Jürgen Klopp was encouraged by Liverpool’s second-half performance in beating Manchester City 2-1 in New Jersey.
The Reds came from a goal behind to defeat their Premier League rivals at the MetLife Stadium in their International Champions Cup clash.
Leroy Sane’s opener after the break was levelled by the returning Mohamed Salah within a minute of the Egyptian taking to the field as a substitute, and the hugely impressive Sadio Mane won it for Klopp’s team with a 94th-minute penalty.
Read on for a summary of the manager’s post-match press conference.
On his assessment of the game…
The second half pleased me; the first half I was not so pleased with, how you can imagine. Pre-season is a really strange period. It’s so important. On the other hand, you constantly play football you don’t want to see because the legs are heavy and it’s really difficult for the boys. You see how they react in a different way to all the sessions we do. In the first half there were obviously a lot of big legs, they were tired kind of. You could see it; no freshness, nothing. Then the problem is of course, the formation usually is good for playing football but you need depth in your game. We didn’t have that, we didn’t offer it one time. You saw the difference already when Sadio came on. Now you can prepare direction, you can play balls in behind, which makes life difficult for the opponent. So, with this and then all the other changes after 60 minutes, bringing in fresh legs and obviously a lot of desire to play football, we changed the game. So I’m happy with the second half. On the other hand, physical-wise it was important that a lot of players could play 60 minutes for the first time, in difficult circumstances again.
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