And manager Klopp was dealt another blow when Milner, who was playing in Liverpool’s problem left-back position, limped off moments before half-time.
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“This game was about showing ourselves: showing how much we’ve developed, showing that we want to learn, showing that we want to execute our plan”, Origi told Goal. “We didn’t think that we were lower than Barcelona before the game and we don’t think that we’re higher than them after the game”.
Kornmayer moved to Anfield from Bayern Munich this summer and has been hard at work with Klopp’s squad as Liverpool prepare for their important Premier League opener against Arsenal at The Emirates.
Barcelona’s defeat meant that Paris Saint-Germain won the International Champions Cup friendly tournament for the second year running.
Luis Suarez was facing his old club for the first time b ut the Uruguayan was kept quiet apart from one volley which was saved by Simon Mignolet, while Lionel Messi clipped a post in the first half.
“What you saw were two teams at different stages [of pre-season], with a different amount of training sessions and matches, today I was able to give some minutes to some reserve players”.
“It definitely wasn’t our best day”, said head coach Luis Enrique.
Liverpool took quite the beating from Mainz in their final pre-season game and it is safe to say everyone not associated with the Reds were pretty pleased.
Sadio Mane opened the scoring just 15 minutes into the encounter when he slammed into the bottom corner from a neat pass from Adam Lallana. Klopp said he would undergo a scan on Sunday.
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It looked like the game would end 3-0 but deep into added-on time, Lazar Markovic produced the deftest of crosses for Marko Grujic to direct a looping header into the far corner of the net to cap off a highly encouraging performance from Klopp’s side.
