Liverpool will be hoping to make amends against Preston North End this Saturday after The Reds lost their opening pre-season friendly 2-1 to Brondby earlier this week. It will be the second time in the last two years that the sides have met in a pre-season friendly, with the Merseyside club running out 4-0 winners, with Brazilian Philippe Coutinho particularly impressive.
With last year's win, Liverpool lifted the commerative "Bill Shankly shield", and they will hope to retain the crown this weekend. It will be the first time that Liverpool fans will have the chance to see new signing Emre Can line out for the side, having overcome a niggling ankle injury that kept him out of the Brondby game.
The match will represent the last chance for some of the youngsters not participating in the America tour to impress the manager; the likes of Lloyd Jones, Brad Smith, Jordan Rossiter, Kristoffer Peterson, Kevin Stewart and Jack Dunn. Instead, they'll be in Holland with the U-21 side.
Preston won their first friendly 3-2 last time out against Chorley. The League 1 side, coached by former Leeds boss Simon Grayson, just missed out on promotion last season. Grayson told Preston's official website “It is going to be a big test for us, as it was last year when we played them, obviously we are really thankful to Brendan coming back and bringing his team over at the weekend."
“It shows how they enjoyed their game last year in terms of the crowd, the pitch and how well we played against them as well that they were on the phone to try and come back and it’s great testament to our football club that we are managing to get Liverpool again.”
The games kicks off at 3 PM GMT in Preston's stadium, Deepdale. You can view it on LFCTV or LFCGO.
