Gini Wijnaldum insists Liverpool will be ready for their 'tough' start to the 2021/21 season.

The defending champions face Leeds United in their opening game on September 12.

Chelsea away are up next before facing Arsenal, Aston Villa and Everton to round out the opening five fixtures.

"Tough fixtures but we just have to get good results," Wijnaldum told the club's website.

"My first season when I came here it was also a tough start with three away games because the stadium was not ready – this is quite similar. We just have to see how it's going to look with supporters and all that.

"But in the Premier League all games are difficult, especially in the beginning because everyone is fresh. We just have to train good, trying to play the games as good as possible and prepare ourselves for the season.

"We don't know what we can expect. We know the fixtures and everything is tight and that you're going to play a lot games. But I think we will see how tough it is when we are in the situation, when you play game after game. Then we're going to see how tough it is.

"But we dealt with that situation before in some periods in the season. We know how to deal with it but it's going to be difficult. Most periods of the season we're going to play a lot of games. We just have to deal with the situation.

"You just want to do as good as possible and I already said it in my previous interviews that you never know what you deal with during the season. I just hope we can deal with every situation we will get in and make it as good as last season."