Looking forward for tonight. How do these games work tonight? 30 mins only a game? Both on the same channel right? Wonder will one team be full of youngsters and one be full of more senior players.
Most probably a mix in the two games, between seniors and youngsters. It will be fun to watch!
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Probably be a mix of youth and experience in both squads. Could be absolutely anything but for exampleâŚ
Kelleher
Bradley Konate Koumetio Tsimikas
Woodburn Milner Jones
Shaqiri Origi Mane
Adrian
TAA Williams Phillips Beck
Cain Clarkson Chamberlain
Salah Minamino Elliott
Then have the likes of Gomez, van Dijk and the other youth lads have a few minutes later on.
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Yeah didnât he play almost every game
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I think against Innsbruck it will be youths and fringe players. Stuttgart will face a stronger side.
He played every minute of Scotlandâs three Euro games. He may even have been given the same return date as Hendo.
Thatâs what I felt mate. Donât have a clue about the first team but seem weaker. Then again wonder is the main point to try get our best youngsters getting game time alongside senior lads.
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I meant last season
I think the remaining players, if not already sold, will join the squad at Anfield at the end of the month.
Well OK whoever is picked out of the hat before kickoff then! Musialowski maybe.
Iâll leave it to you to google that - not a factoid I know off the top of my head, but yeah pretty much every game!
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Whatâs the code for the free month subscription again?
Never mindâŚ.Found it.
Todayâs view of the pitch. 
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JĂźrgen Klopp has explained why Liverpool will begin their pre-season fixture schedule with back-to-back 30-minute matches this evening.
After little over a week of training at their camp in Austria, the Reds will tackle FC Wacker Innsbruck and VfB Stuttgart in half-hour mini-games at 5pm and 5.45pm BST respectively.
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The manager is delighted to have been able to organise the unusual double-header as a first opportunity for his players to compete against opponents this summer.
And he will be instructing his squad to attack the friendlies with âall we haveâ in an initial step towards building up rhythm for 2021-22.
âIâm so happy we could do that, really,â Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com. âWe usually donât find opponents for that because they say, âWhat would we want with 30 minutes?â
âBut we had a seven-week break; so, not all, pretty much four or five people, but we had a long break, the longest for a long, long time. So we decided not to play too early. We wanted to give ourselves time to get in, to judge the intensity of training constantly, say, âThatâs OK, here we want to do more, here we do less.â We can do that between two sessions, we can do that between two days. Thatâs what we do.
âAnd then you have the first game and after that long time 45 minutes is a tough one. You see that in all pre-seasons when you make 11 changes at half-time and the guys who leave the pitch after 45 minutes are not sitting in the dressing room saying, âWhy did I come off?!â They are really happy.
âI prefer this time that we go just for 30 minutes with really all we have, absolutely pretty much no break. Like you might hear us shouting sometimes in training where we then make these little breaks only but the rest is really just: go, go, go. Thatâs what I would like to see and see where it leads us to.
âIt will not be the most organised, all this kind of stuff â how always. What we need to get back immediately is the impulse for the things we want to do and you can do that in games like this. It could be a bit chaotic or could be a bit wild â no problem with that.
âBut this is the start for us playing-wise and Iâm really pleased we find two opponents who say, âYeah, the 30-minute idea is a really good idea.ââ
Hard work in the Salzburg sunshine
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With a squad of more than 30 players at his disposal, Klopp confirmed he is likely to use two entirely different XIs for the contests.
Asked if intensity is the key attribute he wants the team to exhibit, the boss said: âYeah, absolutely. Itâs a session where itâs 30 minutes â itâs 30 minutes, thatâs a lot but itâs only 30 minutes.
âThat means we donât have to react the next day with recovery or stuff like this; we just put in two sessions the next day and can carry on. But play the game anyway, 11 v 11 against two opponents, with changes and all these kinds of things. Thatâs the cool stuff about it.
âUsually the games are so important in pre-season but they interrupt the rhythm for training. This game doesnât do that â thatâs cool.â
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Going by Kloppoâs words, these should be two very watchable mini-games, with a lot of intensity. Looking forward to it!
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Yeah, Iâm intrigued to see the format itself as much as the team!
Will be two cracking games. 30 mins so both teams will be pressing like mad and attacking to win it hopefully.
