Liverpool’s pre-season ended with friendlies in opposition to Spanish pair Sevilla and Las Palmas at Anfield on Sunday.
A capability crowd welcomed Arne Slot for the primary time as his facet tore aside Sevilla 4-1, earlier than drawing 0-0 with Las Palmas behind closed doorways a few hours later.
The Reds rotated their method by way of almost their whole first-team squad in that point, handing most of their senior gamers remaining pre-season minutes earlier than they start their Premier League marketing campaign.
Here is what we realized from Liverpool’s Sunday friendlies.
Such is the unhappy nature of accidents, you would be forgiven for not placing Diogo Jota in your best lineups underneath Slot.
However when he is match, boy does he give Liverpool some good minutes.
Jota introduced Anfield to its ft with a surprising volley to open the scoring in opposition to Sevilla, offering a stark reminder that he stays most likely their most pure finisher in addition to Mohamed Salah.
If he can keep damage free, then Jota will rating aplenty underneath Slot. That is for certain.
It was simply as nicely that Liverpool’s 4-1 win was the pleasant performed in entrance of supporters, as their 0-0 stalemate with Las Palmas proved to be the damp squib of the day.
Throughout that draw, Darwin Nunez regularly drifted away into offside areas when he actually ought to not have and did not present as a lot menace as everyone knows he can.
When Slot was appointed as head coach, a number of experiences claimed he had been particularly tasked with making Nunez a hit on Merseyside. There’s nonetheless some approach to go on that entrance, and fortuitously for Liverpool, it is nonetheless solely August of the Dutchman’s first season and a aggressive recreation has not but been performed.
The breakout star of Liverpool’s pre-season has been midfielder Trey Nyoni, who solely turned 17 on the finish of June.
He continued his summer time exploits with the final aim of the day at Anfield, firing in a scrumptious half-volley to wrap up their victory over Sevilla.
It was a calculated hit through which Nyoni had time to weigh up his choices, however determined to comply with by way of with it and with exact timing as well.
Nyoni’s confidence will undoubtedly have grown this pre-season, and it is thrilling to think about what he may flip into within the 12 months forward.
When Luis Diaz first joined Liverpool halfway by way of the 2021/22 season, he took the Premier League’s collective breath away.
He was dazzling, he was electrical, and he appeared like a suitably Liverpool form of winger, one definitely worth the value of admission.
However damage hampered his first two seasons at Anfield, or a minimum of the physicality that he wanted to be able to play at that marvellous most.
Sunday’s exhibiting noticed Diaz come roaring again with that further edge and added acceleration of his first days at Liverpool, significantly with the primary of his two targets.
That is the participant that has been linked with Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain. That is the participant Liverpool must be maintaining.
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