Liverpool stepped up their pre-season preparations with a pleasant in opposition to Championship facet Preston on Friday, with 25 gamers that includes in a 1-0 loss.
The Reds are nonetheless within the early phases of their pre-season, and due to this fact a warmup defeat to Preston – who themselves have been taking part in their fourth pleasant of the summer season already – needs to be no concern.
As a substitute, the intrigue is extra in who featured, for the way lengthy and by which combos, as Slot fielded two totally different XIs on the AXA Coaching Centre.
The primary half noticed a facet closest to his strongest obtainable, with Vitezslav Jaros in purpose behind a again 4 of Conor Bradley, Sepp van den Berg, Jarell Quansah and Kostas Tsimikas.
Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott and Dominik Szoboszlai – whose minutes have been managed – began in midfield whereas Ben Doak, Fabio Carvalho and Mohamed Salah lined up in assault.
Doak, Salah and Elliott have been among the many largest threats for Liverpool, nevertheless it was visiting midfielder Robbie Brady who netted the one purpose of the sport across the half-hour.
Brady, previously of Hull, Norwich and Burnley, was capable of lob Jaros from 40 yards after stealing the ball within the Liverpool half.
Slot introduced Szoboszlai off quickly after, with Wataru Endo taking his place, and the defensive midfielder was the one participant retained after half-time.
Kids Harvey Davies, Luca Stephenson, Amara Nallo, Luke Chambers, Lewis Koumas and Kaide Gordon have been all introduced in together with extra senior staples in Nat Phillips, Stefan Bajcetic, Tyler Morton and Kaide Gordon.
Owen Beck, Trey Nyoni and Harvey Blair have been launched with quarter-hour to play, however regardless of dominating the sport the Reds noticed few real alternatives.
It is going to be seen as a worthwhile train by Slot and his employees, after all, with the primary warmup beneath their belt forward of a tour of the US.
A lot of those that featured on Friday will likely be included within the squad to journey for clashes with Actual Betis, Arsenal and Man United.
Curiously, there was no involvement for Caoimhin Kelleher, who has not been noticed in coaching of late, whereas Jayden Danns and Andy Robertson additionally missed out.
It had been speculated that Liverpool may play a couple of behind-closed-doors pleasant earlier than flying Stateside, however this now appears unlikely given they’re attributable to journey on Tuesday.
Liverpool first-half XI: Jaros; Bradley, Van den Berg, Quansah, Tsimikas; Jones, Elliott, Szoboszlai (Endo 33′); Doak, Carvalho, Salah
Liverpool second-half XI: Davies; Stephenson, Nallo, Phillips, Chambers (Beck 75′); Endo (Nyoni 75′), Bajcetic, Morton, McConnell; Koumas (Blair 75′), Gordon
