Liverpool did have the ball in the back of the net when Mane pressured goalkeeper Joel Coleman into a mistake, but the referee adjudged that the Senegal global committed a foul. “The first half we should have scored more”, added Klopp.
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“They [Huddersfield] changed a lot, they had two good teams”. “You can see the games, we haven’t played too often together but we have had a few good situations, some good passing and some good movement”. “I know I’m in the twilight, I know I’m coming to the end pretty soon”.
Wagner joked after the game, musing whether the device may have been Klopp’s scouts doing some last minute research on his team.
The Liverpool striker suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in Jurgen Klopp’s first training session last October, ruling out the England worldwide for the remainder of the campaign after a promising start to life at Anfield during which he scored two goals in six Premier League appearances.
One or two more new inclusions might happen, but plenty are still expected to leave the club including the likes of Joe Allen, Luis Alberto and Mario Balotelli, where Lazar Markovic and Christian Benteke’s future is hanging by a thread. “We will always have a team that is ready”.
Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Jordan Henderson returned to the squad following their exploits during England’s dismal Euro 2016 campaign.
The Reds boss revealed that the players coming back from worldwide duty have “only had three weeks off” and “should have trained the last eight or nine days already on their own”.
In what appears to be a full-on twenty-four hours for Klopp’s men, they took to the field in Huddersfield before jetting off for their tour of the United States. And it will be interesting as much as anything to see how the manager views some of his new signings; how he fits them into his existing squad.
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He told the club’s official website: “It’s my first experience [of playing a match over there]”.
