Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana has hailed Sadio Mane’s impact after their stunning 4-0 victory over Barcelona.
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“I also knew that we would have to play with two different teams otherwise it wouldn’t work”.
“It’s a friendly game and I don’t want to overestimate this game but it’s still good for us”.
And this season the Premier League looks set to become tougher, with both Manchester clubs, as well as Chelsea and Arsenal all spending big this summer.
Liverpool and Barcelona meet in an International Champion Cup game at Wembley on Saturday.
Jurgen Klopp has warned Liverpool not to get ahead of themselves in their expectations for this season after beating Barcelona 4-0 before crashing to a defeat by the same scoreline at Mainz a day later.
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Goals from Sadio Mane, Divock Origi, Marko Grujic and an own goal from Javier Mascherano secured this impressive friendly win for the reds.
“We are in a good way”, he said.
The Senegal worldwide brings lightning pace and an eye for goal to the Liverpool team and manager Jurgen Klopp will looking for Mane to come up big when the Premier League season kicks off at the weekend against Arsenal and Lallana -formerly of Southampton himself – thinks his boss has signed a real gem. “We can’t change or decide the season in one game, but we will be ready”.
Liverpool, a five-time European champion, always loves its European nights but the team’s failure to qualify for continental competition this season may well turn out to be a blessing.
The English Premier League (EPL) club completed their ICC commitments against the Spanish giants, and manager Jurgen Klopp’s team treated the sell-out crowd to an exciting, fluent display.
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And Lallana claims Mane’s unpredictability could make him Liverpool’s most lethal weapon. “He’s come in, as you’ve seen him, in the pre-season games and he’s sharp. It is important to defend in one-on-one situations and you can not do that if the formation is not good”, Klopp said.
