Liverpool used the core of Mo Salah, Soboszlai, Endo, Elliott to play an hour and crush Real Betis 1-0 at Acrichia Stadium. It was their first pre-season victory in the United States before facing Arsenal on August 1. Arne Slot, Liverpool’s new Dutch coach, has not yet added any reinforcements to his squad, and the 28-man squad is still without many Euro-Copa America players, including Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz, Alisson Becker, Alexis Mac Allister, Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Cody Gakpo, Diogo Jota, Ibrahima Konate, and Ryan Gravenberch, as well as Andrew Robertson, who is injured. However, Hungarian midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah are still leading the squad.
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Player list
Liverpool (4-3-3): Caoimhin Kelleher, Conor Bradley, Jarrell Quansah, Sepp van den Berg, Kostas Tsimikas, Curtis Jones, Wataru Endo, Dominic Soboszlai, Harvey Elliott, Mohamed Salah, Fabio Carvalho
Real Betis (4-4-1-1): Adrian, Yussuf Sabali, Diego Llorente, Noble Mendy, Romain Perraud, Juanmi, William Carvalho, Sergi Ultimira, Pablo Fornals, Nabil Fekir, Marcos Fernandez
Match Overview
While Betis coach Manuel Pellegrini sent former Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian, who was just acquired on a free, to guard the goal against his old team, sending the mainstays of Diego Llorente, William Carvalho, Pablo Fornals and Nabil Fekir to start from the beginning of the game. In the first half, Liverpool dominated the ball possession but still could not score until the 30th minute. The “Reds” had to replace Curtis Jones who was injured with Trey Nyoni.
In the 34th minute, Liverpool took the lead when Trey Nyoni got the ball and found a chance to pass it long to Soboslai who got the ball and passed it to the right for Mo Salah who dribbled to the edge of the penalty area and passed it into the frame for Soboslai to run in and shoot into the net decisively. Later in the 38th minute, it was still a chance for the Reds. Mo Salah got the ball in the frame and passed it to Conor Bradley who followed up to shoot but it was blocked by Adrian, his former teammate who came out to close the angle quickly. In the last minute of the first half, Trey Nyoni got a chance to shoot from almost 30 yards but the ball went straight to Adrian who easily caught it, making the first half Liverpool leading 1-0.
In the second half, Liverpool Substitute Vitezslav Jarosz to guard the goal instead of Caoimhin Kelleher and Tyler Morton to replace Wataru Endo. In the 50th minute, Nabil Fekir, the Betis veteran who was once rumored to almost join the Reds, made a free kick in front of the penalty area, the ball went wide of the post with excitement. Later in the 63rd minute, the Reds changed the entire team, sending in a pack of young stars to play, including Nat Phillips, a 27-year-old towering defender, while Betis took off Fekir, Fornals and Sabali and sent in Rodri, Bellerin, a former Arsenal full-back, and Lozada instead. Later in the 78th minute, Rodri got the ball and shot in the box, but it was blocked by Vitezslav Jarosz, the Reds’ goalkeeper, who came out to close the angle well. Then, even though the Reds’ youth team was clearly inferior, they were able to maintain their lead.
The game ended with Liverpool defeating Real Betis 1-0. The next game, the Reds will meet Arsenal on August 1. Will the 19-time league champions come out victorious or will it be an Arsenal fight back? Place your bets now on these best direct betting sites in Thailand!
Don’t play with the system! Liverpool fans unhappy with Arne Slot win over Betis
Liverpool fans have expressed their concerns over new head coach Arne Slot, who has completely changed the team’s playing system in their opening friendly match, a narrow 1-0 win over Real Betis. The Dutch coach was appointed by Liverpool to replace Jurgen Klopp, who resigned after the Reds perceived his coaching style to be similar to the former German boss, who focused on pressing. In the end, the former Feyenoord coach took charge of the team in his first game in a friendly match on the American tour, where he led the team to a 1-0 victory over Real Betis, thanks to a goal by Dominik Szoboszlai. After the game, statistics were revealed that the Reds, who sent 23 players to play in the game, had 63% more possession than their opponents and had 9 shots, while the La Liga team had 7 shots.
However, The Sun revealed that what the Reds fans The worry was the skinhead boss deploying his side in a bizarre 4-2-4 formation rather than the more familiar 4-3-3 that the Anfield star was used to, with no real centre-forward, with Szoboszlai and Harvey Elliott playing as pseudo-strikers, with Mo Salah and Fabio Carvalho operating on the wings and Kostas Tsimikas and Connor Bradley providing cover from the wings.
Despite Liverpool’s imperfect form and the concerns raised by fans, Slot insisted after the game that it would not be a permanent formation for him. “We played with two number 10s but it’s because we haven’t got a centre-forward yet,” he said, referring to the fact that Liverpool are also without a number of key players back, with Harvey and Dom now playing as No 10s, so they can create from there as soon as we have a forward in place. We’ll have a slightly different system.”
The Reds are also set to welcome Uruguay and Netherlands strikers Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo, who are playing in the Copa America and Euro 2024. Slot will take charge of the team in a friendly against Arsenal in Philadelphia on Thursday morning.