Liverpool must be difficult to beat - Iraola

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Andoni Iraola believes that one of his priorities at Liverpool will be to create "a very difficult team to beat" and says that he is well aware that the fans "just want to see the team play well and deliver good results".Iraola, 44, replaced Arne Slot as Liverpool head coach after the end of last season, when Liverpool finished fifth in the Premier League and lost a club record 20 games across all competitions."For me now, it is about creating a very difficult team to beat," Iraola told reporters in Chicago."The team that I envisage now, that I see and think of - if we become that team - I think we are going to be successful."But you have to do the job. You have to create a team; improve the team.

This creates a connection and you see they win things. They have never been relegated."I see a lot of things [similar to Liverpool].

But in a lot of ways I see a lot of things similar."When you include Mikel Arteta, Unai Emery and Xabi Alonso, four of the coaches of the teams that finished in the top 10 of the Premier League last season all hail from the Basque region."They ask me a lot why a lot of Basque managers especially have arrived to this level and why a lot of Spanish teams are winning a lot of things," Iraola said."I always say that a sense of collectiveness is very important. With the national team, they always say tiki-taka, passing, but even in the World Cup you could see them pressing very well, pressing high."Yes, they controlled the game with the ball, but it's the other part without the ball where everyone was doing their job.