much-needed evidence that he can both do it in the Champions League, and when his team has conceded the first goal.

Despite having made a shaky start punctuated by Pulisic’s opener, the Reds went on to utterly dominate proceedings.

Strong in defence and threatening going forward, they racked up 23 shots, 2.77 xG and conceded just eight and 0.54 respectively

It was the sort of result and performance that will bolster the supporters’ faith in Slot, and boost a collective confidence that had no doubt been knocked by defeat to Nottingham Forest.

With all that considered, we could well end up looking back at this as important night in Slot’s Liverpool career.