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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has insisted his players are taking their Community Shield match against Arsenal seriously, contrary to reports that the Reds see the match as just another preseason game.
Liverpool will face the Gunners in their first competitive game of the new season less than six weeks since they played their last game of the previous season.
The Reds won the Premier League title for the first time in 30 years after they defeated every team on the way to winning the competition with 99 points.
Liverpool will want to retain their Premier League title, but will first play Arsenal in the Community Shield.
This is their second Community Shield game in a row after losing to Manchester City in the curtain opener last year and Klopp claims his players may not have had the best preparation, but they are in competition mode before the game and they certainly don’t. come. like a friendly game.
“I would be surprised if we played our best game of the season, but it is not a friendly, it is a proper match against Arsenal,” Klopp said during his pre-match press conference on Friday via Mail Online, before insisting that your team is in a position to be competitive.
He added: ‘Would I like to play a proper game after two weeks of preparation? No. But we’ve known for a while.
‘We don’t have friendlies, we have test matches. It’s a competition and it’s rare that you have the perfect time to prepare for a match. ‘
