Iraola: After the Manchester City Tragedy, We Must Beat Lask

Andoni Iraola took part in a press conference ahead of Liverpool's match against Lask.

According to "Sports Three", Liverpool continues to work after the heavy defeat against Manchester City, and now it has gone to Austria to face Lask in the European Champions League.

The Reds defeated Atletico Madrid in the first week of this competition, and if they can win this match, they will have very good conditions to continue the competition. However, Andoni Iraola has been forced to keep three key players in England, namely Alexander Isak, Cody Khakpo and Dominic Soboslai. Iraola talked about the conditions of his team in a press conference.

They're not in bad shape, but right now it's hard to tell when they'll be back. We check the conditions day by day. Honestly, I don't know about any of these three players whether they will play against Brentford or Villarreal.

It's true that Cody, Alex and Doom are our top three scorers in the team's system. We don't have them now and they were absent in the game against Manchester City. We need these players to record such statistics for the team.

We trust the players we currently have to play in these positions. Player injuries happen to all teams during national matches. The problem is that we have to adapt ourselves to the situation. Like any other player, Wirtz and Barcola have had good and bad games and will play good games for us in the future.

The high sums paid to sign Barcola and Wirtz?

Bradley had good opportunities, but he could not use them. So did Wirtz.

Poor final 30 minutes against Manchester City?

We played well when we were 11 men, but as soon as we were down to 10 men, they scored. When it's 0-0, you can sit back tighter and defend, but when you fall behind, things change. We wanted to play a bit further, but we weren't very successful in pressing because they always had one more player. For the goals we conceded, it wasn't enough to just defend hard.

This is a must-win race and we want to make as strong a start as possible. Especially after the disaster of the game with Manchester City. We won the first game and it is always difficult to win in these competitions. Choosing the starting line-up for tomorrow's game will not be easy.

The difficulty of creating coordination between players due to the intensity of the matches?

You don't have much time to practice. You are currently trying to prepare yourself for the games. Of course, you have to consider the physical condition and level of preparation of the players. We play four matches in 10 days.