Liverpool’s pre-season preparations suffered a minor blip after they could only muster a 1-1 draw against a Malaysia XI side at the Bukit Jalil Stadium. Patrick Wleh used his tremendous upper body strength to out-muscle the Liverpool defence before firing a powerful shot past Adam Bogdan, handing Malaysia XI a 1-0 lead.
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Teixeira spent last season on loan at Championship side Brighton and scored six goals in 35 appearances before his campaign was cut short by a broken leg.
However, despite a number of other opportunities, Liverpool failed to find the net again.
Liverpool takes on the Malaysia all star team on Friday, July 24, 2015 in continuation of their preseason games.
As the Liverpool forward line continued to struggle, Ronaldinho’s lack of match action became apparent when he exited following treatment for cramp after the hour.
His finish was worthy of his namesake as he poked the ball past Adam Bogdan with the outside of his right boot.
There was nearly an instant response from the Reds after Milner and skipper Jordan Henderson combined well before the latter flashed a ball across the face of goal, just out of reach of the onrushing Origi.
Liverpool were not behind for long, Ibe cutting inside with a clever shimmy before rifling a strike into the top right-hand corner.
The winger had the beating of his man all game, going past him on the inside or the outside at will. Dejan Lovren could have leveled the score on the 17th minute mark, but his header was unfortunately wide off target.
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That’s Ibe and Mamadou Sakho getting to work in a branch of Subway in Malaysia yesterday.
