Valencia travel to Anfield for tomorrow's final friendly ahead of next weekend's opening day visit of Sunderland, with the hosts' defence under slight scrutiny for leaking goals.
The Reds have shipped three goals in each of their five warm-up fixtures this summer, which included back-to-back defeats against Hull City and Galatasaray respectively.
Dalglish admits that his preparations for the new season have been far from ideal but does not feel that Liverpool's summer schedule is a reliable yardstick of his side's true abilities.
"We could have been better but we've had a lot of people coming in at various times," he admitted.
"Everybody that's been with us has got a reasonable amount of time on the pitch because they've all trained really well.
"They need a bit of reward for what they've done in training and then we've got to assess what we need for ourselves going forward and we'll do that.
"We're getting closer to the Sunderland game so we'll get closer to narrowing the squad down a little and being more selective, but we've given everybody an opportunity to try and impress."
He added: "It's a quality team that's coming over in Valencia.
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