Iraola begins Liverpool reign with pre-season win over Sunderland

 (Reuters) - Liverpool claimed a 4-2 pre-season victory over fellow Premier League side Sunderland on Saturday in Andoni Iraola's first game ​in charge, but it came at a cost after ‌defender Joe Gomez sustained an injury.

Gomez, 29, left the pitch inside the opening 10 minutes of the match in Nashville, with goals from Kieran ​Morrison, Dominik Szoboszlai, Federico Chiesa and Lewis Koumas then ​earning Liverpool the win.

"A lot of things to correct, ⁠obviously, it's the first day. You could feel the heavy ​legs, the players have been training," Iraola said in an interview ​on the club's website.

"So, we lacked some freshness. But it will give us a good starting point to improve things. Probably the worst news has ​been straight away the injury of Joe.

"We were happy because ​we were kind of going through all the training without losing any ‌player. ⁠Unluckily for us, straight away we've lost Joe."

The Spaniard added that centre-back Jeremy Jacquet, whose previous season was cut short by a shoulder injury before his summer move to Liverpool, is likely ​to feature in ​their pre-season ⁠preparations.

"He has been a lot of months without playing with a shoulder injury. So, I think ​we are going to take it easy with ​him," he ⁠added.

"He will play probably the last game of this U.S. tour and he will have time to have minutes."

Liverpool play pre-season games ⁠against ​Wrexham, Leeds United, AS Monaco and ​Como, before their first match of the Premier League season away to Newcastle on ​August 23.