Liverpool player ratings from Wrexham win as Dominik Szoboszlai and surprise star shine
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SportFootballLiverpool FCLiverpool player ratings from Yankee Stadium as the Reds beat Wrexham in New YorkAndoni Iraola made it back-to-back pre-season victories as Liverpool beat Wrexham 1-0 at New York's iconic Yankee Stadium.Second-half substitute Rio Ngumoha scored the only goal of the game when his effort looped up off Wrexham defender Lewis Brunt before beating goalkeeper Danny Ward.As is the custom, Iraola used the full range of his squad in New York and made sweeping changes at various points to give as many players as he could minutes.Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak and Ryan Gravenberch all remained in Chicago to continue building their fitness while Federico Chiesa missed out through illness and Jeremy Jacquet was also absent.Liverpool will now conclude their pre-season tour of the United States with a game against Leeds United at Chicago's Soldier Field on Sunday.The ECHO was at Yankee Stadium to run the rule over proceedings. All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageGIORGI MAMARDASHVILI - 7Was alert to deny a threatening Wrexham chance by racing off his line and made a good save to deny Smith before the offside flag was raised.CALVIN RAMSAY - 6Struggled to support Josh Abe offensively but didn't do too much wrong defensively.IFEANYI NDUKWE - 7Giant Austrian is a man mountain at just 18 and won his fair share of battles and headers during this cameo.
Didn't do a whole lot wrong.RIO NGUMOHA - 7Playing on the right side, he started slowly on the opposite flank to where he made his name but scored the opener with a deflected effort.JAMES MCCONNELL - 6Kept things ticking over in midfield and was always trying to be progressive with his passing.JEREMIE FRIMPONG - 6Got forward as often as he could on that right side but wasn't as productive with his crossing as he would have liked.WILL WRIGHT - 6Always willing to get physical with the Wrexham defence and pressed and harried out of possession. Still waiting to really see what he can do this pre-season though.HARVEY DAVIES - 6Didn't have too much to do after his introduction for Mamardashvili.MOR TALLA NDIAYE - 6Another young defender who looks impressive in size.
Wasn't involved as much as he would have liked.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE! All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pagePaul GorstPaul Gorst is the Liverpool ECHO's Liverpool FC correspondent and brings readers the inside track on all matters Anfield day in, day out.