{"id":466983,"date":"2011-07-24T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T08:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/24\/dalgish-wants-liverpool-to-step-up-gear-for-looming-friendlies\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T08:52:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T08:52:05","slug":"dalgish-wants-liverpool-to-step-up-gear-for-looming-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/24\/dalgish-wants-liverpool-to-step-up-gear-for-looming-friendlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalgish Wants Liverpool To Step Up Gear For Looming Friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56.3513318934\">\n<div>\n<p>Galatasaray<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Dalglish<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>Hull City<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><abbr title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/english-premiership\/liverpool-0\">Liverpool<\/a><\/abbr> boss <abbr title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/english-premiership\/liverpool\/kenny-dalglish\">Kenny Dalglish<\/a><\/abbr> expects their play to step up a gear this week after defeat to <abbr title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/english-championship\/hull-city-0\">Hull City<\/a><\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for <abbr title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/english-premiership\/liverpool-0\">Liverpool<\/a><\/abbr> is a return to Istanbul to face <abbr title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/turkish-super-lig\/galatasaray\">Galatasaray<\/a><\/abbr> on Thursday night before Monday\u2019s trip to Norway to take on Valerenga.<\/p>\n<p>And Dalglish admits he intends to use those two fixtures as an opportunity to intensify the Reds\u2019 preparations for 2011-12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lads are at various degrees of fitness for the matches,\u201d he told <em>LFC TV<\/em>. \u201cSomeone like Jordan (Henderson) has only trained for a week, so it\u2019s a bit too much to ask him to start the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019ve got a couple of matches in the space of a few days at the end of next week and we\u2019ll make sure as many people as we can get more minutes than they did today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re going to stake a claim for a first-team place, they\u2019ve got to earn it. We\u2019ve given them every opportunity to get themselves fit and try and earn that right to play in the first team, but they\u2019ll need to do better than that if they want it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cOn Wednesday we go to <abbr title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/turkish-super-lig\/galatasaray\">Galatasaray<\/a><\/abbr>, so we\u2019ll see what we\u2019ve got, see if we picked up any injuries or not and take it from there. As I said, we are planning to extend the number of minutes they\u2019re playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/english-premiership\/liverpool\">It\u2019s kicking off again! Click here for your No1 source for Liverpool transfer market news and gossip.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/dalgish-wants-liverpool-to-step-up-gear-for-looming-friendlies\/\" title=\"Dalgish Wants Liverpool To Step Up Gear For Looming Friendlies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dalgish Wants Liverpool To Step Up Gear For Looming Friendlies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Galatasaray Kenny Dalglish Liverpool Hull City Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish expects their play to step up a gear this week after defeat to Hull City . Next up for Liverpool is a return to Istanbul to face Galatasaray on Thursday night before Monday\u2019s trip to Norway to take on Valerenga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dalgish Wants Liverpool To Step Up Gear For Looming Friendlies - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/24\/dalgish-wants-liverpool-to-step-up-gear-for-looming-friendlies\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dalgish Wants Liverpool To Step Up Gear For Looming Friendlies - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Galatasaray Kenny Dalglish Liverpool Hull City Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish expects their play to step up a gear this week after defeat to Hull City . 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