The Reds will travel to Wembley on Sunday afternoon to take on Crystal Palace in the annual curtain-raiser to begin the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n
Arne Slot\u2019s Premier League champions take on last term\u2019s Emirates FA Cup winners in a 3pm BST kick-off at the national stadium.<\/p>\n
It will be Liverpool\u2019s first appearance in the fixture since defeating Manchester City in the 2022 edition at King Power Stadium.<\/p>\n
Gakpo previewed the game with Liverpoolfc.com, discussing his impressions from pre-season and the opportunity to open up the season with silverware.<\/p>\n
Read on for the interview with the No.18\u2026<\/p>\n
On his reflections of pre-season…<\/strong><\/p>\n I think it was a good pre-season from the team. I think we worked very hard and enjoyed some good games as well. I think everybody is eager to start now this upcoming weekend. I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n On how the new faces in the squad have bedded in…<\/strong><\/p>\n I think we have a good group in general. That makes it maybe a little bit easier to adapt for new players to come in. I think a lot of the players knew each other maybe from playing against each other in the national team or things like this. For example, Jeremie [Frimpong] and Flo [Florian Wirtz] came from the same club. That\u2019s also easy. Jeremie plays with the Dutch boys in the national team and others [have] those kinds of things too. I think they adapted well and quick – hopefully they feel at home as well. It\u2019s good.<\/p>\n On the new signings getting a first taste of Anfield against Athletic Club…<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s always special to play there, even for the boys who play here longer than a few months. I hope they enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds will travel to Wembley on Sunday afternoon to take on Crystal Palace in the annual curtain-raiser…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,1051,13,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1042,1047,1043,14,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-322312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-klopp","13":"tag-lfc","14":"tag-lfc-news","15":"tag-lfctv","16":"tag-lfctv-go","17":"tag-liverpool-fc","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","19":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","20":"tag-liverpool-football-club","21":"tag-mane","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-reds","24":"tag-salah","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981470454354972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}