Liverpool shut out their pre-season marketing campaign at present with two friendlies towards Cesc Fabregas’s Como.
The Merseysiders first face the Italians at 11.30am – a 35-minute-a-half sport behind closed doorways on the AXA Coaching Centre – earlier than the second match takes place this night at 6pm in entrance of supporters at Anfield.
The 2 fixtures will allow new Liverpool boss Andoni Iraola to get a have a look at all his squad gamers forward of subsequent week’s Premier League opener at Newcastle.
Como arrive on the again of one other encouraging efficiency in midweek once they drew 1-1 at Arsenal earlier than dropping a penalty shoot-out.
Fabregas has overseen two wins and three attracts through the summer season, along with his aspect scoring and conceding in each pleasant.
LIVERPOOL TEAM NEWS
Liverpool stay with out Joe Gomez (muscle), Giovanni Leoni (ACL), Jayden Danns (thigh), Hugo Ekitike (Achilles) and Conor Bradley (knee).
Argentina midfielder Alexis Mac Allister will get his first minutes of pre-season.
Liverpool: Mamardashvili; Ramsay, Endo, Chambers, Tsimikas; Mac Allister, Nyoni, McConnell, Elliott; Munoz, Chiesa
Liverpool substitutes: Davies, Koumas, Morrison, Ndiaye, Wright, Sonni-Lambie, Pitt
COMO TEAM NEWS
Como: To observe
Como substitutes: to observe
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- Liverpool’s solely defeat throughout 2025/26 pre-season was towards an Italian aspect, dropping 4-2 to Milan in Kowloon, the place Dominik Szoboszlai and Cody Gakpo scored for the Reds
- Szoboszlai’s 88th-minute penalty gave them victory of their solely aggressive assembly with an Italian membership final season, successful 1-0 at Inter through the league section of the Champions League
- That was Liverpool’s fourth successive win in aggressive matches towards Italian groups, following up a 2-0 dwelling victory over Bologna and 3-1 away defeat of Milan through the league section in 2023/24
- Their first sport on that run was a 1-0 win at Atalanta within the 2023/24 Europa League quarter-finals, though their previous 3-0 defeat to La Dea at Anfield meant they exited on combination
- Towards Italian golf equipment, Liverpool’s aggressive file is W20 D6 L18, with none of their final 22 such matches ending 0-0 since visiting Napoli through the Europa League group stage in October 2010
- Their draw at Arsenal was Como’s first 2026/27 pre-season away pleasant, having performed 4 earlier warm-up video games at dwelling with a mean of greater than three objectives per sport
- They traded the lead with Paris FC in a 2-2 draw, got here from behind to beat Al-Ula 3-1 and misplaced on penalties after a 1-1 draw with Villarreal in July, then shared three objectives through the first 12 minutes with Famalicao on their solution to a 3-2 victory
- Como had the third-best away file in Serie A final season, with solely Inter and Milan taking extra factors and successful extra video games on the highway
- Fabregas gained the FA Cup in 2005 and reached the 2006 Champions League and 2007 EFL Cup finals throughout his time as an Arsenal midfielder between 2003 and 2011
- Now 39, Fabregas switched from Barcelona’s to Arsenal’s academy in 2003 and was their Participant of the Season in 2007 and 2010
