Andoni Iraola has challenged his Liverpool players to embrace the hectic schedule as they prepare for Saturday’s trip to Brentford, their third game in nine days.
Liverpool returned to their training ground at 12:30am on Thursday morning after beating LASK 6-3 in Austria on Wednesday night. Iraola says the intensity is something the club has to manage all season, especially with the Champions League involved, and that there are no excuses.
“This is the challenge of playing,” he told the Liverpool Echo. “It’s competitions like the Champions League and it’s not going to just happen this week, it is going to be a constant thing this season so we have to adapt.”
He added that he expects to rotate his squad again for Brentford, with four games across the next two weeks requiring changes. Iraola still sweats on the fitness of Cody Gakpo, Alexander Isak and Dominik Szoboszlai, who join Conor Bradley, Hugo Ekitike and Giovanni Leoni among the absentees if they fail late tests.
“We need everyone, we will need everyone in one moment or the other,” Iraola said. “Everyone has to be ready because we will need him probably.”
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