Jurgen Klopp in Bologna wins, presses, Anfield returns and more

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Jurgen Klopp declared he was “really happy” after Liverpool’s victories over Bologna in two 60-minute friendlies at Evian on Thursday.

The first match saw the Reds win a well-deserved 2-0 victory over their Serie A rivals thanks to goals from Diogo Jota and Sadio Mane in the opening quarter-hour.

This was followed by Takumi Minamino’s match-winning shot from Xherdan Shaqiri’s cross in the second match.

Read on to find out about the president’s ruling on both shows and more of his post-match interview with Liverpoolfc.com…

About offers…

good. Obviously I liked the way we scored goals because [the opponents] He lost the ball easily – I don’t think it was easy, we forced them. Since then we’ve played really good football against a defensively oriented team but I liked a lot of things. Always when we kept the ball, when we had the right pace to pass us and kept them running, it feels really good. In the second game in particular, it was really good. I liked the rhythm we played. You come to opportunities, you have to use them. We had more chances than we did but obviously Taki scored after Shaq’s pass was good. how did you say, [we] He could have scored more than the penalty kick and all that but it’s all right. As long as no one got hurt, how does it look at the moment, it’s been 60 minutes for a long time, 45 minutes for some and 15 minutes for some, so that’s exactly what we wanted to get today. I am really happy.

On the pressure of his team in the matches…

You can imagine we’re working a lot on that. We spoke after the last game, it doesn’t always work out. You are not likely to win balls in that area but it is still the right thing to do. You force them there to make a mistake, they don’t make it – you have to keep pushing them in different areas, to the sideline or wherever and then you win the ball there, that’s fine too. Maybe it’s not just one pass to score but two or three [are] good as well. And you put pressure on the opponent, you can do whatever you want and the other team can’t do what they want. That’s a huge thing about soccer – to feel really insecure or feel really confident. That’s what we try and today it was totally fine. I can’t say anything bad about her, to be honest. I watched a lot of good shows, liked a lot of shows today and that’s good.

Watch: Minamino shoots from Al Shugairi’s cross

About the offers of Kostas Tsimikas and Minamino …

Kostas was really good today, I have to say. This is correct. It was only 45 minutes, that’s fine, Owen Beck 15 minutes and that’s fine too. Taki has had a good pre-season, that’s right – that’s really true. Seeing the quality of Shakiri and all of that stuff, that’s fine. After the middle halves come back, and play soccer, you can see Joey with new long balls left to right to left, which is a nice little feature. That’s fine, we can switch the game faster maybe. Even after a long time, not with all the players who came late, we have to get used to each other quickly and then we have to make sure we are ready for the season. We are not preparing for Norwich, we are preparing for the whole season so we have to see – who will be in what position for next week. We have two more games, which I can’t really wait for – I’ve heard now that they’re almost completely sold out. We only sold 75 percent [of capacity] If you are right. The biggest ambiance and crowd of his game will be ahead of 18 months or so, I’m not quite sure. I can’t wait to get there, to do it and I hope people look forward to it too. That’s fine, let’s play these two games. We are where we are, we judge it, we use it and then we go for it.

On Jordan Henderson’s return to training and the team selection for Anfield friendlies…

Hindu trained today in Liverpool. We have a meeting on Saturday, everything is fine and we will see if he plays a few minutes or not. I haven’t thought about it yet, and it was probably in the second game, but if anyone is worried they picked the wrong game, I can’t say which team A and which team B, to be honest. Today it was the same, we only have good players here and that’s good. Both formations will fit everything, so all is well.

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