By Daily Sports on August 5, 2019

Jurgen Klopp was “completely happy” with Liverpool’s performance in the Community Shield defeat to Manchester City on penalties, pointing out the character and fight shown by his side will fuel their pursuit of silverware.

Sunday’s showdown at Wembley between the Premier League champions and the continental kings ended 1-1 in normal time with Joel Matip’s header cancelling out Raheem Sterling’s effort. Gini Wijnaldum was the only player to miss his kick in the resulting shootout, which Pep Guardiola’s men won 5-4.

City were slick and more clinical than Liverpool in the first half, but the Reds dominated the second period with eight shots on target to one. A Kyle Walker scissor-kick denied Mohamed Salah the winner on 93 minutes, with goalkeeper Claudio Bravo – who Guardiola felt was the man of the match – thwarting Xherdan Shaqiri shortly after.

“I’m completely happy about the full performance,” Klopp said. “If you want to be prepared for Man City, you have to make a preseason game against Man City; no team plays like them. You saw that in a few moments in the first half, when they can do what they do. We struggled a little bit positioning-wise but that’s normal. We changed that for the second half, which helped us a lot.

“Football-wise, the second half was just really, really good, the best way you can play against City. They are in the early stages [of preseason] as well. They will be in a different shape in a couple of weeks, for sure. But having this amount of chances we had today is a very good sign for us, absolutely. I liked the game a lot. I don't like the result, but I liked the game a lot, so for us it was very, very important.

“We will try everything. It’s not as much important what I could say but what the boys showed today. I thought they looked pretty hungry.” (ESPN)

•Photo shows Jurgen Klopp 

Source Daily Sports

Posted August 5, 2019

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