Fans impressed with youngsters in Liverpool’s pre-season win over Tranmere Rovers [Best Tweets]

Liverpool kick-started their pre-season campaign with a win over Conference side Tranmere Rovers. Returning from his ACL injury, Danny Ings scored the decisive goal for the Reds in the second half.

All of Liverpool’s new acquisitions barring Marko Grujic, who is yet to secure his work permit,  featured in the Reds’ first game of pre-season against Tranmere Rovers as Danny Ings scored a second half winner to ensure his side start off a new campaign on a positive note. In his first pre-season in-charge of Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp fielded 22 players through the two halves as he sought to give all his players a run-out having been out of action for over a month and a half.

The Reds’ only goal came in the second half when in the 78th minute captain Danny Ings picked up Alexander Arnold’s brilliant run and pass to fire the ball past the Tranmere goalkeeper’s net.

A lot of academy players had  a chance to showcase their talent amidst the first-team regulars and quite a majority of them displayed immense potential and a penchant for hard work, which is a good sign for Klopp going into the new season. Reds’ fans reacted positively on a day that saw Klopp earn a contract extension, Sakho cleared his doping charges and Liverpool coming away with a win.

Reds fans were, however, most impressed by Ovie Ejaria, an 18-year-old academy graduate who had his first senior outing for Liverpool. He showed a lot of maturity in the way he operated in midfield through-out his stint in the first half and shone more brightly than some of his more illustrious peers.

Manager reactions

Jurgen Klopp

BIRKENHEAD, ENGLAND - JULY 08: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp arrives for a Pre-Season Friendly match between Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool at Prenton Park on July 8, 2016 in Birkenhead, England. (Photo by Dave Thompson/Getty Images)
BIRKENHEAD, ENGLAND – JULY 08: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp arrives for a Pre-Season Friendly match between Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool at Prenton Park on July 8, 2016 in Birkenhead, England. (Photo by Dave Thompson/Getty Images)

Klopp was impressed with Liverpool’s performance Liverpool and talked about the game, his long-term deal and other subjects. Speaking of Danny Ings’ winner he said,”Danny Ings, with his qualities, will score goals in the future – that’s for sure. I can imagine it’s a special day today for him, but after the last year and so on he should not put too much pressure on himself.”

“He should enjoy the game – he needs to get fit after the long, long-term injury he had. You need a long period to get back into 100 per cent shape. Today, it was cool, it was a nice goal and he had other big chances, so I think he will be really happy.”

He also reflected positively on the performance of his new signings stating,”Loris is a good goalkeeper, there is no doubt about this. That’s why we made the transfer! Joel Matip had a little surgery during the break – he had a screw in his ankle – so they had to take it out because it was an old injury. You could see in the first half he couldn’t jump, which is actually one of his big strengths, so he lost one or two headed challenges.”

BIRKENHEAD, ENGLAND - JULY 08: Sadio Mane of Liverpool gets past Jay Harris of Tranmere Rovers during the Pre-Season Friendly match between Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool at Prenton Park on July 8, 2016 in Birkenhead, England. (Photo by Dave Thompson/Getty Images)
BIRKENHEAD, ENGLAND – JULY 08: Sadio Mane of Liverpool gets past Jay Harris of Tranmere Rovers during the Pre-Season Friendly match between Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool at Prenton Park on July 8, 2016 in Birkenhead, England. (Photo by Dave Thompson/Getty Images)

“Sadio was the most impressive player in the first half from the new players because he had really good moments and linked brilliantly with Roberto Firmino, so that was really good and everyone could see it. It’s a good transfer. It looks like we have [made] a few good transfers.”

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