Liverpool’s summer tour of Singapore came to an end after a 4-3 loss to Bayern Munich.
Prior to playing Chelsea in their Premier League debut the following weekend, Virgil van Dijk insists that Liverpool still have “work to do.”.
The 32-year-old, who was named Liverpool’s captain last week, scored a goal against Bayern Munich at the Singapore National Stadium as the Reds lost 4-3.
However, despite jumping out to a quick two-goal lead after the defender added to Cody Gakpo’s second-minute goal and despite leading again after Luis Diaz’s vicious effort just after the hour mark, goals from Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sane, Frans Kratzig, and Josip Stanisic gave the Bundesliga champions a late victory.
After Thomas Tuchel’s team played through Liverpool’s lines far too easily on Wednesday, the first-half goals from Gnabry and Sane, two of Liverpool’s four goals conceded, were thoroughly investigated.
After the game, Van Dijk admitted his team still has a lot of work to do before the Premier League opener the following weekend.
Van Dijk remarked, “So many positive things and areas where we need to grow.”. They are a very skilled opponent, and they will penalize you if you are off guard even for a brief period of time, as happened today. There is still work to be done, and that is what we will do.
“We have the ability to hold them accountable if they misbehave, and we did that. Fortunately, it doesn’t really matter; it’s all about the process, and we need to take lessons from certain experiences. Both the games and the training sessions were very demanding. Every game, we practice set pieces.
“I should sometimes be more clinical, and I’m working on it. We want to compete against these teams and athletes and play at the highest level possible. They occasionally punished us, and that is how things are. There have been significant changes, and preseason is still in progress. “.
On Wednesday evening, shortly after the final horn sounded at the Singapore National Stadium, Liverpool made their way back to Merseyside, completing their overseas preseason.
Jurgen Klopp’s team will face Darmstadt at Deepdale after meeting up again at the AXA Training Center in the coming days, and then they will travel to Stamford Bridge for their first Premier League match of the year on Sunday week.
