Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says that his side should compete for trophies during the 2016 season.
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“It is important to defend in one-on-one situations and you can not do that if the formation is not good”, Klopp asserted.
Crystal Palace beat Valencia 3-1 at Selhurst Park, Hull lost 2-1 to Torino in Salzburg, while Watford squandered a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Lorient at Vicarage Road after Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo had scored for the Hornets.
The morning started off rough for many of us.
Along with fellow pre-season signing Sadio Mane, Wijnaldum is expected to give Liverpool added verve and quality not only in the transitional phase, but also in front of goal.
Klopp is heading into his first full season at Anfield after an inconsistent but encouraging seven months last campaign, when he took over from the fired Brendan Rodgers and took Liverpool to the finals of the League Cup and Europa League, losing both.
Rarely can such a thing be said about pre-season games but Liverpool will remember their performance against Barcelona on Saturday for some time.
A lesson that has been plaguing Liverpool for ages, it seems, as their own mentalities during matches has seemed to be their downfall time and again. After the first goal we had chances, but then we let in two quick goals and that was the match.
“Of course, we should not lose 4-0 but it happened and we can work with it”.
“Hopefully tomorrow different players play like we did today”. You saw all those different parts against Barcelona but I saw them all in his first sessions. I could see what he was going to bring to this team.
“Some had to play in both games and they looked more exhausted than the others”.
Mane had a particulary impressive game, scoring one and setting up another goal. “We have a few more players than you can bring in a line-up, that’s true, but we already have a few injuries in positions that are not too good for us”, Klopp admitted.
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“We know we have to fight and I know we will be ready, but by the end I don’t know where we will be”.
