Liverpool 4-1 Sevilla: Diaz nets double, Reds keep pre-season winning run going

Game is over and the final score is Liverpool 4-1 Sevilla. Here is the match report.

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30' GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Sevilla (Diogo Jota)

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39' GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Sevilla (Luis Díaz)

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66' GOAL! Liverpool 3-1 Sevilla (Peque Fernández)

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Match Report

Liverpool cruised to victory in new head coach Arne Slot's first game at Anfield as they beat Sevilla 4-1 in their final public friendly of pre-season.

The Reds face Las Palmas behind closed doors later on Sunday evening, six days before they open their Premier League campaign with a trip to newly-promoted Ipswich.

Slot's side were measured in their build-up and spritely in attack from the off. They should have been behind inside 15 minutes, though, when Stanis Idumbo seized on Jarell Quansah's mistake, but blazed over one-on-one.

Diogo Jota put them in front on the half-hour with a sublime first-time volley, before Luis Diaz also found the top right corner after cutting in off the left and firing past Orjan Nyland.

It was 3-0 at the break, with Diaz rolling his second into an empty net after Dominik Szoboszlai had raced clear and unselfishly squared for the Colombian forward.

Sevilla - who made nine changes at the break - did pull one back through Peque - but England U18 international Trey Nyoni fizzed home in front of the Kop to restore the three-goal cushion.

Mo Salah's energetic performance was almost rewarded with a goal in the final seconds of the 90, but an impressive save from Nyland prevented Liverpool from adding a fifth.

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Line-ups

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Salah, Van Dijk, Tsimikas, Jota, Alexander-Arnold, Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Luis Díaz, Gravenberch, Jarell Quansah

Subs: Joe Gomez, Marcelo Pitaluga, Vitezslav Jaros, Tyler Morton, Harvey Blair, Luca Stephenson, Stefan Bajcetic, Trey Nyoni, Amara Nallo

Sevilla XI: Nyland, Saul , Suso, Iheanacho, Pedrosa, Agoume, Kouassi, Ramón Martínez, Stanis Idumbo, Darío Benavides, Alberto Collado

Subs: Gudelj, Sow, Dodi Lukébakio, Gonzalo Montiel, Chidera Ejuke, Peque Fernández, José Ángel Carmona, Alberto Flores, Manu Bueno, Pablo Rivera