Jurgen Kopp has expressed his satisfaction following the impressive display of Luis Diaz during Liverpool’s pre-season games.
Diaz has been in fine form for the Reds, scoring twice in four matches as they suffered their first defeat in pre-season against Bayern Munich on Wednesday in Singapore as Liverpool rounded off their Asian tour.
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A lovely, lovely goal from Lucho ⚽ pic.twitter.com/mi70a8HUpW
The 26-year-old climbed off the bench to score Liverpool’s third goal of the game but late strikes from Josip Stanisic and Frans Kratzig consigned the Reds to defeat at the Singapore National Stadium.
“Pre-season is massive for everybody, and for Lucho especially. You could say today it was really hard. I thought we played super in the first 10 minutes or so and then we were really in the game, bam, bam, bam, everything was clicking and then you could see the players probably had a look at the watch and thought, ‘It’s only 10 minutes, feels like an hour and 50.’ And that’s obviously the moment in the pre-season where it’s clear” Klopp said.
“We had two camps in a row now, this is the last day of the camp; the most important information of all possible information is nobody got hurt. I think both teams see it exactly the same, that’s really cool.
“We did a lot of things in the physical aspect of the game today; it was a super-important session as well, to get through this. And yes, Luis is no shadow of a doubt.
“We scored really good goals in the first half as well – so, Diogo’s pass and quick awareness and reaction to Cody, fantastic. We had a lot of really good, good moments where we showed what is possible. But in other moments – that’s how it is, and it’s good because we will not be as tired during the season like we were today – there will obviously be moments where we feel the intensity and then you have to still make the right decisions.
“And for that feeling that you get punished when you don’t do that, that’s part of the pre-season experience as well. And that’s why maybe if you give me another hour then I will see it as a really good lesson and maybe I will be even happy that we made the mistakes today and not in 10 days. But in the moment I still work on that.”
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