Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was happy with their preseason friendly win against Karlsruhe.

The Reds won 4-2 thanks to goals from Darwin Nunez, Cody Gakpo and Diogo Jota (2). Lars Stindl and Sebastian Jung struck for Karlsruhe.

Klopp said: "Yeah, the workout was good obviously and you could see it was intense for the boys. I liked in the first half the start, a few other things, but then we became a bit stiff, didn't play as well as we could. The start of the second half when we respect the formation, when we are calmer... I said to the boys already in the second half after 20 minutes, 'I think you played double the passes from the last line into the half-spaces than the complete first half.' Whereas we were waiting, give the ball to Trent, let's see what he can do – and that makes no sense.

"But it's fine, it's early days, that's how it is. But you realise then, 'OK, no, that's not exactly like it works.' But you could see in the second half what Cody, Diogo,

Macca, with the kids right and left what they can do there. James on six together with Kosti, honestly, it's a pure joy, the boy never played that position before in his life. Yeah, last line, good. Good.

"So we win a game 4-2 but you can lose it, of course. They were good, good organised, but they scored two worldies, hey? Wow! And fine. But, of course, that's now nicer [that] the boys have tomorrow the first day off since we started, so let's use that for recovery and then we go again. Yeah, I liked a lot and the atmosphere was good as well. Karlsruher, obviously everybody enjoyed the new stadium – that's how it should be."