Liverpool 2-2 Sporting CP: Jürgen Klopp's reaction

The Reds’ pre-season trip to America concluded on Wednesday night with a 2-2 draw against Sporting CP in the Western Union Cup.

Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum were on target for Klopp’s side at Yankee Stadium, which followed fixtures amid significant heat in Indiana and Boston.

Match report: Reds draw with Sporting in New York

Read a summary of the manager’s post-match press conference below…

On his assessment of the players throughout the tour…

It was an intense time, an intense week, three games in a pretty short period after a couple of days’ training in Liverpool for the boys who were in from the first day, it was absolutely OK; for the others it was maybe a bit too much, but we had to…