Pre-Season 2016

[rodo]

moreno`s hamstring has gone mignolet was well mignolet and sounds like the defence was all over the place

[Nicey]

**** off .... Moreno has done his hamstring ??... the curse of LFCs ongoing injury nonsense continues in earnest

[Irishnev]

Just watched the highlights so observations are based on that and it is ONLY preseason. We still look to have massive holes in midfield as most of Roma's chances came from them running through us. If Mig and Lovren are starters then we will drop points due to their errors - neither are near good enough for me. We really need to buy a LB because as decent as Milner is he will get exposed by good teams.

http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2016/08/02/liverpool-vs-roma-highlights-full-match/

[Fosterbloke]

Our attack lacked sharpness and our midfield wasn't compact. I thought Milner was excellent. Manninger made an excellent save in the first half. Mig and Wisdom completely ****ed up to help us concede a second goal.

[labourRed]

**** off .... Moreno has done his hamstring ??... the curse of LFCs ongoing injury nonsense continues in earnest

Dead leg.

[Yozza]

Match report: Reds beaten by Roma in final US outing

Liverpool's three-game tour of the United States ended with a 2-1 defeat against AS Roma at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Monday night.

Goals in either half from Edin Dzeko and Mohamed Salah rendered Sheyi Ojo’s header in the closing seconds of the first period just a consolation.

The Reds, who had previously lost to Chelsea and beaten AC Milan on the trip, now head home for Merseyside and two final friendlies with Barcelona and Mainz.

The pre-match team news confirmed a first club appearance of the summer for Emre Can, while Alex Manninger was in goal as Jürgen Klopp made several changes.

Roma ignored the humidity of the evening to make an eager start to the game, including an early test of Manninger’s reactions when Stephan El Shaarawy sent a low strike towards the bottom corner.

A moment later, the goalkeeper would perhaps have been helpless had Nathaniel Clyne not recovered sufficiently to prevent Dzeko from making the most of Radja Nainggolan’s pass into the area. Instead, his shot went over.

The same man was thwarted on 11 minutes by Dejan Lovren. The No.9 had cut inside the Liverpool defender and created space but saw an effort take the slightest nick off his marker and glide inches wide.

Klopp’s men forged their first real chance on the quarter-hour as Sadio Mane threaded an excellent ball into Daniel Sturridge with freedom inside the Roma penalty area.

The striker’s first touch was ideal and the subsequent dink was goalbound – but Becker Alisson raised his right hand to the perfect position to stop it.

Dzeko did break the deadlock in the 29th minute, though. The former Manchester City man collected a knock forward, turned and drove an accurate, low hit from 20 yards across the reach of Manninger and into the net.

The temperature made an immediate response difficult but the teams did retire for the interval with the score level, courtesy of an equaliser from Ojo in first-half stoppage-time.

James Milner swung a corner from the left side to the back post and Lovren leapt to connect well and head in the opposite direction, providing the Reds youngster with the simple task of nodding home.

Klopp made 10 changes to his line-up for the beginning of the second half, with only Georginio Wijnaldum remaining from the XI that played in the opening 45 minutes.

One of those introduced, Adam Lallana, had a half-chance of putting Liverpool ahead but the Englishman was pressured into missing the target as he collected a cross from the left.

And Roma made Klopp’s charges pay by promptly re-establishing an advantage in the 63rd minute.

Simon Mignolet was able to keep out Dzeko’s close-range header after an inviting delivery from the right flank, but the goalkeeper was immediately beaten on the rebound by Salah.

The Belgian did ensure the match remained in the balance with a reaction stop from Federico Ricci’s daisy-cutter, only for Danny Ings to see the most promising opportunity with a glance from Philippe Coutinho’s free-kick saved.

[Yozza]

On the game…

It was obviously not our best game but games like this can happen. We weren’t compact in the first half and had too big spaces between the positions, so nearly every offensive action of Roma was a chance. It makes no sense. On the other hand, we had a lot of good chances too so it could have been 6-5 to either side at half-time. That may be exciting but is of course not what I want. Sometimes as a manager you have to accept things and tonight I can accept it because I know why. 13 days in the USA and the hardest circumstances tonight at the end, after a lot of intensive sessions and then this wet heat. It was not too easy. We had a lot of games in the last few weeks and the opponent had no games in the last two weeks. We knew all that before the game, so it’s hard. But of course we have to do better in games like this. Tonight it was easy to see what’s wrong; that’s good because it’s easier to change it. We did really well in this pre-season camp – we had a lot of perfect sessions and really good moments in our games. Tonight there were a few offensive situations we played really well and were unlucky or a good goalkeeper or whatever. We didn’t score often enough but I’m happy nobody is injured after this game. It was really difficult for my team to play tonight after this intense time. Now we have finished, hopefully a safe trip, go home to England and build on the base we made here.

On Moreno…

Yes, [he is OK] – dead leg in the hamstring. He couldn’t activate the muscle so you cannot play. That’s how it is.

[Assassin]

**** off .... Moreno has done his hamstring ??... the curse of LFCs ongoing injury nonsense continues in earnest

Has Earnest picked a hammy injury as well

[Phoenix07]

I can't even be bothered to watch the highlights for this. A friendly two days after the previous friendly, meh.

Moreno only has a dead leg, so that's alright.

[Nicey]

Apparently Roma has not played for 2 weeks and it showed ... Any updates on Matip ?

[Chris]

Mignolet is ****ing dreadful. So gutting to be back to that meek, average, barely saves anything ****house after a glimpse of the confident, vocal, dominant Karius.

[Fosterbloke]

Mignolet is ****ing dreadful. So gutting to be back to that meek, average, barely saves anything ****house after a glimpse of the confident, vocal, dominant Karius.

Mignolet reacted like someone had chucked a handful of dog**** in his face for the second goal. Gutless.

[RichC]

He is a worry much like last season. So annoying that Karius is out for the start of the season as I'm pretty sure he'd have been starting as No 1

[Leyton388]

What's the tit done now?

[Alex]

Played in a friendly. The cheek.