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Arne Slot admits that Liverpool will need to 'adjust' defensively after conceding a concerning amount of goals in pre-season.

There appear to have been teething problems in pre-season which Liverpool will hope won't carry over into their Premier League title defence which gets underway on Friday at home to Bournemouth.

Slot recognises the concerning trend but doesn't believe that the Reds gave up 'that many chances' against Palace until Ismaila Sarr equalised in the 77th minute.



That's the positive.

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"But conceding two; against a good team, by the way, that has made it really difficult for everyone last season and I'm expecting them [to] this season again.

But that's not from open play.

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But after the 2-2 they had [chances], so it needs maybe a little bit of adjustment defensively at the moment because we don't concede a lot of chances but we do concede goals at the moment."

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