The Reds will travel to Wembley on Sunday afternoon to take on Crystal Palace in the annual curtain-raiser to begin the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n
Arne Slot\u2019s Premier League champions take on last term\u2019s Emirates FA Cup winners in a 3pm BST kick-off at the national stadium.<\/p>\n
It will be Liverpool\u2019s first appearance in the fixture since defeating Manchester City in the 2022 edition at King Power Stadium.<\/p>\n
Gakpo previewed the game with Liverpoolfc.com, discussing his impressions from pre-season and the opportunity to open up the season with silverware.<\/p>\n
Read on for the interview with the No.18\u2026<\/p>\n
On his reflections of pre-season…<\/p>\n
I think it was a good pre-season from the team. I think we worked very hard and enjoyed some good games as well. I think everybody is eager to start now this upcoming weekend. I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n
On how the new faces in the squad have bedded in…<\/p>\n
I think we have a good group in general. That makes it maybe a little bit easier to adapt for new players to come in. I think a lot of the players knew each other maybe from playing against each other in the national team or things like this. For example, Jeremie [Frimpong] and Flo [Florian Wirtz] came from the same club. That\u2019s also easy. Jeremie plays with the Dutch boys in the national team and others [have] those kinds of things too. I think they adapted well and quick – hopefully they feel at home as well. It\u2019s good.<\/p>\n
On the new signings getting a first taste of Anfield against Athletic Club…<\/p>\n
It\u2019s always special to play there, even for the boys who play here longer than a few months. I hope they enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds will travel to Wembley on Sunday afternoon to take on Crystal Palace in the annual curtain-raiser…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[607,608,49,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,50,599,604,600,51,47,52,48,605],"class_list":["post-47762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-headlines","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-news","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}