Liverpool forced to change pre-season plans as Reds hit with travel chaos
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Liverpool are due to play Wrexham in New York on Wednesday during their pre-season tour of the United States, with Andoni Iraola's squad having planned to arrive the night beforeLiverpool will land in New York just hours before kick-off in Wednesday's friendly against Wrexham after the club's pre-season tour was hit with travel chaos. Liverpool are based in Chicago during their tour of the United States and returned there after Saturday's 4-2 victory over Sunderland in Nashville.But ahead of their second friendly, thunderstorms and heavy rain meant that they were unable to arrive in New York on Tuesday as planned.
Latest Reds news and more on our dedicated Facebook pageLiverpool's clash with Wrexham will be played at Yankee Stadium, the home of baseball's New York Yankees. "The three players that are going to join us are going to be [in the] second week fully with us," Iraola told a press conference last week."The ones that were [eliminated] from the World Cup, they all - because of different reasons - have individual days for their arrivals, but I think the sooner we can start working with them and they can understand what we want from them the better.Will Andoni Iraola be a success at Liverpool?
Give us your prediction in the comments section."Individually, I talked with the three of them, they know the main things, but I am looking forward to having them here with the group and to go slowly, slowly with recovering bodies [to the squad]."Meanwhile, Alisson Becker, Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk will start their individual programmes at Liverpool's AXA Training Centre in Kirkby while their team-mates are stateside. "They will, in terms of dates of training, be very similar but they will start training at the AXA in Liverpool," Iraola confirmed."Because of different reasons, especially Virgil because he has been the player with most minutes in Europe I would say, and Cody for other reasons, they are going to start training basically in the same week as the others but instead of making them come here with the team, we considered that it was sensible with them to start the first week training with a small group or even with younger players that are at the AXA and join us when we [return]."Join our LFC WhatsApp community and get all the latest LFC news, views, transfer gossip and more, as it happens We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners.