After this thrilling comeback victory, NO ONE could have faulted boss Arne Slot for believing that “suits you, sir.”

The game turned around after an early disaster thanks to headers from Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate, who became the first Liverpool central defenders to score in a Champions League match.

Liverpool beat AC Milan with an impressive Champions League display

Liverpool won their first Champions League match under Arne Slot

Liverpool ace Ibrahima Konate equalised after AC Milan’s opener

Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk turned the game around with a header

Dominik Szoboszlai sealed Liverpool’s first three points in the Champions League

Liverpool have 23 shots while AC Milan just 8 shots

With a well-executed third goal, Dominik Szoboszlai made his manager’s 46th birthday truly celebratory.

Models are showing off their talents on catwalks throughout the city in honour of Milan fashion week.

After succeeding Jurgen Klopp, Slot was immediately questioned about whether it was right for him to desire to change his team.

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The Kop, who had not yet completely thrown their support behind him, were seriously raising doubts following three straight victories without giving up a goal to begin his reign.

However, this was more reminiscent of the German heavy metal sound, even though Slot wants more control and less of the attacking mayhem of Klopp’s rule.

Still, he couldn’t have asked for a worse start to the evening.

After Forest’s loss, he made two substitutions: Andy Robertson was replaced by Kostas Tsimikas, and Luis Diaz was replaced by Cody Gakpo. As Milan took the lead in the third minute, the Greek left-back was probably wishing his employer had not bothered.

Mike Maignan, the Milan custodian, started a lightning raid down his flank, leaving him isolated.

Christian Pulisic pounced on his swift clearing as two teammates charged in behind him.

As Pulisic, one of Paulo Fonseca’s four former Chelsea players, raced inside, Konate became frightened and moved out of position.

The American attacker shot across the goal and into the far corner before Alisson realised what had struck him.

Alvaro Morata, Fikayo Tomori, and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Pulisic’s former teammates at Stamford Bridge, joined him in joy as the stadium’s renowned Curva Sud went crazy.

Because they were everywhere and their 4,400+ travelling fans were stranded up there in the sky, worried again, Slot and his team had the blues at this point.

However, Liverpool steadily took the lead in the match thanks to center-half Strahinja Pavlovic, who made a mess of playing from the back.

His team held out as Slot’s men poured in, but by the twenty-third minute, they were tied, and it could not have been easier to equalise.

With a left-wing free kick, Trent Alexander-Arnold sprang high, found Konate, and headed home unopposed. All of a sudden, Slot’s team was back in the groove, producing that incredible three-game season opener.

When he ought to have at least tested Maignan, Diogo Jota tore into the box and blasted a right footer wide.

Mohamed Salah struck the woodwork reflexively, and then, a little unbalanced, he cracked off the bar-post junction again.

Seven-time Champions League winners Liverpool faced six, but it was the Reds who were regaining their rhythm and, most importantly, their confidence.

Jota moved away to look for Salah. This time, Anfield’s Egyptian King displayed even more grandeur, causing Maignan to tremble. However, Tsimikas cut the corner in from the right, and Van Dijk nodded in to give Liverpool the lead at 41 minutes.

Seconds before the break it would have been three but for Maignan brilliantly turning aside a real bullet from Gakpo.

Frenchman Maignan was forced off after a nasty collision with Tomori as Jota swooped in for the kill.

Liverpool finished the showdown with 23 shots — 11 on target — and two of those against the woodwork.

And just to underline their superiority, Szoboszlai contributed a gliding finish in the 67th minute in the victory that was first about substance but in the end was about real style, Slot’s or not.