Dominik Szoboszlai hails return of key Liverpool ingredient under Andoni Iraola
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SportFootballLiverpool FCAndoni Iraola has already started to stamp his mark on his inherited Liverpool squad on the pre-season tour of AmericaLiverpool's trademark intensity is 'back' under new coach Andoni Iraola, according to midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai.Despite missing many senior players who participated in this summer's World Cup, Iraola has started his managerial era with two wins out of two against Sunderland and Wrexham during the club's tour of the US.Szoboszlai, the club's 2025-26 Player of the Season, impressed in the most recent run-out against the Red Dragons in Nashville, and he believes that his new boss has already brought back one of the Reds' missing ingredients from last season.Speaking at a tour press conference in Chicago, Szoboszlai said: “It’s very good. I think the intensity what we need, it’s here now.
What we have been missing, it’s back from the coach side, from the players’ side as well.“So now we have to put this together with the quality of the players we have and I think it’s going to be quite nice. I think I can talk from everybody’s side that we want to be successful this season.“It is long term.
Obviously we have a new manager, the team has been changed and it’s maybe not in a couple of months, but in the long term I think it will work out.”Iroala has fielded sides largely composed of fringe and younger players in his first two preseason matches, but he will be able to call upon the likes of Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz and Ryan Gravenberch against Leeds United at Soldier Field in Chicago on Sunday.Earlier this month, Szoboszlai committed his future to the Reds by signing a new contract that keeps him at Anfield until 2031. All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageGet Liverpool's new 2026/27 away kitThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it.