Arne Slot believes his Liverpool team are already adapting to his tactical methods
An experimental Reds side skippered by Mohamed Salah were beaten 1-0 by the Championship team in a behind-closed-doors friendly
It was the first game in charge for Slothaving replaced Jurgen Klopp as boss at the end of last season
Slot has spent the last fortnight working with his charges albeit still being without 11 of Liverpool's 14 representatives at the recent European Championships and Copa America.
while lamenting the loss to Robbie Brady's audacious 40-yard lob, Slot was content with the performance of his players
Slot
"We controlled the game completely and only conceded one shot.
“We were a bit unlucky to lose 1-0 given we only conceded the one shot.
"We had some good build-up moments and had some good chances in the first half
“the second half I didn't think we created that much which is normal because there were a lot of young players in the team who didn't play in their normal position sometimes as well.”
"We couldn't have asked more from the boys in the first two weeks. “
“We've worked really hard, tried to implement ideas and it's not that we're only bringing new ideas, a lot of things that have already been done here have been really good."
The fixture is Liverpool's only match before they fly out on Tuesday to the United States
Slot continued
“After two weeks of tough training sessions it's important to play a game as well.
“The most important thing is everybody was fit before the game and they stayed fit during the game as well.”
“It's been a good two weeks. Unfortunately the result today was not what we wanted.
“But they stayed fit, many of them got minutes, also a lot of young players got a few minutes so that was a good thing."
Slot added:
“Every session and every game gives you new ideas where you have to work on.
“But we have to understand 11 players of the ones who played many, many minutes last season are not even in the building yet.
"It's good to see some young players again today showed some good things.
“And the players we have (available) who played many minutes last season, they stayed fit, showed some good things today and in the last two weeks, so that's something to take into our USA tour."
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