Team news: Milan were without Theo Hernández and Olivier Giroud who had a World Cup final coming up, as well as without Mike Maignan, Fikayo Tomori, Simon Kjær, Sergiño Dest, Fodé Ballo-Touré, Davide Calabria, Alessandro Florenzi, Junior Messias, Brahim Díaz, Divock Origi, Rafael Leão, Charles De Ketelaere and Zlatan Ibrahimović. Kickoff time was 16:30 CET.
Goals: Salah (5′), Saelemaekers (29′), Thiago (41′), Núñez (82′, 89′)
Penalty shootout: Tsimikas (L) missed, Bennacer (M) goal, Keïta (L) missed, Bakayoko (M) goal, Carvalho (L) goal, Adli (M) missed, Clark (L) goal, El Hilali (M) goal, Núñez (L) goal, Kalulu (M) goal.
Liverpool F.C. (4-3-3) – Jürgen Klopp
Caoimhín Kelleher (59′ Adrián); James Milner (59′ Melkamu Frauendorf), Joël Matip (66′ Nat Phillips), Joe Gomez (83′ Jarell Quansah), Andrew Robertson (59′ Konstantinos Tsimikas); Stefan Bajcetic, Thiago Alcântara (59′ Fábio Carvalho), Harvey Elliott (78′ Bobby Clark); Mohamed Salah (83′ Ben Doak), Roberto Firmino (59′ Darwin Núñez), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (59′ Naby Keïta).
Bench: Davies; Chambers; Cain, Corness.
AC Milan (4-2-3-1) – Stefano Pioli
Antonio Mirante; Pierre Kalulu, Malick Thiaw, Matteo Gabbia (72′ Jan-Carlo Simić), Tommaso Pobega (72′ Andrea Bozzolan); Rade Krunić (46′ Ismaël Bennacer), Sandro Tonali (46′ Aster Vranckx); Alexis Saelemaekers (72′ Tiémoué Bakayoko), Yacine Adli, Ante Rebić (56′ Youns El Hilali); Marko Lazetić (85′ Adam Bakoune).
Bench: Jungdal, Tătăruşanu
Referee: Omar Mohamed Al Ali (EAU).
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