Liverpool play the first game of the 2019-20 Premier League season this Friday when they take on Norwich City at home.
The Reds managed to win the Champions League last season by beating Tottenham Hotspur but Jurgen Klopp’s biggest regret would have been missing out narrowly on the Premier League title despite being on top of the table for a fair amount of time last season.
But Liverpool will be hoping to make good the mistakes which they made last season and Wijnaldum has made it clear that they will have to hit the ground running from the very first game.
The Liverpool midfielder told the club recently that the team is not taking this match against Norwich City lightly despite the Canaries making a comeback to the top division.
“I think it’s like that every season,” Wijnladum told Liverpool’s official website.
“You just have to collect as much points as possible, especially in the beginning, and try to build a team who will be even better at the end of the season.
“It was, of course, difficult to prepare a team because not all of the players were back at pre-season.
“That’s the situation we had to deal with and maybe next season will be the same, so we just made the best of it.
“Now everyone is back, we can build and try and do even better than last season. Basically, it starts now because now we have the whole team together.
“But the Premier League and all those other games don’t wait until you have your squad together, so we have to perform.
“We are really excited. We had a good pre-season, it was really hard and tough but we are looking forward to the Premier League.
“I am expecting a really tough game. If I’m honest, I expect that from every opponent because everyone wants to win against Liverpool now because of the success we had last season.
“So if we are not at 100 per cent and don’t give everything that we have, it will be even harder than it used to be. What we have to do is just work hard and try to perform.”
