With Darwin Nunez nursing an injury – and probably on the way out – and Hugo Ekitike not yet ready to play, Arne Slot was left to field dual No. 10’s in Florian Wirtz and Harvey Elliott. Wirtz was fantastic, and this is clearly an option Slot likes to deploy at times. But it was blatant that Liverpool were missing a focal point.

LIVERPOOL suffered their first defeat of pre-season as they were run ragged by AC Milan in Hong Kong. To make matters worse, Arne Slot’s side conceded a comical 94th-minute goal to compound