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The Reds were beaten 3-0 by the Italians in Murrayfield, Scotland, while Liverpool had a fourth consecutive winless game.
Liverpool has been repeatedly trapped in the defense despite strong support from Trent Alexander Arnold, Joel Matip, Andy Robertson and Van Dijk.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was particularly unhappy after the first goal, directing some of his discontent towards Van Dijk.
The Dutchman tried to find a runner in the box while his center back, Matip, was unable to overturn Lorenzo Insigne, who had snuggled into the lower corner in the 19th minute.
And the Daily Mirror says Van Dijk did not seem to agree with the badessment of the scenario given by his manager, as the two men exchanged words from a distance.
But the influential defender laughed at the tiff while he was shy about what was said between the two.
When asked what Klopp had told him, Van Dijk smiled and said, "Just things … between him and him."
He then added, "It's not necessary to say it. I think everyone has to communicate with each other. Sometimes you have to tell the truth to someone, it's like that. "
Liverpool's disappointing pre-season campaign has raised concerns as their competitive campaign actually begins this weekend.
The Merseyside squad face Manchester City, the defending Premier League champion, who narrowly ran in the two-horse race last season in the Community Shield at Wembley this Sunday (3 pm).
But Klopp is confident that his team – which has only welcomed the return of Alison Becker, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri to the training of today With Sadio Mane, back next week – will return to form.
However, the German insists that the result of his clash with his rivals City will not be an indicator of the coming season.
"I do not want to apologize before playing but we had a completely different pre-season. We played the pre-season without six players, so I can not stay here saying, "This must be our statement", it would be completely crazy, "he said at a press conference .
"We have to be as good as we can that day, we can not change it. I can not lie to people and tell them "it's not a problem to pre-season without six players". If you have to do it, you have to do it: you have to travel, we have to play in America in difficult circumstances, that's the way it is.
"But we had the best pre-season of our lives? I can not say that and you see it in the results. But the sessions were good, really good.
"The games have come at the wrong time from a freshness point of view, but we can not change that. [and] we must do what we must do. The only problem is that we play all the games in public and everyone sees what we are doing. Some people have concerns, others do not.
"All is well, we have to prove ourselves during the season and not in a match. If I say this must be the season's statement, then I would be a little crazy.
"It has nothing to do with me for the rest of the season. It's a game and if we only had eight players available, for example, I'd like to try to win it. It's a final, it's the first time I realize that no one sees it like that, to be honest: a "curtain lift" is incredible!
"We constantly think about the game and how do we prepare it, and people say," Oh, are they really playing ?! "It's not too cool, but it's like that and we can not change it.
"We'll try to be as ready as possible, that's what I can say, and if we win, well, will that affect the season?" I do not think so. And if we lose that, does it have an influence on the season? This is not allowed.
"Then we still have five days [before the first Premier League game vs Norwich]. We can not risk the players or anything, we have to see who we can align, who will train and who will play, but of course we have to make sure that we have an alignment that gives us the opportunity to win the match and that's what we try. "
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