{"id":826524,"date":"2026-07-26T04:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826524\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:22:08","slug":"andoni-iraola-on-pre-season-win-over-sunderland-it-will-give-us-a-good-starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826524\/","title":{"rendered":"Andoni Iraola on pre-season win over Sunderland: &#8216;It will give us a good starting point&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the opening goal showing Liverpool&#8217;s intent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was difficult to put rhythm into the game. I think both teams were lacking some freshness and it was also humid. The pitch was quite slow. We had some good spells on the ball. I think we lacked a little bit of intensity. You can feel the timing is still not there. We have to work a lot more but it&#8217;s a starting point.<\/p>\n<p>On his team going after the game to try to win in the second half&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was a matter of using the game to push ourselves and to go back to the rhythm that we should have. You play 45, 60 [or] whatever the minutes you play, use them properly. It doesn&#8217;t matter the result but keep pushing, don&#8217;t relax, get used to not playing too comfortable. We still have a lot of things to improve.<\/p>\n<p>On the players returning for pre-season in the coming days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They are already there in Chicago. They are waiting for us. Alex [Isak], Flo [Wirtz] and Ryan [Gravenberch]. They will start training from tomorrow with us and we still have two more games [in the USA]. I hope we use them properly and we go [forward] improving slowly, slowly the things that today didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the opening goal showing Liverpool&#8217;s intent&#8230; It was difficult to put rhythm into the game. I think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[20702,49,48,20703,2668,20699,20695,20704,20706,20705,739,20698,20697,20694,20701,1521,18010,561,82,20696,20700],"class_list":["post-826524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}