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Mane nets as Reds rout Barca
- Updated: August 6, 2016
Sadio Mane scored his first Liverpool goal as Jurgen Klopp’s side beat Barcelona 4-0 at Wembley Stadium in their final International Champions Cup match on Saturday.
The Senegal winger opened the scoring after just a quarter of an hour in front of 89,845 fans, the second-largest attendance at the new Wembley, against a Barcelona team with both Luis Suarez – against his old team – and Lionel Messi up front.
However, the match was over as a contest when the Reds scored twice early in the second period via a Javier Mascherano own goal and a fine finish by substitute Divock Origi, before Marko Grujic’s late strike rounded off the scoring.
Klopp suffered a blow before kick-off with the news that striker Daniel Sturridge was out with a minor hip injury that must now threaten his participation in their Premier League opener against Arsenal at the Emirates a week on Sunday.
The German, meanwhile, also opted to field midfielder James Milner as a makeshift left back, despite the fact first-choice Alberto Moreno was on the substitutes’ bench after recovering from a recent hamstring problem.
That experiment, though, only lasted 42 minutes before the Reds’ skipper was forced off with a heel injury that must also make his involvement against the Gunners next weekend in doubt.
However, in baking conditions at the home of football, it was Liverpool who made the better start of the two, with recent new £25m signing from Newcastle United, Georginio Wijnaldum, going close to …
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