A stunning goal by Preston North End defeated Liverpool in a behind-closed-doors friendly which took place at the AXA training centre.
A few players of the senior team and the majority of the academy players were involved in the match against Preston.
Liverpool Suffer Defeat In Friendly Against Preston
Robbie Brady stunned Liverpool with a 40-yard screamer, leading to a defeat in Arne Slot’s first game.
The Reds dominated the whole game but failed to score an equalizer. First-team players like Mo Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai, Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliot, and Wataru Endo were all involved in the game.
Manager Arne Slot on the game:
“After two weeks of tough training sessions it’s important to play a game as well.
The most important thing is that everybody was fit before the game and they stayed fit during the game as well.
So, it’s been a good two weeks.Unfortunately the result today was not what we wanted, but they stayed fit, many of them got minutes [and] also a lot of young players got a few minutes so that was a good thing.
Like I said, we controlled the game completely, we only conceded one shot. The bad thing about it was that that shot went in, [it was] a great goal, though. We had some good build-up moments, had some good chances in the first half as well.
Second half, I didn’t think we created that much, which is normal because there were a lot of young players in the team who didn’t play in their own positions sometimes as well.
So, we couldn’t have asked for more from the boys in the first two weeks – [they have] worked really hard, tried to implement ideas and it’s not that we only bring new ideas. There are a lot of things that have been done here that were really good.”
Liverpool Players Involved
First half: Jaros, Bradley, Van den Berg, Quansah, Tsimikas, Jones, Elliott, Szoboszlai (Endo, 33), Doak, Salah, Carvalho.
Second half: Davies, Stephenson, Nallo, Phillips, Chambers (Beck, 75), Endo (Nyoni, 75), Bajcetic, Morton, McConnell, Koumas (Blair, 75), Gordon.
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