The Charity Shield match, which brings together English Premier League champions Manchester City and rival Liverpool, will kick off on Saturday, marking the start of the new football season in England.
The coaches of the two teams stressed the importance of winning this charity shield, as Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola, said in statements before the match, that he definitely wants to win against Liverpool, indicating that achieving the title is better than losing it.
In other statements to Guardiola, published by the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, the Manchester City coach admitted that the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah is an “exceptional player,” noting that he is a player who represents the greatest danger to his team in the match that will be hosted by King Power Stadium, the stronghold of Leicester City, today, Saturday. . However, the Spanish coach said he would try to win the match.
It is noteworthy that City had lost 3 main pillars during the summer Mercato, they are the Brazilian Gabriel Jesus, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko, and the English Raheem Sterling, while he added 3 others, led by the young Norwegian Erling Halland, the Argentine Julian Alvarez and the Englishman Calvin Phillips.
For his part, Liverpool coach, Jurgen Klopp, called on the players to rage after a season marked by great disappointment, losing the League Championship to Citizens by a point, losing the Champions League to Real Madrid, and trying to beat City in their first match this season.
"Anger is important to fight the outside world," the German coach said, and expressed his belief that a siege mentality could help Liverpool find the additional advantage he believes they will need to oust Manchester City this season.
Klopp stressed that there are no guarantees of winning the title this season, noting that all teams will try to defeat Liverpool this season and get even a point from it.
He said that despite everything that happened, and the lack of guarantees of victory or good results, he wanted his team to "create flexibility and a fighting spirit. Feeling angry is important to fight the outside world at this very moment," stressing that his players can improve more during the current season.
Klopp confirmed that his team and Manchester City still did not recognize the new players in the two teams, as his team did not exactly recognize his new player, the Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez, who was attracted from Benfica, as a replacement for Senegalese Sadio Mane, who moved to Bayern Munich, while City is still getting to know his Norwegian player. Halland.
"For us we want to be the team that nobody wants to play against," Klopp said. "But we have to have more consistency and then when we have the ball, we have to come up with new ways."
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