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Connor Dunn

Liverpool's sign of things to come as Jurgen Klopp makes trophy vow after Community Shield defeat

Jurgen Klopp has backed his players in their desire to win more trophies with Liverpool this season.

The Reds will enter the 2019/20 campaign as European champions after claiming the Champions League trophy in Madrid in June.

There will be a burning ambition up and down the ranks at Anfield for the players and manager to bring home the club’s first Premier League trophy in the upcoming term to add to the glory of last season.

And the German boss believes his squad showed a hunger to do exactly that after transforming their second-half performance to equalise against Manchester City in the Community Shield on Sunday.

Relive all the action from Liverpool's Community Shield clash with Manchester City in our match blog HERE

He said: “We will try everything.

“It’s not as much important what I could say but what the boys showed today.

“I thought they looked pretty hungry.

“That doesn’t mean it will work out but we fought today after all the things that were said about the competition, both teams wanted to win it desperately, I saw that.

“My team is not in doubt about being satisfied or whatever, to stop working or stop running.

“The character of the team is still incredibly good.”

The Reds turned out an excellent second-half performance at Wembley as Joel Matip scored to cancel out Raheem Sterling’s early goal before the trophy was clinched by City 5-4 on penalties.

“We had a difficult pre-season but the boys did what they had to do and were affected by it,” Klopp added.

“We played football games against really good teams and that didn’t feel too good.

“It was very important we all gave ourselves and our supporters a sign of the performance today.”

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