Liverpool star Harvey Elliott cannot wait to play in the Community Shield against Manchester City.

The Reds continued their pre-season preparations this week, playing out a 1-0 loss to RB Salzburg away from home in an intense clash.

Elliott was happy with the run out, but admitted that his eye was already on taking on City in the traditional curtain raiser of the English football season on Saturday.

"It's great to start the season with potentially some silverware," he told the club website.

"Who better to start off with than against City? It will be a great test for us.

"We need to make sure we recover now and reflect on this game, and reflect on how City are going to play and how they are going to come out, and make sure that we're at the races – I'm sure our boys are.

"As I said, they've been wonderful this pre-season and in this game, just hopefully we can put it right at the weekend.

"We are looking forward to it and we're all hoping to get some silverware to start the season off good. Hopefully we can get us some silverware to go into the season all guns blazing, which I'm sure the lads will be.

"Hopefully we can smash it against Fulham and start off the season with a great win. But we're focusing on City now – that's the next game and the next aim's to make sure we go out and win and put things right.

"To be able to play in England again, home soil in a way in front of the home fans in England again, we're all excited and we all can't wait to put on a show in front of our fans."