In what many pundits considered a convincing win, Darwin Nunez scored twice EPL club, Liverpool rounded off their mid-season training camp with a 4-1 win over Milan.
Nunez came off the bench to establish the comfortable victory for the Reds, who were already leading upon his introduction courtesy of goals from Mohamed Salah and Thiago Alcantara.
Milan earlier in the much anticipated match cancelled out the first Liverpool goal through Alexis Saelemaekers.
Even that couldn’t prevent the Italians finishing bottom of the Dubai Super Cup standings, with their opponents moving up to third behind Lyon and Arsenal.
Liverpool’s main lessons from Al Maktoum Stadium will be the confidence boost of four goals and a strong performance ahead of next Thursday’s League Cup trip to Manchester City.
Nunez receives much-needed boost.
If there is one player who Liverpool would have most regretted losing to the World Cup, Nunez was surely it.
After a mixed start to his Anfield career, the Uruguayan had scored seven goals in 10 appearances prior to the break, and was starting to look like a player well worth the ÂŁ85m fee paid to Benfica.
As such, heading to Qatar to endure three goalless games that returned two defeats and a draw did not feel like the ideal next step in terms of maintaining his confidence.
Fortunately, the 23-year-old showed no signs of that brief stint with his country affecting him here, coolly taking his two goals to effectively pick up where he left off.
