Jurgen Klopp has opened up on Liverpool’s pre-season plans as he prepares his side for the new season.
The first batch of Reds returned to the AXA Training Centre on Saturday, followed by their teammates who represented their respective countries earlier in the summer on Tuesday including new signings Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai.
The Merseysiders finished last season 5th in the Premier League table and would hope to improve their position and challenge for titles in the forthcoming which kicks off in August with their first league game against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
“There is a big physical part, we cannot ignore that – and we will not. There is a big tactical part and when you do all the running stuff then you must do a lot of technical stuff as well because technique is one thing, but technique when you are slightly exhausted is a completely different thing,” Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com.
“That’s what we do. It will be intense and there will be a lot of things, but we said last year: we started the new season last season already and that’s why we work now on how we want to play, how we want to set it up, how we can be more in a different set-up, more flexible and all of these kind of things. I am really looking forward to that.
“It’s already started; if you watched training you might have seen it. There are a couple of elements that we always need because that makes no difference – whatever we play, counter-press will be a big part.
“I hope we don’t have to use it that often because I want us to keep the ball and then in the end of possession, shoot it in the back of the net! It doesn’t work always like this so for that we need to work on that, we need to work on defending, on attacking… we know our issues and that’s what we work on.
“Not with the finger in all day and saying, ‘That was not good, that was not good.’ No, we start from a specific point and from there we just go through the things again with some players who know already and other players who didn’t hear it that often. In the end, we will be good.”
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