Jurgen Klopp says "the most important part of pre-season starts now" as Liverpool headed to their Austrian training base fresh from a 5-0 win over RB Leipzig.
A 31-man contingent flew out from Merseyside to Saxony on Thursday afternoon ahead of a meeting with the Bundesliga outfit at the Red Bull Arena.
In the first of two friendlies in six days, second-half substitute Darwin Nunez scored four after Mohamed Salah's early goal had given the Reds a 1-0 lead at the break.
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Klopp was pleased with what he saw from his charges as they recorded an impressive pre-season victory, but he believes the real work is only now about to begin as his players get set for double sessions daily in Austria.
"We need this time now," Klopp said after the game. "We are not close to where we want to be physically and with the weather and everything, it is difficult. A little bit of Austria is good, we have to work to get through this, we have to work extremely hard and then it will be fine.
"I'm not sure if against Salzburg we will be really fine because we properly go for it, but we will give it a try and the most important part of pre-season starts now."
On the result itself, Klopp added: "I would have bought it [off you] actually! And it's really nice. In the first half, some good moments, some less good moments, not enough movement and we need to get used to how it is to play 60, 70 or 90 minutes. The human body is like this but we'll get used to it again.
"So after a 15-minute break [at half time] we played football again and I wanted us to be a bit harder on ourselves, it's pre-season, but [I wanted them to] move more and second half Hendo (Jordan Henderson) and Millie (James Milner) came on and they were lively like hell. Then we created chances."
The Reds meet Red Bull Salzburg on July 27 before the Community Shield with Manchester City at the King Power Stadium three days later. Liverpool's summer schedule then concludes with a friendly against Strasbourg the following day at Anfield.
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