Evian Training Camp The Most Important Week Of The Season For Liverpool - Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp insists that Liverpool’s camp in Evian is the most important week of the season after their 0-3 loss to Napoli on Sunday.

The German boss stressed the importance of his team’s trip to France this week before the new campaign gets underway. Liverpool are due to face Manchester City for the Community Shield on Sunday.

“It’s massively important and we are looking forward to it,” he said. “Good results in the pre-season help to build confidence but that’s not the most important thing.

“The most important thing is that you build the physical skills for a long, long season because we have to, pretty much, prepare only for the games. There’s not a lot of time to train.

“We had to do intense sessions in the first three weeks. We played the games in different circumstances. It’s always been clear Evian would be the most important week of the season, and we have five days after City before Norwich.”

Klopp will finally have his entire team together after all of his star players missed pre-season due to international committment.

“Everybody is coming on time on their flights,” he added. “From this afternoon, (Xherdan) Shaqiri, Naby (Keita), Roberto (Firmino), Mohamed (Salah) and Alisson will be in training.

“Sadio (Mane) comes in next week. We can talk an hour about [international scheduling] but it changes nothing so it’s a waste of time.”

Klopp further detailed the problems he noticed during Liverpool’s overwhelming loss to Napoli last weekend.

“We didn’t defend counter-attacks well yesterday, we lost the ball in the wrong moments, and if that happens against Manchester City then you don’t have a chance,” he continued. “What I’ve seen so far, City look good. Apart from Sergio Aguero, I think all the players have been in. It’s the same as last season, Manchester City is the most difficult game to play during a season.

“I don’t want to find excuses before we play them but we had a completely different pre-season, we played it without six players.

“Have we had the best pre-season of our lives? I cannot say that with the results, but the sessions were really good. From a freshness point of view, the games came at the wrong moment.

“The problem is all the games are in public so everybody sees what we’re doing. Some people get concerned, some people don’t. But we have to prove ourselves during the season, not in one game.”

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