Milan fumbled the ideal start to their Champions League opener with Christian Pulisic, collapsing to a 3-1 home defeat against Liverpool with a new Mike Maignan injury scare.
The Rossoneri had struggled so far under new coach Paulo Fonseca, but were boosted by a 4-0 victory over Venezia on Saturday and the return of Alvaro Morata, Fikayo Tomori and Davide Calabria from injury. Malick Thiaw, Ismael Bennacer, Alessandro Florenzi and Marco Sportiello were still out of action. Liverpool won their first three matches under Arne Slot, but lost to Nottingham Forest at the weekend and made changes.
The Reds wore black armbands after one of their fans was killed in a car accident in Bergamo this morning on his way to the game.
See how the game unfolded on the Liveblog.
After the offside trap caught out Tijjani Reijnders, Milan took the lead within three minutes when Christian Pulisic completed a give and go with Morata to sprint down the right and place the angled drive beyond Alisson Becker.
Mike Maignan had treatment on his right knee, but was able to continue, while Mo Salah was unlucky not to equalise on 17 minutes when smashing a right-foot strike against the crossbar.
It was a warning and Liverpool equalised when Ibrahima Konaté jumped for a glancing header on the Trent Alexander-Arnold free kick, Maignan getting the timing all wrong on his attempted punch.
Diogo Jota failed to make the most of a Pulisic error by firing wide of the near post, then Maignan parried the Gakpo angled drive and was rescued by the crossbar again on the Salah follow-up.
Maignan got down to palm a Salah counter-attack round the base of the upright, but Liverpool were dominating after that bright Milan start and turned the game around. It was an almost identical goal to the first, a Kostas Tsimikas corner finding Virgil van Dijk’s relatively free header after shaking off Reijnders.
