Reading much of anything into pre-season results is largely a waste of time. In the summer of 2019, Liverpool lost to Dortmund, Sevilla and Napoli, then won 26 of their first 27 games in the Premier League season which followed
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things to learn from the summer matches, even 4-0 losses to rivals Manchester United. The Reds’ first game in their preparations for the 2022/23 campaign offered Kopites a chance to see several players with whom they were unfamiliar.
Unless they pay close attention to the academy, fans may not have seen the likes of Isaac Mabaya, Luke Chambers or Bobby Clark before. The performances of new signings Darwin Nunez and Fabio Carvalho were inevitably going to draw greater interest though.
