African players abroad Klopp Starts Mane, Salah Keita Against Leeds United

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has named a strong squad that compromises of Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah ahead of their league opener against Leeds United.


The Reds will be aiming to continue their impressive home record when they play at Anfield.


The team list which was released ahead of the game saw Klopp three African players in the starting XI except Joel Matip who is on the bench.

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Salah, Mane and Keita will be hoping to help the kops kick off the new campaign with victory against the Leeds who won the Championship title last season.


Liverpool won 23 games at Anfield last season, a record that they hope to maintain.


Speaking ahead of the league opener, Klopp said as champions, they have a greater challenge from opponents.


“From all the other opponents, probably! It starts with Leeds, carries on with Chelsea, Arsenal and so on.


” There are plenty of challenges and they are similar to all the other years, but there are some other ones as well. 


“So, it’s about we compress a normal season in a shorter period, which will be a proper challenge,

especially with the wonderful rule we set up with 18 [players in the squad] and three [substitutes to make] pretty much.


” It’s only about player welfare, by the way – I wanted to say that, nothing else, but I don’t know why we have to discuss this at all. 


“Like the whole world is doing, at the least the whole of Europe, but that’s how it is. It will just be difficult, but it is always difficult so that’s not new. 


“We don’t have to think in this moment about the whole season, we have to think about Leeds – and that is enough to think about. 


“It’s a Premier League team – new in the Premier League, [but] really a Premier League team quality-wise with a world-class manager and an incredibly intense idea of football. 


“We have to be ready for that, so that’s what I am thinking about and not too much about the rest of the season.”


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