Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes youngster Harvey Elliott is continuing to improve.

The midfielder showed his quality for the Reds in the Community Shield against Manchester City on Saturday.

Elliott was also involved in a loss to RC Strasbourg a day later, in a team that featured second string and youth players.

Post-game, Klopp told the club website on Elliott: "We are not surprised about that, we know Harvey now for a long time and he improves every day and that's really important.

"But what you could see today, he could do that after 88 minutes and you saw yesterday a very intense game where we were all struggling, and Harvey didn't look like he struggled at all today physically. That he's a good footballer, it's clear.

"But a player like Harvey needs target players as well and that's what we were lacking today. Fabio's good, all the boys who came on were really good, the kids – Bobby Clark, Tyler Morton again really good, Stefan played a really good game, felt a little bit so we took him off because of that. So many good performances.

"Luke Chambers and Isaac are really good players but they made these mistakes and then it's really tough. Before the game you are happy that 44,000 people are here and when you make a mistake like this, you think, 'It would be better if nobody would be in the stadium.' It's all a process and we know how good the boys are.

"Look in England it's like this, with the system, with the U21s, they play pretty much without crowds and competition – you cannot learn to deal with these kind of things. And today we could give the boys the opportunity to deal with these kind of things. Now they know it, how it feels, now they can use it the next time and that's very, very helpful in their development."