Kenny: The kids will learn a lot
Kenny Dalglish believes our U19s will gain a lot from their NextGen opener on Wednesday night despite losing 3-0 to Sporting Lisbon.
Rodolfo Borrell's talented crop of players were defeated by an impressive Portuguese outfit renowned for producing world-class talent such as Cristiano Ronaldo.
A much-improved second-half display from the Reds meant the scoreline was ultimately harsh and Dalglish thinks there are positives to take.
"It's an educational process for them," he told Liverpoolfc.tv.
"It's a great experience for our lads. They'll see and I'm sure dissect the video and educate themselves about how they could improve. That's what it's all about for them - that's why it's called the Next Generation. You're trying to educate and develop them and see how well they progress from there.
"Obviously Sporting Lisbon are fantastic at bringing players through and developing players into the first team, for their own club and for other clubs as well when they sell them on. They're probably as good in Portugal in developing kids as anyone else is.
"It was always going to be a difficult game but I think we're better than we played last night. In the second half we stepped it up a wee bit and there were one or two opportunities which if we'd scored it would have been interesting, we could have put them under a little bit of pressure."
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