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Andoni Iraola backs backroom staff to help cure Liverpool’s set-piece ills

Andoni Iraola at Liverpool's training centre
Andoni Iraola will take charge of Liverpool for the first time in a pre-season friendly against Sunderland in Nashville on Saturday. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Andoni Iraola has outlined the roles his backroom staff will play in trying to improve Liverpool’s set-piece record next season and admitted he was “very lucky” to inherit a talented coaching team at Bournemouth.

Iraola has brought several members of his Bournemouth backroom team with him to Liverpool since succeeding Arne Slot last month. Tommy Elphick, a boyhood Liverpool fan, and Shaun Cooper have joined as first-team coaches while Iraola’s long-time colleague Pablo de la Torre has arrived as assistant coach. Alejandro Rosalen has taken over as first-team goalkeeping coach after five years with Napoli.

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