The Reds were without six first-choice players during the entire pre-season.
Liverpool FC played their fourth successive pre-season game without a win and the 3-0 loss against Napoli meant that the Jurgen Klopp's men have lost every game against the clubs from the top five leagues of Europe so far.
After beating Tranmere and Bradford City in the initial phase, they lost 3-2 to Borussia Dortmund, 2-1 to Sevilla and 3-0 to Napoli while drawing Sporting CP 2-2 in between the losses. They play Lyon on Wednesday(31st July) and will kick start their season with the Community Shield game against Manchester City.
Before the Community Shield, Jurgen Klopp insists that the fans should keep their hopes as they did not have a good pre-season tour.
"I don't want to find excuses before we play [City] but we had a completely different pre-season," said Klopp.
"We played it without six players. From a freshness point of view, the games came at the wrong moment."
Alisson Becker, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are absent due to the respective international commitments, while Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri are injured.
"Have we had the best pre-season of our lives? I cannot say that with the results, but the sessions were really good. The problem is all the games are in public so everybody sees what we're doing. But we have to prove ourselves during the season, not in one game."
Manager Jürgen Klopp speaks to the media ahead of the Reds Community Shield clash against Man City at Wembley
"I don't think we can expect to play our best game of the season on Sunday - that's how it is with the pre-season we've had and the long season after it," said Klopp. But it's not about that, it's about winning a football game, and we'll try to do that."
Klopp, who was irritated about the game with City being called a friendly, said to BBC, "I would like to try to win it - it's a final."
"This is the first time I realised that nobody sees it like that, to be honest. 'A curtain-raiser', it's unbelievable."
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