Jurgen Klopp laments 'too many mistakes' in Liverpool's pre-season defeat to Salzburg

Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool made "too many mistakes" in their 1-0 pre-season defeat to Red Bull Salzburg in Austria on Wednesday evening.

With several first team players including Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, Thiago Alcantara, and Trent Alexander-Arnold on the bench, an experimental Liverpool side found themselves 1-0 down in the 31st minute through Slovenian striker Benjamin Sesko's goal.

New striker Darwin Nunez had an earlier chance to put Liverpool ahead but saw his effort graze the crossbar, while Fernando missed an open-goal sitter for Salzburg. However, the Brazilian midfielder soon made up for his error, playing a first-time through ball for Sesko to score his well-worked opener.

Klopp introduced an entirely new team for the second half, comprising many of his regular XI, but Liverpool couldn't find a way through the Salzburg defence. Luis Diaz had a good chance to equalise but his poked effort was saved by goalkeeper Nico Mantl.

Diaz was again involved when he set up Roberto Firmino but the Brazilian's shot was comfortably blocked by Mantl and Albert Vallci poked away the rebound ahead of Salah. Diaz did have the ball in the back of the net but the goal was chalked off after the Colombian was marginally offside.

Alexander-Arnold then late fly from distance but his well struck shot was acrobatically turned away by Mantl, before Firmino's attempted back-heel from a corner was also saved.

Liverpool had a penalty shout when Diaz went down under a challenge from Youba Diarra but replays showed the midfielder got a toe to the ball.

"First half we made too many mistakes, which they could use," Liverpool manager Klopp said. "We had good moments as well, we could have scored four or five goals at least. Didn’t do