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Jurgen Klopp admitted to being surprised by Xherdan Shaqiri's debut in Liverpool as the £ 13m summer signing was a great kick and set Daniel Sturridge's goal in Manchester United's 4-1 defeat.
The Swiss international only joined his new teammates on their US tour Tuesday after a long break after the World Cup. Shaqiri replaced Mohamed Salah at the end of the World Cup Champions Cup and offered an impressive performance in the second half, with a superb final goal in Liverpool's victory
. is not normal after four days.The style of play, "said Liverpool manager." We wanted to help him a bit with the position so that it would not be too complicated. We gave him a lot of freedom, offensively playing natural, in addition to offering races at the back, which he did especially around Sturridge's goal.
"It was better than I was expecting, to be honest, we played over 90 minutes of very good football on very difficult terrain for both teams." and fast, kept them in motion.It was fine.After the match in Dortmund [a 3-1 defeat] I did not feel really well but I knew that I did not have to make it bigger than that. is a pre-season game so if you make mistakes, you should lose.Today, we do not do it bigger of course. "
Klopp added:" For Shaq, at when he signed, he wanted to stay in Liverpool immediately and train with us.I think it was a week after finishing the World Cup, so I said: "No, no no. Go & # 39 ;. He came back a few days ago and he was really excited. For him, it was a very good time in his career, having already had a real experience at Bayern, Stoke and Inter. These are important moments in his career and now we have him and he can play with some really nice football players. "
The Liverpool team flew immediately after the United match and will start a pre-season training camp in France starting Monday.The new recruit Alisson and his Brazilian compatriot Roberto Firmino will join the team in Evian following their holidays after the World Cup.
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